But with such a supple, sensitive and compassionate mind, rigidity is something you need never worry about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Begins At 40 « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

Moreover, in the U.S. today, I think that a case can be made that wage rigidity is a major factor in the current business cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hayek and Tobin, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The rigidity is a part of him; it keeps him calm and has helped him succeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference

Both Kripke (1980) and Putnam (1975) famously extend the notion of rigidity to terms for natural kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rigid Designators] Reference

This can lead to a certain rigidity and hardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog De Ganz | Archive | February] Reference

This kind of rigidity of thinking is too great a price for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faith, Atheism, and Death] Reference

Don't get carried away with this "rigidity" of Spanish pronunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [pronunciation of the spanish letter ''a''] Reference

Is that something that's likely to impress the court, that kind of rigidity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room - December 11, 2000] Reference

BEINART: The problem is this kind of rigidity works well in war, it's what you need.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2001] Reference

So, I guess maybe I shouldn't have used the word "rigidity" when referring to Dennis 'rubric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evaluating Blogging] Reference

By this I don't mean some kind of rigidity that keeps a public figure fixed in his positions from political birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Scorecard For The Game] Reference

The world has changed many times over, yet the term "class" somehow conveys some kind of rigidity, same as he worried.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Class Autobiography, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

It is not morally neutral for libertarians to purposely refuse to move away from an ideological rigidity which is chosen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge] Reference

Do we find this kind of rigidity in language also?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

The two halves of the widely-used Budner scale of "rigidity" do not correlate at all in fact!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interested-Participant] Reference

Israeli "rigidity" followed - policies unable to change Hamas 'positions or precipitate its demise.    From Wordnik.com.  [iToot Stream] Reference

It is fashionable among American conservatives to make fun of the "rigidity" of European labor markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Something about that kind of rigidity just doesn't feel like charity and love to me .... it doesn't feel like Grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Evidence for Catholicism] Reference

The lower half of Mr. Lipkind's face seemed to lock, as it were, into a kind of rigidity which shot out his lower jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference

These things do not aid in breath control in the least; on the contrary they induce rigidity which is fatal to easy, natural tone emission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers] Reference

"rigidity," which was applied to all without fear or favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Bradstreet and Her Time] Reference

B More importantly, it seems important to distinguish between different types of labour market "rigidity".    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Let Tyrone Off So Easily, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

What turned him was the "" fascist '' rigidity of the lib camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Are Incorrect, Sir] Reference

The intifada has generated an ambivalent rigidity in Israeli society.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We Can Do] Reference

Yet the same report also highlights a trait that still burdens Detroit: rigidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revving America] Reference

Conservative and liberal rigidity joined to create a tragic end to the war in Vietnam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case For Facing Facts] Reference

I was settling into a rigidity, I realized, and I was way too young for that to happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 4] Reference

The rigidity "stymies the ability of managers to compensate workers fairly," the report says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key personnel officials identify obstacles to federal hiring reforms] Reference

Government's rigidity raises basic issues of how well democracies can adjust to changing times.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Limits?] Reference

The major constraint here is that we still have more structural rigidity, and reforms take time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull At The Bank] Reference

Patients cannot control their movements; they suffer tremors, rigidity and eventually paralysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cures From The Womb] Reference

The rigidity of Aurangzeb's puritanical fundamentalism could not contain the diversity of India.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call To Arms For Pakistan] Reference

Resurgent state intervention will worsen the rigidity of Europe's economies and hamper entrepreneurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Globalization Revolution] Reference

The daughters of Japan's elite deemed themselves too modern to accept the tradition-bound rigidity of the royal family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Bride: Japan's New Sweetheart] Reference

Studies show that fonts with round O's and tails are interpreted as friendly, while angular types convey rigidity and coldness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Go to Helvetica] Reference

Resistance gave way thereafter to a delaying action, an excess of rigidity over the number, timing and format of the encounters.    From Wordnik.com.  [A SILVER BULLET] Reference

The heartlessness and rigidity seemed unimaginable for an organization that supposedly is trying to help animals find good homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weeping for a Dog's Fate] Reference