Sentence examples for appears to be rigid from inspiring English sources

It is made from latex that has been painted in layers over a plaster mold, and so, although it appears to be rigid, it is actually hollow and pliable.

The lateral tarsometatarsal joint appears to be rigid [9], suggesting the presence of the long plantar ligament, another important soft-tissue component of the longitudinal arch.

Retracting the Ub C-terminus would extend the phospho-Ser65 containing loop (aa 62 66), which in the hetNOE data appears to be rigid, suggesting that pSer65 forms new interactions on the Ub surface.

Definite descriptions, in contrast, do not appear to be rigid: the definite description 'the last great philosopher of antiquity' might well refer to (or 'denote') Plato in a world where Aristotle dies in infancy.

The PN1/PC2 repeat appears to be a rigid unit throughout the LTO conformational cycle.

Likewise, the structure of the matrix arm appears to be more rigid compared with complex I in isolation, because extensive subclassification to account for different angular orientations of the matrix arm, as in negatively stained complex I (Radermacher et al, 2006), was not necessary.

Therefore, under certain conditions, very young infants' memory appears to be far from rigid and specific.

Of these synthetic ligands, the general trend in design appears to be away from fully aromatic rigid structures to those containing partial elements of the flexible tetraene side chain of 9-cis-retinoic acid.

The rigid lattice limit appears to be below 260 K.

The helically arranged diamond pattern appears to be a coordinated deformation morphology of the rigid inner walls and compliant outer walls in the MWCNTs.

And the position appears to be open to nominalism: along with defenders of rigid application and everyone else, nominalists recognize the legitimate application of general terms.