"pliable" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when something is able to be bent without breaking, or when something is easily shaped or influenced. Example: The leather material was pliable, so it was easy to shape.
Whether you have a 'Rambling Rector' or a 'Paul's Himalayan Musk', now is the time to tie in the young stems of rambling roses while they are still pliable.
Gourmet is also in the hot water camp, suggesting leaving them in for 15-20 seconds "until soft and pliable" and Tran and Vu just pat them with wet fingers, although, in a note underneath, they go on to say they finally figured out that "the simplest way to prepare the rice paper is to submerge it in boiling-hot water before rolling.
I won't give an exact time, but instead of leaving them to soak, I'd pat them in the water until they feel pliable: this is easy after a couple of goes, and rice paper is so cheap it doesn't matter if you make a few mistakes along the way.
Add a splash of cold water and mix to form a pliable but not sticky dough.
Half fill a bowl big enough to fit the wrappers in with cold water, and then dunk one in and keep patting until it's pliable, but not completely soft.
Gradually add enough warm water to form a soft dough – it should be soft and pliable but not tacky.
National leaders tend to appoint pliable and second-rate commissioners.
Already, they see him as a victim of an international conspiracy to bring about regime change in favour of a more pliable government.
But through British patronage it grew, creating for the colonialists a pliable tribal elite.
But according to Raenette Taljaard of the Helen Suzman Foundation, a local think-tank, he would be "a malleable, pliable president"—and one who might be too inclined to endorse the interventionism the left is pleading for.Other names are also mentioned.
In Texas, a rigidly conservative Republican replaced a slightly more pliable one.
