Sentence examples for rigid ways from inspiring English sources

Unable to abide by either's rigid ways, she discovers, more through honor than rebellion, that she possesses enough fortitude to carve her own path.

The idea of protecting was widely interpreted to mean that he was determined to guard her from the traditional and rigid ways of the Imperial Household Agency courtiers.

However, the last three winners have been Anglophone (City of Bohane by Kevin Barry, Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann), and it's also true that reading books from so many different literary cultures and genres helps the reader think about fiction in different, less rigid ways – this too might explain the unconventional results.

When we think in these rigid ways we become anxious and self-pitying.

They had married young and she at first tolerated his eccentricities and rigid ways.

I wonder how we'll react when a future cohort of Christians calls us on our own dusty, rigid ways?

But what is significant about its use this week is that it is now apparently being applied in a rigid, inflexible way - policing as video-game.

*Some states complained that the federal government had administered the program in a rigid, inflexible way that prevented them from spending the money for children who might have benefited.

I don't treat them in a literal, rigid way.

In any case, most modern acting teaching rejects any one rigid way of doing things as uniquely right.

But even I.R.S. officials say lookout list warnings were often pursued in a ham-handed or overly rigid way.