Sentence examples for his rigidity from inspiring English sources

But his rigidity, coupled with an abrasive arrogance, has been counter-productive.

He is fenced in by his rigidity and by the work ethic he learned at his cruel father's knee.

His rigidity reflects his failure to prepare Palestinian opinion for anything less than full sovereignty over East Jerusalem.

Che Guevara was literally the embodiment of the romantic notion that unyielding dedication and unceasing struggle could achieve the liberation of all the world's oppressed, and this is such an attractive idea that one may prefer not to dwell on his humorlessness, his rigidity, his icy ruthlessness.

His rigidity on the strike could have been a political maneuver; next year Turkey will elect a president for the first time, and there is speculation that Erdogan can get the job by appealing to conservative nationalists who are very tough on Kurdish rights.

Chidi, in fact, was cast into the Bad Place because of his rigidity and inability to make any decisions.

Historians have criticized [President] Polk's lack of creativity, his gray imagination, his intellectual rigidity, his inability to think outside the box.

The risks now are that his reaction to the past clouds his judgment and that his intellectual rigidity again becomes a constraint.

But then Scolari is for all his tactical rigidity, brilliantly shrewd in his managing of star players.

His new rigidity is as fake as his old capaciousness.

Even a sympathetic reading of Alceste can't deny his extreme rigidity, or the darkness of his worldview; he has been compared to Hamlet as a truth-teller in a house of deceptive fools.