Sentence examples for face a rigid from inspiring English sources

David Hyde Pierce exemplifies the Buster Keaton principle of comedy: If you begin with a poker face, a rigid posture and an attitude of wary passive aggression, all subsequent body language becomes explosively expressive.

Actually, this configuration of two facing elastic half-spaces is equivalent to a single elastic half-space with equivalent elastic moduli facing a rigid block as discussed in Batrouni et al. (2002b).

It could be anything between 40 and 80; her face is a rigid surgical mask: any expression not sliced away by the scalpel has been frozen with Botox.

A portly fellow with a looming, affable face and a rigid discus of silvering hair, Barbour has already shed 20 pounds during his summer on the hustings.

When Jay Leno asked him on "The Tonight Show" how he could remain a friend of the president while distancing himself from the Lewinsky affair, the vice president's body tensed, and his face became a rigid mask.

If Sara the Moose Killer would take a quick look in the mirror, she would see that her winking, obnoxious visage is the face of a rigid, unthinking, uninformed, incompetent ideologue who has no place on the national scene.

The studies show that, there is substantial reduction in the front face displacements of a rigid wall.

Lay face-down in a rigid, straight position.

Among those companies in that minority is Ryan LLC, which decided a few years ago to move from a rigid face-time environment to one with much greater flexibility.

A series of plane-strain model tests was performed to investigate the behavior of cantilever soil retaining walls (CWs) and geosynthetic-reinforced soil retaining walls with a rigid facing (GRS-RWs) placed on non-deformable and deformable foundations with various subgrade reaction moduli (kv).

Don't Tell the Bride is the same, time after time after time, a Groundhog Day if Groundhog Day had a rigid faced mother-in-law saying "if he breaks my princess's heart I shall kill him".