Less subtly, Transport for London repeatedly warned people how "exceptionally busy" the city would be.Though many Londoners were cross about being elbowed aside for Olympic bigwigs, a diverse city of individuals not known for their pliancy listened.
Unusually for a diverse city of individuals not known for their pliancy, millions of people seem to have listened.
Uninflected and without gendered nouns, English was uniquely placed to offer Shakespeare the linguistic pliancy and suppleness he needed to turn out the epidemic of metaphors and similes that so mark his work.
He appears to have decided against allowing any direct election for membership of the reformed upper house.Formally, of course, the government will decide nothing until it receives the report of a royal commission on Lords reform from Lord Wakeham, a former Tory cabinet minister of legendary pliancy.
Their modification of the construct to serve their own purposes demonstrates its pliancy.
He was diplomatic to a degree, but he did not possess the pliancy of the professional politician.
Several strips of bamboo were glued together, retaining the strength and pliancy of the cane but greatly reducing the thickness and weight of the finished rod.
Opulence tumbled into decadence in Scriabin's priapic Fourth Symphony, "The Poem of Ecstasy", its dialogue between throbbing force and panting pliancy far too revealing of the composer's sweaty theories on "the Male-Creator and the Woman-World".
Of the 10, Andrea Carrucciu comes closest to the ribbon-like pliancy Scarlett demands, but on the whole the group seems to be operating outside its comfort zone.
(With the phrase "Yes Is More," Ingels has almost made such pliancy sound radical, or at least fun).
The light of the full moon only added to that depth, that pliancy.
