Sentence examples for sort of rigid from inspiring English sources

Wynalda does not even play his team in any sort of rigid formation.

But the sort of rigid overreaction that characterized it will not make genuine defense of the First Amendment any easier.

Well, Bach had this proclivity for writing music that's very sort of rigid, very chromatic, very contrapuntal and very long, and it is long and contrapuntal, as we will be seeing in particular in sections this coming week.

For all the story's classic elements, its core throwback is to the sense of oversupervised overproduction, the sort of rigid controls seen in studio filmmaking from the nineteen-thirties.

Closer inspection indicates pin mounts at the top and locking devices at the bottom, as if some sort of rigid screen had been locked into place; tenants report that there has been nothing there for at least 30 years.

And I said, 'Oh do stop asking questions, just shut up, Will.' Well, I go down to breakfast about half an hour later into this sort of rigid family in shock" – she affects wide-eyed consternation – "saying, 'You must never, ever tell a small child to shut up.' And I say, 'What?

I have been active and outspoken on various 'taboo' issues, critical of ultranationalism and all sorts of rigid ideologies, including those coming from the Kemalist elite, and I have maintained a public presence on minority rights, especially on the Armenian question.

Though Latin America did not generally experience the same sorts of rigid, legally mandated racial segregation characteristic of the United States, the region still suffers from racism and the legacy of creating a coerced labor pool made up of either black slaves or indigenous workers.

All in all, the OECD report is an ugly reality check for a country that has historically seen itself as uniquely rewarding of talent; as a place free of the sorts of rigid social structures that led so many generations of immigrants to leave Old Europe.

This is because it exhibits exactly the sort of rigidities that have proved so damaging elsewhere in Asia: a rigid exchange rate, and a rigid political system.

In one video taken at the time, it appears that the cat is having some sort of horrible rigid seizure; in another, the cat seems completely terrified about a couple of mice in its cage despite having literally just killed one before being dosed.