Sentence examples for lack of pliability from inspiring English sources

The teen-agers back away, either puzzled by his hostility or merely discouraged by his lack of pliability.

Also, some of their chatter — not filtered through Marcus's narration, as it is on the page, but delivered straight — has a half-archaic stiffness ("I, who have eight thousand moods a minute," Olivia says), and that lack of pliability extends to the entire tale.

The appearance of the skin and hair may indicate dehydration by lack of pliability and lustre; or the presence of parasites such as lice, mites, or fleas; or the presence of ringworm infections and allergic reactions by the skin changes they cause.

She is conscious of the "stickiness" of attention in herself, so that there is great tenacity on the one hand but a lack of agility and pliability on the other; she ascribes this to a defect in her cerebellum, the fact that (as an MRI has shown) it is below normal size in her.

This includes deficits of closure as well as mucosal wave irregularities secondary to abnormal zones of pliability and symmetry.

Throughout his life, Mr. Soto, the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Navajo mother, had also demonstrated that he had an ample supply of pliability and perseverance.

The key is to warm up the muscle and then push its limits in terms of pliability and range of motion.

You'll know the rosemary is dry when all traces of pliability are gone from both stems and leaves.

But the pliability of that number also says a great deal about Romney's world view the transitive property of wealth and will make it hard for him to say (though he tried) that he was only talking about his lack of concern for votes, not for lives.

But the pliability of that number also says a great deal about Romney's world view — the transitive property of wealth — and will make it hard for him to say (though he tried) that he was only talking about his lack of concern for votes, not for lives.

Lack of effort, lack of concentration".