In his own performance of Bheeshma, Khan has utterly denatured the silken fluidity of his usual dancing style; instead, he moves with the stiffened gait and crude force of a rigid, battle-proud man who has made himself immune to the influence of women Chien's Amba, by contrast, is an elusive, protean figure.
Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.
She is obsessed with violence of a medieval sort-with armor and the color of blood and rigid headpieces and battles.
We are as inflexible as possible in worryingly fluid situations and quickly scared people face other scared people in self-perpetuating battles between rigid values.
The law's views of sexuality are notoriously reductive and rigid, and much of the battle for the rights of queer people in the US has been predicated on the innateness and stability of sexuality.
Mr. Fayed has tended to portray himself as an outsider, battling Britain's rigid class system.
For them, the forces of enlightened progress are always battling against the rigid, Bible-thumping forces of religion, whether represented by William Jennings Bryan or Jerry Falwell.
Arms wide and tense, back rigid, he seemed to be battling unseen forces even during the notionally calm Dawn interlude, and his measured, careful approach made heavy weather of the music, even if the orchestra was thrillingly powerful in the Storm interlude and the climax to Moonlight.
There are the glimmerings of the clash of ideas that partly animates "Vikings" -- Da Vinci is constantly battling superstition and rigid religious beliefs with scientific concepts and investigations -- but the Starz show's ample energies aren't harnessed in consistently rewarding ways.
Andersen was born in a slum and had a difficult battle breaking through the rigid class structure of his time.
Fleet communications were limited during the period, and the traditional orders from admirals before a battle were accordingly quite rigid, limiting a captain's independence in the battle.
