Sentence examples for lie rigidly from inspiring English sources
Gilbert & George's photograph In Bed with Lorca, in which the artists, in their trademark suits, lie rigidly on Lorca's bed, will be in the same room.
Youngblood says that Silva then "took a rigid stance" – the word stance in this case actually meaning the exact opposite because Silva seems to have been lying "rigidly" on the ground.
The historical background to Tyrtaeus's poetry lies in the rigidly egalitarian ethos of the Spartiates (warrior citizens of Sparta) and in the practice of hoplite warfare (in which the courage and the disciplined resistance of the individual warrior inside the ranks determined the solidarity of the phalanx and thus victory).
The nodes of the plane stress strain elements that lie in the adherend adhesive interface are rigidly linked with the nodes of the beam elements, resulting in the offset nodes which coincide with the midplanes of the adherends.
Her long tail, usually carried aloft in a curve, stretches rigidly out, parallel with the ground; her ears lie back, her head cranes forward, and a mild, meditative look settles on her face".
Once again, lie, lie, lie. .
Be prepared to lie, lie, lie.
Like their predecessors, Greek astronomers adopted the natural picture, from the point of view of an observer on Earth, that Earth lay motionless at the centre of a rigidly rotating celestial sphere (to which the stars were "fixed"), and that the complex to-and-fro wanderings of the planets in the zodiac were to be described against this unchanging backdrop.
