Sentence examples for fixed and rigid from inspiring English sources

So the utopian figure is saved from being fixed and rigid.

The pathways of the brain were seen as fixed and rigid, like a railway network, and later as a telephone exchange.

"Opposing pressure," or "backing off," is required for virtually any fixed and rigid pipe, but it is especially critical when working with older pipes and nuts that require some muscle to remove.

"Many healthcare workers are employed on fixed and rigid schedules first of all, then they get paid terribly," Tee explained.

Current UAVs are somewhat restrictive in that they have fixed and rigid wings, which reduces the flexibility in how they can fly.

Every now and then "something will occur which my philosophy has not dreamed of," Thoreau says, which demonstrates that the "boundaries of the actual are no more fixed and rigid than the elasticity of our imaginations" (Journal, 5/31/53).

Certainly, we do need to fix the rigid requirements for Medicaid and Medicare payments.

With a neat twist of logic, he declared his course would "save" the dunes by arresting their movement, fixing them rigid with artificially planted grasses.

Establishing flexible or market-based limits, instead of fixing in place rigid caps, would have made a great difference.

Unlike them, however, he never adhered strictly to the conventions of the formes fixes – the rigid and complex repetition patterns of the rondeau, virelai, and ballade – instead he often wrote his early chansons in strict imitation, a feature they shared with many of his sacred works.

For simulation the No. 1 VELACS ClASS B experiment, boundary conditions are fixed in the four sides and rigid in the bottom of model.