Sentence examples for rigidly drawn from inspiring English sources

(Before then, the lines between sexuality were less rigidly drawn).

Class and caste lines were rigidly drawn, and the Roman Catholic Church served as the strong right arm of temporal authority.

But the broad scope of the plan, with measures range from scaling back the state to accelerating privatizations to loosening labor laws, as well as its rigidly drawn timetable, makes its passage in Parliament an uphill battle.

During those years France itself was divided as it had not been since the Revolution, with party lines rigidly drawn, old friendships broken and families rent asunder between Dreyfusards and anti's.

That war continues to be fought by proxy, of course, its battle lines so rigidly drawn that you can confidently predict the reaction to his testimony without having heard him take 10,000 words to repeat that everything's peachy because he sincerely believed whatever he said he sincerely believed at the time.

Mr. Weintraub expects that the need for bipartisan cooperation will provide Democrats an opportunity to attach environmental and labor standards to the bill, although Mr. Bush has made it clear that he does not support such standards if they are too rigidly drawn.

What is clear is that the turn of events has disrupted this small village, where, as in the rest of rural Africa, the lines between men and women are drawn rigidly.

On both sides, though, lines are being drawn even more rigidly on the central and explosive issue of Jerusalem and its ancient holy sites.

(First Run Features; DVD, $29.95; not rated) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU Andrei Ujica's 2011 documentary examines the life of the rigidly Stalinist dictator through three hours of footage drawn from the National Archives of Romania.

His big-band music took the legacy of his fellow Canadian Gil Evans and joined it to harmonies drawn from the German classical composer Paul Hindemith, from Debussy and Ravel, and from North American folk music, but he never insisted that soloists rigidly adhere to his rules, and was happy for them to shred his lustrous backdrops with howling free-jazz odysseys if they felt like it.

Beginning in the 1960s, MoMA's curatorial departments were rigidly divided: painting and sculpture, drawing, photography and architecture were separate worlds.