Sentence examples for rigidity of thinking from inspiring English sources

Haines wrote: "He is not a Marxist but he has some of the Marxist rigidity of thinking.

It has fostered a rigidity of thinking that in its worst classifies populations into 'doomed' and 'safe' categories based upon whether the population size exceeds the threshold prescribed in the rule, and excusing inaction in either case (Allendorf and Luikhart 2007, p. 359).

I have noticed a certain rigidity of thinking and lack of ability to adapt and change views, plus I have experienced three instances of aggressive and unpleasant behaviour.

The important point here is that Bodi's symptoms--like those of so many kids with a mild diagnosis--include rigidity of thinking, a preference for routine, and avoidance of eye contact.

This may seem like another "rule" but it's a softer, gentler way of lessoning some of the rigidity of the previous way of thinking.

If the Dummettian line of thinking from §2.3.2 is sound, does rigidity lose its interest?

In this way two-dimensionalist lines of thinking might be expressed naturally by appeal to rigidity.[14] Various objections to the coherence or usefulness of rigidity have been put forward by specialists in the philosophy of language; but criticisms from this subdiscipline do not seem to have done much to damage the widespread appeal of rigidity.

She is capable of thinking.

(The rigidity of Schoenberg's thinking shows in his "correction" of a famous moment in Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, in which the horn enters in E-flat while the rest of the orchestra is in B-flat. Schoenberg said that Beethoven had made a slip of the pen).

And, as a woman in her eighties, the aged Thatcher is more prone to a chaotic, style of hallucinatory thinking rather than the rigidity of her previous high standards (best shown in a scene where she humiliates a male subordinate who has made a spelling error).

Like Ross, Bassett was forced past her parameters: she transcended the rigidity of her training and appeared to express emotion without thinking.