Sentence examples for rigid word from inspiring English sources

The big surprise is that no attempt has been made to alter that nasty, rigid word "commitments" to something more flexible and up-to-date.

Specifically, they usually occur in a rigid word order, as the movement and permutation of constituents are not allowed.

The resultative construction here must observe a rigid word order: the causative verb must precede the resultative verb, and permutation between stative and causative verbs is not allowed, as in (19a b11).

The syntax of written Tamil has also changed, with the introduction of new aspectual auxiliaries and more complex sentence structures, and with the emergence of a more rigid word order that resembles the syntactic argument structure of English.

This can be regarded as filling in part the gap between the rigid word length used in [ 13] and the shared-word length averaging of [ 14].

Youngblood says that Silva then "took a rigid stance" – the word stance in this case actually meaning the exact opposite because Silva seems to have been lying "rigidly" on the ground.

It is the tendency of cultic worship to replace spontaneity, which it once had, with set and even rigid forms of words and acts.

His son never discovers the book, but several hundred years later, after an apocalyptic flood has destroyed the planet, a primitive group of humans digs it up and takes its lessons as gospel, following Dave's every bitter word with rigid devotion and creating a harsh, crude and tyrannical society.

To determine if it is, we need a rigid definition of the word, and that's something we don't have.

Jeb, through his foundations, pushed school vouchers, charter schools, rigid testing and the word school choice, which is code for segregation.

An equal performance was expected between groups regarding the processing of single nouns because a rigid, non-relational single word representation should suffice this task.