Plants are born tender and pliant. From LearnThat.org.
I coined pliant software development in protest. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Snake Oil, Part 4b: Prescriptive Approaches in the Large] Reference
He got the name of a "pliant" doctor and now has a medical card. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
The pliant, whipping branches emphasized his caution. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
I love the pliant rippling motion of your pensive youth. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
Steve has good hands, pliant, the fingers long and sure. From Wordnik.com. [Circling '84] Reference
Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Ali Binazir: What Makes a Smart Person Cool in College?] Reference
It was rough textured and pliant and perfectly suited to climbing. From Wordnik.com. [s Nipple] Reference
The Eastern people are, to a certain extent, pliant and easily led. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
The Tagálog is docile and pliant, but keenly resents an injustice. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Inside Suma's pliant foam are light actuators surrounding a sensor core. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Dispatch: New Facebook privacy controls; Blu-ray/DVD combo discs] Reference
I suspect he would like to get a more pliant parliament than he has now. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Parliament Still Finding Its Voice in the Midst of an Insurgency] Reference
A good, stout, pliant cord is quite as necessary as a well-balanced top. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
He has become pliant in will, feeble in purpose, and flaccid in character. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Men were more subtle and appeared more pliant, only to hoodwink government. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Away from the microphones and cheering crowds, Gettelfinger has proven more pliant. From Wordnik.com. [Motown’s Medical Bill] Reference
She wisked the paper from the floor and touched the old newsprint, pliant and soft. From Wordnik.com. [What You Never Thought You Wanted] Reference
I felt myself melt and become pliant and yielding, very much like hot honey or wax. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Mustache] Reference
Magni, though of pliant temper, was a thorough Papist, and, as time went on, displayed. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Through it all, she had confidently counted on me, a discreet background, a pliant puppet. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
I cannot bend it; if I put it in the fire it becomes pliant; if I take it out it is cold again. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
This is the general rule: more pliant to occasion than the law of the Turks, which never yields. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Some people think that President Karzai will manage through fraud to obtain a pliant parliament. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Parliament Still Finding Its Voice in the Midst of an Insurgency] Reference
Beautifully hued in mingled red and white, delicately shaped, pliant, supple, and shy, such as she was. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
A pliant judiciary and timid, self-seeking politicians rarely, if ever, challenge the military's clout. From Wordnik.com. [Power And Privilege] Reference
Joslin, when quite a young man, had been the assignee of his employer, who hoped to find in him a pliant tool. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Even closer to the scene is Lebanon, which Israel invaded in 1982 to end terrorism and install a pliant government. From Wordnik.com. [Perils Of Victory] Reference
Her fingers yet played between the gilded bars; the posture she had assumed set forth the pliant grace of her figure. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
As Tamino, Charles Castronovo's lyric tenor is elegant, pliant, and well-projected throughout Santa Fe's Crosby Theatre. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: Magic Flute at Santa Fe Opera] Reference
Proffered to a public, pliant, because anxious that its representatives in the field should have a worthy Commander, by an. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
It consists of a noose fastened to the top of a pliant tree, which is bent down and pegged across a path leading down to the water. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
The stakes were set so close together that a beaver could pass between in only one place, where a slender, pliant branch had been set. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
He found, however, that the willow rods or osiers were not pliant enough to work well in fastening his coils of grass cables together. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference
William Dodge would explain that in bringing the London suit he was only a pliant tool of the Laniers, and they would blame all on him. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
And this time I put the cartes bye, firmly determined that my usual easy and pliant mood in fair company would be my own enemy no more. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The return of Mr. Earley found him in more pliant and open a voice, and with a song selection well suited to his innate stage lyricism. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: California Philharmonic in Alfresco Pops and Classical Fare] Reference
"I presume it must be because Lucy is so different, and then Mabel is so pliant, which no doubt suits, as Lucy is fond of taking the lead.". From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
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