Colin Davis, conductor of the BBC Orchestra, bravely shouldered the mantle of Sir Malcolm Sargent last year, but he has made it plain for some time that he was impatient with the "Last Night of the Proms" ritual in its old, rigid form.
One lasted four days, and when, finally, it died Fide held its rigid feathery form in his hand and said, joking, "It's in the sky now, asking God for bread".
Though household labor has evolved from its rigid historical forms, a new chapter of the period drama for the era of globalization has emerged in New York's rarefied diplomatic scene, with curious case of Sangeeta Richard, the domestic worker of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.
Part of the difficulty when you're casting a rigid form, like a camera: it retains its shape when you add other material onto it.
When it was immobilized, a more rigid form was acquired because of covalent linkages to the support.
They associate it with archaic grammar, rhymes, rigid form.
It is the outcome of a very rigid form of informal control (Goffman, 1967) operating in public places; ethnomethodologists would argue that the preservation of orderliness matters more than the communication of meaning (Jenkins, 2009).
I love journalism, it's what I am, but I try and push it a bit, away from that dry, rather rigid form".
The bridge's curvilinear design gives it a flowing, natural look, instead of the linear, rigid form of standard bridges.
