Sentence examples for rigid mood from inspiring English sources
He was suspicious of religious innovation, and his action was consistent with the increasingly orthodox and rigid mood of his last years.
Talk to Catholics in the pews in the United States and you encounter a less rigid, more generous, more pastoral mood than is evident among some of their bishops.
Our misery was a reminder of the rigid, unforgiving logic to which human moods seem subject.
The piece is a typical instance of the sensibility that so attracted Miles Davis - who, like Jamal, sought vehicles for improvisation that freely moved by changes of mood, dynamics and density, rather than obeyed the rigid dictates of the song structures.
While some habit memories may have something in common with rigid, inflexible, automated conditioning mechanisms, others are flexible and open to the changing influences of context, mood, and personal memory.
Part of this is due to Mr. Hou's approach to narrative, which replaces the rigid linearity of the three-act model with complex, impressionistic forms; isolated gestures; fugitive moments; saturated moods; and visual harmony.
In the designer's hands, rigid lines melted into rounded shapes, tailored coats broken out into pleats and luminous fabrics reflected, literally and metaphorically, a change of mood.
Retirement scares him rigid.
Hierarchies can be rigid.
