Sentence examples for as a pliable from inspiring English sources

The drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting.

She certainly gets little help from Mr. Maybury, who mostly seems interested in her as a pliable object, a mannequin he can pose and paint.

The hero, regarded by everyone as a pliable patsy, finally breaks loose of his mother's influence and disappears on a bender.

But the real coup was securing support from trade-union bosses, who wanted to thwart the "Blairites" at all costs and saw the younger Miliband as a pliable instrument to that end.

The deep layers serve as a pliable, vascularized intranasal lining.

The chest wall consists of the anterior and posterior thoracic cage and the diaphragm, which serves as a pliable separation between the abdominal and thoracic cavities [31].

Lars too is a doll, as pliable as Bianca and just as phony.

Only today the government nominated János Áder as president; Mr Áder, a Fidesz loyalist, may prove just as pliable as Pál Schmitt, his predecessor, who recently resigned after a plagiarism scandal.But how many more transnational organisations would like to tell Hungary what to do?

Alexandra Fuller describes herself as a "reasonably pliable witness" to her mother's dramatic life.

But Mr. Eyre's production convincingly stakes a claim not only for Ms. Cattrall as a skillfully pliable actress but also for the bubbly pleasures forever on tap in "Private Lives".

Though they cast Boreman sympathetically – Seyfried plays her as a passive, pliable victim – the filmmakers let the camera linger on titillating shots of her naked nubility, and showed graphic scenes of oral sex.