Sentence examples for like a rigid from inspiring English sources

The polar liquid does not move like a rigid body, the particles rearrange.

This description may make the technique sound like a rigid methodology, but Schoenberg found it liberating.

The church seemed like "a rigid institution dictating impossible norms to follow, an overly severe mother," said Lucetta Scaraffia, a scholar of Catholicism in Rome.

As a result, the Gyricon prototype was more like a rigid, expensive electronic clipboard than a bendable, cheap sheet of paper.

He leaned against the bronze to take off his shoes, then slid down several steps over his red robe, his muscular, lean body contorted like a rigid embryo.

His left hand is in an almost permanent state of tension, looking like a rigid claw, and despite Haitink's best efforts, he never gets rid of it.

Optical thin films of three rod-like polymers, a rigid-rod polymer poly p-phenylene benzobisthiazole) (poly p-phenylenentane-subenzobisthiazoleDMT-PBZT) and a bicyclo[2.2.2]octane-substitutediadamantane-substitutedfferent thicknesses were prepared with the soliDMT-PBZTcoagulation process.

Playing a role, like taking a rigid moral position, freezes the mind.

Architecture seems like such a rigid job, and yet he would literally change plans in construction.

These pancake-like discs have a rigid exterior wall made of collagen, but are filled with a gel-like liquid called the nucleus pulposus.

The GpgS active site resides between the two subdomains (Fig. 1b), and while the Rossmann-like subdomain provides a rigid framework for nucleoside binding, movement of the loop connecting strand β8 with helix α9 is observed in order to accommodate the phosphate groups of the ligand (Fig. 4a).