"He was a very rigid man with very rigid ideas.
His vision of a humane religion is one that's achieved through the trials of a fierce, hardened, rigid man who has to wrestle with the vengeful and unyielding God within himself.
In the catalogue accompanying her Four Dimensions exhibition, Han said: "Postmodernism accepts the facts that art does not follow any rigid man-made rules.
Presumably higher powers had intervened, or perhaps Justice Hughes himself — a rigid, unsmiling man whom Theodore Roosevelt had nicknamed "the bearded iceberg" — had pulled strings.
More than anything, he has shown he can move away from the "dark age" tactics and his reputation as a rigid 4-4-2 man.
But as more puzzle pieces fall into place and we learn more about him, he's not just a rigid, gruff man.
The idea is to transform the prevailing culture and images of the dominating and rigid man to ones where the man can still be a man in different ways, more connected to their humanity and their environment.
Setting out with a rigid five-man defence was an indication that they were here to contain their opponents for as long as possible.
This is because the acceptance of Darwin's theory of evolution was at the expense of the ideas of the French philosopher René Descartes, who held that there is a rigid distinction between man, who has a soul and can think and speak rationally, and all other animals, who are mere automatons.
In his own performance of Bheeshma, Khan has utterly denatured the silken fluidity of his usual dancing style; instead, he moves with the stiffened gait and crude force of a rigid, battle-proud man who has made himself immune to the influence of women Chien's Amba, by contrast, is an elusive, protean figure.
By contrast, Jack Lithgow is an emotionally muted man with a rigid, monochromatic view of the world.
