Sentence examples for rigid pattern from inspiring English sources

The entertainment at the dinner follows a rigid pattern.

A rigid pattern has developed in which one election's runner-up is the next election's winner.

Degrés (1960; Degrees), his fourth novel, imposes on the action the rigid pattern of a college timetable.

Their drinking took place entirely in the evening and followed a rigid pattern: with each cocktail they became increasingly thin-skinned, bristling at imaginary slights.

Spread the adhesive with the flat side of the trowel, then flip the trowel over and use the notched side to comb the adhesive in a uniformly rigid pattern.

In fact, it assumes that the uncertainty in the cash flows increases with time according to a rigid pattern, which depends on the ratio of the risk-free rate and the risk-adjusted discount rate.

"You have all of these very rigid patterns set up, and yet with all that, you have people crossing lines," Mr. Howard said.

He argues that it would be difficult to persuade doctors, many of whom are fiercely independent, to follow rigid patterns in their work.

Carhart-Harris believes that people suffering from other mental disorders characterized by excessively rigid patterns of thinking, such as addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder, could benefit from psychedelics, which "disrupt stereotyped patterns of thought and behavior".

The scene has been shifted from Scotland to England's Cornwall, and some characters are eliminated, but the film remains carefully faithful to Mrs. Woolf's haunting vision of life's constantly shifting yet rigid patterns.

In physics parlance, crystals are said to "break translational symmetry in space" because the atoms assemble into rigid patterns rather than being evenly spread out, as they are in a liquid or gas.