It's very difficult for anyone who's been rigidly trained in a certain style of dance. |
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If too rigidly enforced, the existence of copyright could become a tool for censorship or a bar to the free circulation of ideas. |
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It was written by her husband, yet its style was rigidly formal, consistently using her surname alone. |
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The research methodology was highly sophisticated, carefully controlled, rigidly conducted, and verifiably sound. |
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These clients rely upon the company to develop quality, competitively priced products in accordance with rigidly monitored specifications. |
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There were strong reactions against the style of the rigidly symmetrical, simplified classical design. |
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His story parallels that of Oliver Twist, trapped in a rigidly stratified society and at the mercy of its caprices. |
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Sometimes he sticks perhaps a little too rigidly to the composer's precise notation. |
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The journalist confronts her rigidly traditional parents with the news that she is pregnant and plans to raise the child alone. |
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His renewed interest in Giotto resulted in more rigidly constructed compositions with fewer concessions to descriptive detail. |
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As an essayist, he sets himself apart from rigidly academic criticism and theory and relies on a variety of unconventional references. |
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Balanced between neoclassicism and romanticism, the composition appears at once rigidly stable yet inherently fluid. |
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His armed were pinned down at his side, his legs locked rigidly parallel of each other. |
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Because the arm muscles are not rigidly locked the trigger finger can operate with greater speed and precision. |
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Yet surely poetry in a world as richly diverse as ours need not be so rigidly and simplistically categorized. |
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Like Ines and Susana, Beatriz takes refuge from a rigidly structured, unaccommodating, and cruel world by alienating herself from it. |
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First, the overall mode of state functioning, policymaking, and governance is top-down, nontransparent, and rigidly hierarchical. |
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When I broke in back in 1986 as a play-by-play announcer, the position was pretty rigidly defined. |
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In those arenas in which segregation was either law or custom, it was applied strictly and rigidly. |
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They have rigidly stuck to the same formula, devoid of originality or innovation, and bored everyone silly in the process. |
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Nevertheless, eighteenth-century writers did not conceptualize human diversity in rigidly hereditarian or strictly physical terms. |
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As in other highly militarized states, Aztec society was rigidly hierarchical and extremely punitive. |
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It has oval leaves and reddish-orange berries on long branches that have until recently been rigidly tied in against the wall. |
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But the logic applies rigidly only in perfect markets, with perfect information, flexibility, liquidity, and substitutability. |
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So I immediately wrote this off as yet another attempt by geeks to cope with the social chaos of everyday life by rigidly systematizing it. |
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Despite his living in a rigidly patriarchal society his strongest and most memorable characters are all female. |
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I believe that a rigidly Patriarchal culture cannot tolerate the empowered creative voice of Women. |
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Previously, all western religions, even the masons, had been rigidly patriarchal. |
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He rigidly walked forward, his jaw clenched as he fought with the nausea tightening his stomach. |
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Standing rigidly by a decision which is wrong, or ill-judged, is obviously tempting, but in the long term is likely to be counter-productive. |
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Alternatively, if I give up the make-believe and stick rigidly to the truth, I've a fighting chance of making my late sixties. |
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That doesn't mean you have to like it, but music this stark and astringent seems astonishing in these rigidly conformist times. |
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The Labour Government rigidly stuck to Conservative spending targets in its first two years of office. |
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For one, it is even more rigidly unable to cope with changes in the pool than an old industrial firm coping with an intransigent union. |
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To allow movement from thermal and other forces, the roof is not fixed rigidly to its supports. |
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How rigidly people follow the rules may depend upon how strictly the rules are enforced. |
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Ladies are reminded that the regulation prohibiting unprotected hat pins projecting from hats will be rigidly enforced. |
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It may free men and women from performing their constricted gendered roles that are dualistic, rigidly defined, and ultimately destructive. |
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Accelerations were measured using accelerometers mounted rigidly to the vehicle and connected to a data logger. |
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Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies. |
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What he disliked most about the Church was the association between its rigidly enforced doctrines and its historic political aspirations. |
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Under totalitarian systems, the regimes are conservative, and aesthetic expression is rigidly controlled. |
