He was valued for his reliability and pliability.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

At the risk of pop-psychoanalyzing, something Limbaugh does every day on his show, let me suggest that his pliability is rooted in a strange insecurity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talent on Loan from the GOP] Reference

Through its pliability, which is almost unlimited, it produces in equal measure absurd comparisons and very original inventions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

As Diehl notes, Obama's "pliability" did not go unnoticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

I am both drunk on my own power and in awe of your pliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is it OK to wear animal print in autumn?] Reference

The grander the nature the greater its pliability towards truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference

It is prohibited to blacken them or to diminish their pliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

They are made of willow, on account of its toughness and pliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference

No other gives the wire the same pliability or elasticity, of course. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Of the good manners and pliability of foreign regimes, we can be less certain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Realpolitik in Arabia] Reference

Lecithin helps maintain blood vessel pliability and keep blood fats in solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Eye: Part 1 of a Series] Reference

I used a light pastel opaque for its pliability, and it wouldn't hold that shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tool Time Drawing For One of My Beads] Reference

When it cooled, it set to an almost perfect combination of strength and pliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Val, yes, the liquid glycerin is for help with the pliability (is that even a word?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Photos & Instructions for Jelly Roll Soaps] Reference

I was just going to say that Marl seems like an extreme instance of -- of pliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus From The Long Sun]

There is no more pliability in her with regard to Asbury than there is in a steel rod.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference

But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health-Care Reform Could Kill the GOP] Reference

Blood pressure would have decreased and all the measures of vascular pliability would have improved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

I assure you I am pliability itself in delicate fingers -- although iron and steel to a threatening hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

That was all GOP committee members, handpicked by Newt Gingrich for their zealousness or pliability, needed to hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Starr Chamber] Reference

From what little I've seen, though, I really love the amount of pliability and flexibility they got out of the faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wise Old Animation Exec on Blue Sky's Latest] Reference

The Janis Joplin version is a revelation, and Shakira has some of the same pliability in her voice, mutando mutandis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover Me: A Musical Open Thread « Whatever] Reference

The same man, whom an enemy would have found it hard to deceive, was pliability itself in the concerns of his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agesilaus] Reference

Cowperwood detected that pliability of intellect which, while it might spell disaster to some, spelled success for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

Ignorance, pliability and shameless sycophancy are the only routes to acceptance at all levels and departments of the CS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Serf is no more?] Reference

This illustrates the force of established habit, and the pliability of our nature in yielding a voluntary subjection to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Home] Reference

A central feature of pliability journalism is the bending of contrary facts to fit the narrative of change, hope and unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pliability Journalism] Reference

Now this sort of pliability does not merely prevent any heroic consistency, it also prevents any really practical compromise.    From Wordnik.com.  [G.K. Speaks - Wanted, An Unpractical Man] Reference

Warring sides increasingly target civilian populations and so-called leaders recognize the pliability of children as soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standing Up For The World's Children: Leave No Child Behind] Reference

She used to be pliability itself, but she was now inflexibly passive in her resignation — I might almost say in her despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in White] Reference

The incredible, lush pliability of glass when it is hot can only be felt through the end of a blowpipe, never with your hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Optional: If using an old or dried out melt and pour, add 1 Tablespoon of Liquid Glycerin at Step Two to help with pliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loopy Soap - Day One] Reference

Hence, the child will not appreciate the parent's motive, and will lack that pliability of spirit which is essential to reformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Home] Reference

The metal gold seemed to them to have no value other than its easy pliability in the manufacture of sacred artifacts and art objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Mercenary]

There are many others, less serious in their nature, such as indecision, exaggerated scrupulousness, extreme pliability, hypochondria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference

There is a life-like pliability about it as it falls, and the tight cerements so define the outlines that the action makes me shudder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Shiva did not have time for subtlety; he was strength personified, but for all that, there was a certain childlike pliability about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ageing Beaver] Reference