The phrase 'rigid opinion' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe an opinion which is unbending and inflexible. For example, "Mary's rigid opinion on the topic of taxes made it difficult for the discussion to progress".
But what Karl and I were getting at is a tactic known as "affirmation". It may be one of the only ways to begin to melt rigid opinions just enough to enable some flexible discussion.
On a cool night in Charlottesville this week, dozens of people armed with protest signs and rigid opinions packed into a room to contend with a controversy facing cities throughout the South: What to do about the symbols of their Confederate past.
From the outset, it was clear that these Gods had very rigid opinions about who could and who couldn't be part of their exclusive little clique.
People who don't drink alcohol, people whose parents didn't let them watch Made in Chelsea, people who don't have any rigid opinions on whether Disclosure ruined house or not.
The identified rigid opinions on managing HIV-infected co-workers, together with stigmatizing attitudes towards HIV-infected patients, underscores an urgent need to decrease stigmatizing attitudes and prevent discriminatory practices in health care settings.
Participants were asked by a self-administered anonymous written questionnaire about their socio-demographic characteristics; experience on HIV-related training, testing, and percutaneous injury; and the extent of their agreement with 9 rigid opinions regarding managing HIV-infected co-workers, and with 10 negative attitudes regarding working with HIV-infected patients on a 5-point Likert scale.
You are not being asked to take this person back home to have dinner with you (although, you can if you like); you are simply being asked to use compassion to try and stand in the other person's shoes and unpack the story they may be bringing to you, unseen beneath their anger, resentment and rigid opinions.
Don't be rigid with your opinion and allow your partner to put forth his reasoning.
Over time, they naturally become more rigid in their opinions and resistant to opposing views.
The closed mind thinker can easily be recognized; he or she has a rigid set of opinions and attitudes that are not open to discussion.