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The concert hall is a gerontocracy, its decorum enforced more rigidly than in places of worship, its exclusiveness innate. |
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Without rigidly enforced property rights, dispute settlement procedures and boundaries for what is tradeable and what is not, there could be no effective system of trade. |
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In clarifying the ontological implications contained in music, he compares three of Bach's works, all three being reduced to single, rigidly uniform types. |
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The captain stands rigidly as the hull rolls into the waves. |
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Call me rigidly European, but it offends my sense of food order. |
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One of the admirable things about Secretary of State John Kerry being his rigidly logical mind. |
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Lateral wind loads are taken up by secondary internal tensile nets rigidly connected to the planar assembly by a series of tension and compression rods. |
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Their voices amplified by PA systems, the protests' leaders exhort their audiences with rigidly ideological slogans. |
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Discussions are sometimes abusive and unpleasant, and often sterile and unproductive, with most people adhering rigidly to their long-entrenched prejudices. |
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If the road traffic law were rigidly enforced the railway might hope to obtain a large amount of business which now goes to motor trucks and omnibuses. |
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These systems are often rigidly organized and protective of their members. |
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Gabe sat up rigidly and attempted to help Sara through a frame that was about two sizes too small for someone with as impressive of a bust as her. |
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There is also a danger that, if too rigidly enforced, the existence of copyright could become a tool for censorship or a bar to the free circulation of ideas. |
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She remembered walking rigidly up the stone steps in her white lace, with the stockings too tight and the white shoes pinching and the back of the dress itchy. |
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I got up, without my plate, and stood rigidly and rebelliously in my spot. |
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Before the 1990s this genre was practiced on a rather small scale, not least because of political repression and a conservative, rigidly regulated bureaucracy. |
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One of the core tenets of republicanism is equality of treatment, and this should apply rigidly to all areas of government activity throughout Ireland. |
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Soon, she was flipping out her hands and shaking her hips rigidly as if her body parts were attached with strings and the evil DJ was controlling them. |
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Imagine the escapement-wheel of a common dead-beat clock to be mounted on a collar fitting easily upon a shaft, instead of being rigidly attached to it. |
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By applying rigidly its own standards of membership, it came to wield an important, if not decisive, economic influence on the profession of artist. |
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If you'd rather be fluid, flexible and unruffled than frustrated, flustered and furious, don't get too rigidly attached to particular structures or specific results. |
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A snubber is provided adjacent the disc, the snubber having a body portion rigidly affixed with respect to the disc and snubber arms connected to the body portion. |
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The two shell valves would have been rigidly fixed in place, and the dorsal margin could not have been more than a poorly elastic structure, if that. |
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The informal tables and chairs are decorous spillovers from the rather more rigidly organized cafeteria which looks over the space through a glass wall. |
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Founders of urban ecovillage projects must usually forego any dreams of straw bale or cob structures, because building codes often are rigidly enforced. |
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Aside from the high-concept premise, the film's plot is a throwaway, a rigidly routine story involving a Latin American drug lord and some high-powered weapons. |
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For the moment hordes of visitors tread warily around it, even though it's fenced off and held rigidly in place by massive steel cables attached to an unattractive girdle. |
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High-minded pursuits dovetail with rigidly disciplining your body. |
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A fibrous layer deep in the breast muscles can hold the wings rigidly horizontal for gliding and soaring. |
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Furthermore, the separation of tense and aspect in English is not maintained rigidly. |
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The actual programme may be very rigidly prescribed by employers or be entirely freely chosen by the student to meet particular needs. |
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A single point cutting tool is held in the tool holder which is rigidly held in the tool holder, which is mounted on the ram. |
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The work piece is rigidly held in a vice or clamped directly on the table, the table may be supported at the outer end. |
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James has a wife and family whom he keeps rigidly out of the way in Cambridge, from which he commutes to his untrendy flat in London's Barbican. |
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A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts. |
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The motivation of orthorexics stems from a longing to feel pure, healthy and natural by pursuing a rigidly healthy diet. |
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From this point of view it makes no sense to stick rigidly to the idea of our own bodyhood as something with bounded extension in space. |
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The dominant approach is that rules are not to be applied rigidly because the overriding goal is to interpret the statute in accordance with the intentions of Parliament. |
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