The rigid suit meant he was physically incapable of turning his head.
Her own strenuously achieved Barbie figure found its masculine counterpart in rigid suiting and long coats with the holster-style belts that so many people have "borrowed" from Helmut Lang (who got them from the military, of course) over the years that the designer should be paid some kind of royalty.
If you are more of a free spirit stuck in a buttoned-down, rigid suit-and-tie backdrop, you diminish your odds of being happy at work.
One of them is a stereotype that some may find disturbing: Soho Eckstein, a crude, rapacious businessman who wears his rigid pinstriped suit like a uniform.
We find it confining, too rigid perhaps to suit our natural states, and long for that looser structure of the medieval village (while retaining our modern comforts and medical advances, of course).
When an Italian (Donizetti, with "Lucia di Lammermoor") or a German (Wagner, with "Tannhäuser") introduced an opera in Paris, it had to be revised to suit rigid Parisian tastes.
The result has been considered only partially successful however, for while it turned out more highly educated officers, that education was solely in a rigid scientific discipline suited to an Air Force that never came into existence, namely one relying on missiles rather than manned aircraft.
The shapes at Mr. McQueen's show were more rigid and armorial; boiler suits, shaped neoprene coats with outsize shoulders, the outline dictated by the way the unyielding material was pieced and seamed along the top.
Optical systems based on photogrammetric methods are more used than the nonoptical ones, usually requiring special suits embedding rigid skeletal-like structures [4], magnetic [5] or accelerometric devices [6] or multisensor fusion algorithms [7].
Mr. Gore, rigid in his blue suit, did not seem entirely comfortable in these uncampaignlike settings.
