Sentence examples for for being rigid from inspiring English sources

Most flows from the mistakes made in the first heady wave of Czech capitalism, when Czech leaders portrayed themselves as devout believers in free markets and chided Western European governments for being rigid and bureaucratic.

Dr. Hornsby, the former superintendent from Texas who was often called "brilliant," even by his foes, was just as often criticized for being rigid, autocratic and out of touch with the sensitivities of this city (not to mention its strong teachers union), which has been mired for more than a decade in a battle over how to close the gaps in achievement between white and minority students.

"There was this sudden rigidity for the sake of being rigid that just made no sense to me," Ms. Nelson said.

I think conservative chicks get a bad rap for all being rigid, corny, and unstylish Stepford marms.

The timetable for visiting bands is rigid.

The creations belong to a class of structures known as metal-organic frameworks — MOFs, for short — that are rigid and porous.

Many current solutions for body tracking are rigid and weird, like exoskeletons that fit onto your knuckles or stopwatch-sized trackers mounted inside athletic garb.

The right leg is lifted in a dance step, while the left, toes curled inward for better balance, is rigid.

Most instruments that are used for that purpose are rigid and suffer from floor and ceiling effects when used in patients whose physical function differs from the average.

Ms. Schenkar, who is also a playwright, confessed that for two years she was "rigid with hatred" for her subject.

And there can evidently be terms for concrete objects that are rigid but not causally grounded.