Sentence examples for quite elastic from inspiring English sources

And their meaning is capable of quite elastic interpretation.

Michael Skapinker notes that since the recession demand for organic food (which claims to be better for you, the animal and the environment) has proven quite elastic.

One factor is that Alaska's vote is quite elastic, meaning that it can shift quite a bit from year to year.

Human hunger is apparently quite elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: it behooved our hunter-gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, thereby storing reserves of fat against future famine.

Under attack A slap on the chic Small but elegant Freeing the airwaves Reprints Related items The Economist commodity price indexMay 29th 2003Furthermore, demand for natural rubber is, appropriately enough, quite elastic: it depends on the relative price of synthetic rubber.

Of course in years past, the laws of succession were quite elastic.

They say I'm like elastic, I'm quite flexible.

But nowhere are attitudes toward sex and gender quite as elastic as in the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca.

8 P.M. (HBO) MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (2011) Jim Carrey -- his limbs not quite as elastic in this comeback vehicle, directed by Mark Waters -- manages not to be upstaged by a half-dozen flightless birds as he plays Popper, a real estate wheeler-dealer and lousy father who ends up with a strange bequest from his own lousy dad.

5 P.M. (HBO2) MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (2011) Jim Carrey — his limbs not quite as elastic in this comeback vehicle, directed by Mark Waters — manages not to be upstaged by a half-dozen flightless birds as he plays Popper, a real estate wheeler-dealer and lousy father who ends up with a strange bequest from his own lousy dad.

7 P.M. (HBO Family) MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (2011) Jim Carrey, below — his limbs not quite as elastic in this comeback vehicle, directed by Mark Waters — manages not to be upstaged by a half-dozen flightless birds as he plays Popper, a real estate wheeler-dealer and lousy father who ends up with a strange bequest from his own lousy dad.