A man stands rigidly behind a desk, his eyes locked on its empty surface.
Seated rigidly behind him was his handler, also eerily stoic, a stocky, reticent sort in his early thirties whom I called "Senor Busco", an appellation he, for some reason, found offensive.
But from the same period there is also "The Blind Leading the Blind" (1947-49), a sharp, hard-edged work that seems to prefigure Minimalism, in which pairs of tapered, toothpick-like legs in painted bronze are rigidly arranged, one behind the other, as if on a mindless march.
a The probe was attached rigidly 0.3 m behind its tip to test the effectiveness of the control.
As is shown in Fig. 22a, the hose was attached rigidly about 0.3 m behind its tip.
Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned--discouraging racism, condemning violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred--inevitably, the end result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination and infantilism.
Hands clasped behind the back, held rigidly at the sides, or hands repeatedly in and out of pockets, buttoning and unbuttoning the jacket, aimlessly moving to the cheek, the nose, the eyeglasses; hands toying with a watch, a pencil, a ring, all of these demonstrate a lack of poise.
Religious conservatives complained that the courts had banished religion from American public life and were enforcing a rigidly secular ideology that prohibited the faithful from expressing their beliefs except behind closed doors.
At the start of the week he formulated a plan for negotiating Hoylake's tight, running links - long-irons off the tee, long-iron to the green -and stuck to it rigidly throughout, even when he found himself as much as 50 yards behind his playing partners on some holes.
Their lives are rigidly timetabled.
As the rigidly authoritarian Capt.
