Sentence examples for rigid self from inspiring English sources

MDG1, a twenty-seven residue peptide, undergoes triggered folding to form an unsymmetrical β-hairpin that self-assembles in response to an increase in solution ionic strength to yield a mechanically rigid, self supporting hydrogel.

Because of this, and perhaps in an attempt by Romney not to lapse back into his more rigid self, he has been pressing forward in his interactions with voters.

D'Ambrose's tragic strivings are based on tight exclusions and rigid self-impositions as well — aesthetic ones, if not religious ones.

One might call him a neo-Victorian — rigid, self-righteous and moralizing, but (or rather and) manly, courageous and principled.

DC: Well, one does not get to be crowned Mr Olympia once let alone twice (in three years) without rigid self-discipline and a steely reserve.

Across much of Europe, Merkel — that Protestant minister's daughter — is resented as a rigid, self-righteous puritan, while support for the E.U. has fallen to historic lows.

With Brando or Montgomery Clift, Kane's vulnerability might have registered with some dramatic and thematic force; Cooper retreats into a rigid self-consciousness.

"Both corners in their rigid self-righteousness boxed the living daylights out of each other as they came flying out of their corners in this bloody fight".

Many historians would agree, while also emphasizing the rigid, self-destructive behavior that kept Wilson from achieving his key goals as president, like America's entry into the League of Nations after World War I.

Montand's natural talent, his relentless practice and rigid self-discipline, his tightly-focussed and highly-principled purpose, and his charismatic presence all contribute to an art that is centered on the body, its presentation, its projection.

He loses his rigid self-control only once, when he gives in to the village seductress Arabella, but this minor slip dooms him to marry a woman he has already begun to loathe.