Sentence examples for rigid form from inspiring English sources

We distrust the restrictions of a rigid form like opera seria.

Laïcité, a rigid form of secularism, has been integral to France's political identity since the Revolution, in the eighteenth century.

And, especially in this region, we're trying to impose a rigid form of paralysis, holding people in a framework that is not natural and didn't come from them.

In some quarters, a rigid form of multiculturalism also arose that challenged the need for immigrants and other minorities to identify with America at all.

In later paintings she was influenced by the rigid form of the Tibetan mandala, whose circles, squares and tight symmetries symbolized the complexity and wholeness of the universe.

Nor does Christopher's, though the drenched, rigid form of Luke Treadaway, the sensitive actor playing him, shows how much the experience has drained him.

Pueblo art became a strongly conventionalized art, held to relatively rigid forms.

The outlines are hand-drawn, but they insist upon the rigid forms.

combines the dense and rigid forms of rock, marble and slate with the frailty of a paper-thin root.

Suddenly, you weren't bound by the rigid forms of the 1950's -- the penciled brow, the tight red mouth, the hair in a permanent fix of glamour.

It is the tendency of cultic worship to replace spontaneity, which it once had, with set and even rigid forms of words and acts.