Sentence examples for somewhat inflexible from inspiring English sources

Expensive and somewhat inflexible, automatic assembly machines are economical only if they produce a high level of output.

Tim Locke The iPad is a very good device for displaying photographs, though it can be somewhat inflexible.

It continues the studio's tenacious pursuit of the blockbuster video game as a form of interactive cinema, pushing the player along somewhat inflexible, pre-written narrative lines.

"I thought it was going to be a very, very interesting collision between my super-organized, somewhat inflexible, inordinately plan-ahead self and my family values".

I phoned Temple from the Denver airport to reconfirm our meeting — it was conceivable, I thought, that she might be somewhat inflexible about arrangements, so time and place should be set as definitely as possible.

A city long renowned for a somewhat inflexible respectability when West Princes Street Gardens were turned over to the general public in 1876, smoking was forbidden Edinburgh concurrently maintained a fascinating netherworld of ribaldry and drunkenness.

So far, producers have been pretty inflexible.

Americans see Republicans as somewhat more inflexible in the debate: just 1 in 4 say that Republicans in Congress are working with Mr. Obama.

In an effort to shed the image of cruising as a somewhat staid, inflexible form of travel popular with the shuffleboard set, cruise lines have begun promoting the idea of choice, as it applies not only to itineraries of varying lengths but also to everything from dining to shore excursions to shipboard amenities.

Poland's grid is somewhat small and inflexible, and additional measures that add to grid flexibility – such as expanded transmission, demand response, energy storage, and fast ramping supply – can help integrate a growing share of renewables.

Prior to the emergence of this place learning, Nadel and Zola-Morgan (1984) argued that although the experiencing of events will influence an organism (and 'leave behind some residue'), true "in place" memory will not be evident, which resonates with the hypothesis that prior to the advent of crawling in a human infant's life, memory appears to be inflexible and somewhat improvised.