Sentence examples for rigid feeling from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lindsay's guitar style, then as now, was free improvisation within strict boundaries: those circumscribed by his lack of learned technique and those circumscribed by his rigid feeling for what the structure of a song should be.

As soon as I acknowledged its presence with compassion, the angry, rigid feeling of self-condemnation softened and relaxed.

Larkin deploys it to evoke a Britain which was already disappearing: an emotionally illiterate country of stifled feelings, rigid rules and families unable to speak freely.

Its rigid, inherited belief systems.

"I'm lookin' at a computer screen and i'm seein' the statistics and it all starts feeling quite rigid.

So many contemporary productions of Chekhov wind up feeling as unnaturally rigid and posturing as those posers before the camera.

While many character comedy shows can end up feeling a little rigid, this one should be light and full of surprises; Lloyd's roots lie in improv (she trained under legendary genius-cum-lunatic Ken Campbell), so she's unlikely to let things get staid for long.

Cluster C reflects an anxious and stress reactive personality while cluster A reveals a rigid way of thinking and feeling relating to the others.

How did you achieve an organic feeling with such rigid and sturdy materials?

There can be a rigid attachment to the belief that giving must work and a comfort with the feeling of control that giving tends to generate.

I had just played the cello for too long in the wrong position, rigid with tension in a concert, feeling anxious that I would mess up and wreck the performance.