The phrase "a rigid tradition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a tradition that is strict, inflexible, or resistant to change.
Example: "The community has always adhered to a rigid tradition, making it difficult for new ideas to take root."
Alternatives: "an inflexible tradition" or "a strict tradition".
But as generations passed, that culture became a rigid tradition, representing a history that some people wanted to escape.
Even among the new breed of fado singers, which has dared to deviate from a rigid tradition, Ms. Moura is a distinctly worldly superstar: stylish, expressive, determinedly open-minded.
Federal law prohibits the Census Bureau from cooperating on such a venture, and the bureau's own rigid tradition of nonpartisan service would likely incite a revolt were it ordered to.
By participating in marriage, LGBT folks are finding kindred experiences with many straight folks who share in a queer approach to marriage, one that celebrates individuals and individual couples rather than a rigid position, tradition, or dogma.
I arrived on campus with the perception that the legacy of Princeton was one of prestige, rigor, achievement…and rigid tradition.
Japanese tattoos are steeped in thousands of years of history and bound by rigid tradition and social mores.
Unlike the more celebrated Atlantic salmon, whose scarcity and moodiness in taking a fly has resulted in elegant but rigid traditions, fishing for silvers here along Prince William Sound has a far more relaxed feel.
But the Bolshoi has its sometimes rigid traditions, and it is in somewhat of a limbo because of the reconstruction of its Moscow theater.
Citizens were autonomous individuals not creatures owned and controlled by rigid traditions".
Citizens were autonomous individuals with not creatures owned and controlled by rigid traditions.
Suddenly, it must find ways to relax its rigid traditions in order to make the economy grow.
