Sentence examples for rigid the from inspiring English sources

Assuming that the rigidity of the longitudinal chords in Fig. 3(c) are infinitely rigid, the shear deformation can be calculated by employing the principles of virtual work method.

It sounds rigid, the opposite of open or friendly or charming or congenial.

I was shocked rigid the first time I came across sexism".

If prices are "rigid," the system cannot adjust and coordination will break down.

The playing was incisive yet never rigid; the strings had enveloping richness and textural transparency.

While the total is rigid, the team is free to distribute the money as it sees fit among those picks.

Often seen in profile, their shoulders angled above their torsos and their arms held rigid, the barefoot dancers are like figures come to life from primitive friezes.

Indeed, the more rigid the orthodoxy a speech proposes, the more we sense its distance from the poet's emotional response to what he sees.

Because wages were rigid, the adjustment needed to put everyone in the demographic bulge to work would have been long and painful.

Quelling inflation would be easier if Turkey's product markets were more competitive and its labour market less rigid, the report notes.

After criticism that May's debate was too rigid, the electoral authorities came up with a new formula to allow more interjection and argument.