Sentence examples for standing rigid from inspiring English sources

He often portrayed his models with pretzellike limbs, or standing rigid in almost Pharaonic poses.

Afterward, Patriots Coach Bill Belichick looked dumbfounded, standing rigid at a lectern as he mumbled nearly incoherent responses to questions.

On the dais, standing rigid, were Rudolph W. Giuliani, former mayor of New York; George P. Shultz, former secretary of state; and several onetime state officials.

He'd been highly aware of the way Dr. Hart took in his living room, the giant television, the absence of books or art, and his mother's collection of china dolls, her pantheon, standing rigid on their perches, staring at him with their ice-cold eyes.

So Van Slyke decided to wait him out, with both players standing rigid on the warning track for 12 minutes.

Instead of standing rigid against cultural change, we embraced it, flowed with it, and used it as a blueprint to revitalize our brand to appeal to today's girls.

Standing in rigid lines, they move stiff arms and legs with hypnotic fervor, falling in and out of one line only to form another.

The reception room was guarded by ceremonial soldiers standing at rigid attention in traditional turbans topped with fans of starched black cotton.

Retort away, says the pro-life leader: the argument will make pro-abortion groups sound extreme.In an era of scepticism and division, standing on rigid principle can be a blunder, it turns out: a tool for firing up partisans, useless for swaying voters in the middle.

My personal best: watching Sadiq Khan trip up a step, and seeing Ken Clarke do a kind of weird hybrid burp-sneeze thing in a lift, and then standing there rigid for what felt like a millennium while everyone pretended absolutely nothing had happened.

An adjustable mechanical arm with lockable joints mounted to a free-standing, rigid platform (fabricated locally) enabled convenient adjustment and maintenance of stimulus position.