The teen-agers back away, either puzzled by his hostility or merely discouraged by his lack of pliability.
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 resulting scaffolds achieved the desirable levels of pliability (elastic up to 10% strain) and proved to be capable to promote cell growth and proliferation.
SOMEONE trying to describe Jock Soto and Luis Fuentes — and their relationship — might turn to Washington Irving and his description of Ichabod Crane: "a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance" and "yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke".
Mr. Neville, who will turn 72 this week, has built his vocal career on the dual impression of pliability and sincerity, whether he's singing gospel or funk or swooning ballads or heartstring-tugging country songs.
What Bergson deplores is encrustation — the way in which we dry and stiffen up, taking ourselves, our poses, and our beliefs so seriously that they sap us of pliability, poise, and goodwill.
Moved only by generous, noble sentiments, she has a near angelic, that is, archetypically feminine, temperament - except for the troubling matter of her uncommon intelligence, her frankness, her want of "pliability".
On her solo albums, "Ashanti" in 2002 and the new "Chapter II," she continues to be the voice of pliability, constantly promising her man that he's the answer to all her needs.
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.
