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"pliancy" Definitions
  1. the quality of being soft and bending easily
  2. (sometimes disapproving) the quality of being willing to accept change; the fact of being easy to influence or control

30 Sentences With "pliancy"

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Kenya's judiciary was once known for its pliancy and crookedness.
Helms's hopes of keeping his job under Nixon depended on his pliancy, Agnew was to say.
Over the years, he has honed an instinct for self-preservation through pliancy, deflection, and bemused forbearance.
Here, lightness is found not through eternal return's inverse but through its pliancy — that history is subject to reinterpretation.
Among the fine cast, one other standout performance was by the tenor Peter Scott Drackley, who sang Macduff with expressive pliancy.
A willingness to take one on—to take one in, filling one's mouth with another's words—suggests pliancy, openness to enticement.
Joe Rong, a native of Taishan in Guangdong Province, China, grinds rice daily in electric stone mills to achieve noodles of remarkable pliancy and earthiness.
At the waltz's start, Ms. Phelan swayed from side to side to the beat with such blithe pliancy that she at once became the number's heartbeat.
Dressed in a baggy blue shell jacket and pants, she crumbled and rose from the pavement with a spooky pliancy as Strength NIA's "Northern Ireland Yes" played.
Ms. Hulland, a little too dainty when dancing alone, responded to his presence and support with all the ardent pliancy that Ashton famously required of his dancers.
The instrumental texture, too, is a mix of crisp repeated patterns and sensual wind solos, which the orchestra, under the baton of Mark Gibson, plays with pliancy and style.
Also in the genre of Bharatanatyam, so largely dominated by women, the Australian-born Christopher Gurusamy's solo recital on Friday was sensational in sweep, rigor, pliancy, precision, eloquence and charm.
But a great deal of it was also because of the pliancy of his singing voice, a deeply expressive instrument that lent itself to a variety of tempos, arrangements and emotions.
Or we could improvise — with that leftover turkey, yes, or with any cooked protein remaining from our weekend kitchen adventures, anything that pairs nicely with melted cheese and the crisp pliancy of a well-toasted corn tortilla.
At City Ballet, there are few men as elegant and unaffected as Mr. Janzen, but he's capable of heat, too: the pas de deux, opposite an electrifying Ms. Mearns, was a soaring expression of pliancy and play.
At the Drive East festival, he subordinated himself to tradition with touching humility — and yet the power of his jumps, the pliancy of his torso and the acuity of his rhythm gave it new and electrifying force.
Now, investors are waiting to see whether Rajan's reforms will survive his departure — or whether the RBI will gradually revert to its previous pliancy, easing monetary policy to accelerate growth — while potentially undermining India's hard-won macroeconomic stability.
That leaves America in a dangerous place—with a mercurial president who has long given a higher priority to personal interests than national ones, eager to strike a historic accord to cement his legacy, and apparently prizing pliancy above honesty in his staff.
Alexander I ( ) (1445 or 1456 – April 27, 1511), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1476 to 1511. Alexander's pliancy and flexible diplomacy earned him security from the neighboring powers, only to be murdered by his own son George II "the Bad".
The name combined the characters , meaning "pliancy", and dō, which is literally "The Way", but figuratively meaning 'method.'Waterhouse, David. "Kanō Jigorō and the Beginnings of the Jūdō Movement", Toronto, symposium, 1982, pp. 170–171.Draeger, Donn F. Martial Arts and Ways of Japan: Volume II; Classical Budo and Bujutsu.
The rewards of this extra pliancy are often to be seen in geomagics that possess symmetries denied to numerical specimens. Besides squares using planar shapes, there exist 3D specimens, the cells of which contain solid pieces that will combine to form the same constant solid target. Figure 5 shows an example in which the target is a cube.
Mārdava (Sanskrit: मार्दव) or Maddava (Pali) means mildness, softness, gentleness, kindness, weakness and pliancy (leniency). Mardava as a divine quality is to be lenient with those who make mistakes, to never be offended and remains always quiet when people revile or ignore God. To be gentle is to make friends easily. It is to know that ignorance is the likely reasons for the naysaying response.
