Sentence examples for rigid appearance from inspiring English sources

The rigid appearance of the tapering rachis, the imbricate pinnae that appear to have resisted compression, and the reinforced pinnule margins imply thick evergreen leaves, perhaps adapted for drought tolerance.

Ailes's first job in a long life of political spin was selling Nixon, who might have blown the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy because of his sweaty, rigid appearance during the first televised debate.

This creates an austere, rigid appearance.

In Egyptian sculpture the figures often stand firm with one foot placed before the other and the arms held tightly by the side of the body, giving the figures a rather rigid, lifeless appearance.

In contrast to phenomenalism, a position in the theory of knowledge (epistemology) with which it is often confused, phenomenology which is not primarily an epistemological theory accepts neither the rigid division between appearance and reality nor the narrower view that phenomena are all that there is (sensations or permanent possibilities of sensations).

Smith has noted that in optimal weather conditions, "robust" forms may be found that are "strict and rigid in their appearance".

Adult worms killed by Verde2 exhibited an unusual rigid and swollen appearance.

The US has more celebs with perfect teeth simply because it has more celebs (and maybe more rigid standards of celebrity appearance).

In contrast, the interaction between deformable structures and free water surface can be modified the fluid flow and changed the estimated hydrodynamic loads comparing with rigid body, due to appearance of hydroelastic effects.

Any post-Kantian discussion of the relation of thought to being must come to grips with Kant's rigid bifurcation between phenomenal appearance and noumenal reality.

The concrete cylinder would make the tower more rigid without harming its appearance, he said.