"These problems were caused primarily by a myopic zeal to be the first news organization to broadcast what was believed to be a new story about President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service, and the rigid and blind defense of the segment after it aired despite numerous indications of its shortcomings".
In this regard, the data in literature are debated and do not clarify whether denial of illness is a psychosis-like symptom or rather a rigid and disadaptive defense mechanism helping patients to protect themselves by anxiety and depression [ 26, 31] and to avoid treatments [ 89] or negative emotions [ 22, 23].
What created this easy transit in the first place is a mystery; I feel I listened to as many songs in childhood as I read stories, but in music I seem to have formed rigid ideas and created defenses around them, whereas when it came to words I never did.
Though sometimes Batteux is criticized for his stubborn defense of excessively rigid standards (as in his Principles of Literature, 1753) and for being an uncompromising advocate of the principle ut pictura poesis mentioned above, at other times, he is recognized for grasping that the ideal is not to be found anywhere outside fiction.
Among them: keeping hands up constantly on defense, with wrists stiff and fingers rigid to cause deflections, and viewing 40percentt shooting from the 3-point line as more effective than a 50percentt rate on 2-point shots.
The same rigid divide informs a recent manifesto "in defense of science and secularism" signed by such academic luminaries as Daniel C. Dennett, Steven Pinker, Peter Singer and Edward O. Wilson.
The incentive for Republicans was the huge cut to defense spending, but an ideologically rigid generation of deficit hawks has shouted down the defense hawks, leaving Democrats with no negotiating partner.
But the sort of rigid overreaction that characterized it will not make genuine defense of the First Amendment any easier.
A beetle's first line of defense against environmental factors is their mesothoracic elytra, rigid, and protective forewings.