Nonviolent Self Defense (NSD) is a system of self-protection and humane control developed in the 1970s by Harvard-trained educational psychologist Dr. William Paul( (1939–1989). NSD was devised for use by mental health professionals who dealt with potentially violent psychiatric patients on a daily basis. NSD is a system of integrated self-defense and control skills based on whole-body movement and pliancy. The system features evasion, deflection, dodging, disengagement, and restraint.
The nonaesthetic properties associated with cuteness - smallness, compactness, formal simplicity, softness or pliancy thus also index minor negative affects such as helplessness, pitifulness and even despondency. Ngai also argues that the term cuteness is a way of sexualizing beings while simultaneously rendering them unthreatening. She illustrates this by providing several examples of poems that deploy ‘cuteness’ as a means of rendering the overtly aggressive and sexual dimension of the theme unthreatening. If "cuteness" is symptomatic of the aesthetics of contemporary consumption, zaniness is about production.
The Mula-Tīkā expresses this as follows: ::Workableness signifies that specific or suitable degree of pliancy or softness which makes the gold, that is, the mind, workable. While the mind is in the flames of passion it is too soft to be workable, as molten gold is. If, on the contrary, the mind is too rigid then it is comparable to untempered gold. :Wieldiness is the opponent of the “hindrances”, such as sensuous desire (kamacchanda) and anger or hate (vyapada), which cause mental unwieldiness.
In Chinese Taoist thought, water is representative of intelligence and wisdom, flexibility, softness, and pliancy; however, an overabundance of the element is said to cause difficulty in choosing something and sticking to it. In the same way, water can be fluid and weak, but can also wield great power when it floods and overwhelms the land. In Chinese medicine, water is believed to govern the kidney and urinary bladder, and is associated with the ears and bones. The negative emotion associated with water is fear/anxiety, while the positive emotion is calmness.
Upon reaching his palace however, the gods found themselves trapped in the defiled energy cast by the supernatural powers of the king. Even some of the Vajra Deities (金剛神) who were later sent to apprehend the Brahma King were imprisoned by the foul forces as well. When Shakyamuni Buddha came to learn of this, He employed His Original Wisdom (本智), and the Light of Perpetual Joy and Pliancy was emitted from His heart. Ucchuṣma Vajrapāla (穢跡金剛) soon appeared from amidst the revolving radiance of the Buddha’s heart, and ascended to the celestial palace of the Brahma King.
That principle was rooted in the concept of pliancy or flexibility, as understood in both a mental and a physical context. To apply the principle of Jū, the exponent had to be both mentally and physically capable of adapting himself to whatever situation his adversary might impose on him. There are two aspects of the principle of Jū that are in constant operation, both interchangeable and inseparable. One aspect is that of "yielding", and is manifest in the exponent's actions that accept the enemy's force of attack, rather than oppose him by meeting his force directly with an equal or greater force, when it is advantageous to do so.
This proved to be a major flaw in the Articles, as it created an insurmountable obstacle to constitutional reform. The amendment process crafted during the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention was, according to The Federalist No. 43, designed to establish a balance between pliancy and rigidity: There are two steps in the amendment process. Proposals to amend the Constitution must be properly adopted and ratified before they change the Constitution. First, there are two procedures for adopting the language of a proposed amendment, either by (a) Congress, by two-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, or (b) national convention (which shall take place whenever two-thirds of the state legislatures collectively call for one).
The part allowed Swinton to explore matters of gender presentation onscreen which reflected her lifelong interest in androgynous style. Swinton later reflected on the role in an interview accompanied by a striking photo shoot. "People talk about androgyny in all sorts of dull ways," said Swinton, noting that the recent rerelease of Orlando had her thinking again about its pliancy. She referred to 1920s French artist and playful gender-bender Claude Cahun: "Cahun looked at the limitlessness of an androgynous gesture, which I've always been interested in." Recent years have seen Swinton move towards more mainstream projects, including the leading role in the American film The Deep End (2001), in which she played the mother of a gay son she suspects of killing his boyfriend.

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