Adjective : She manipulated the pliant clay. ,He has a pliant nature.    From Dictionary.com. 

She obeyed pliantly as the girl told her to spread her legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty]

People who agree pliantly with everything from the top but do their own thing are usually safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

And like Edward, we're drawn for the moment, pliantly, our desires for spectacle engaged at least a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

In his arms, with her mouth moving pliantly beneath his, she became only a woman he desperately wanted to touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where There's Smoke]

She urged, though without warmth, the necessity of rest, but gave way pliantly before Haluin's stubborn insistence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confession of Brother Haluin]

People who agree pliantly with everything from the top but do their own thing are usually safe. when describing the bobbleheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are you a bobblehead or a bumblebee?] Reference

Is this the start of what we will now experience for years to come - with the BBC just pliantly going along with the Obama PR machine, just as it has been going along with the Labour PR machine for well over a decade here in the UK?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-20] Reference

So I think you are simply an irrational bigot, who hates, hates, hates, without any particular distinctions or variation all those who, in your deranged mind, dare to “oppose” your ideologies by not pliantly following the self-serving, hypocrtical, insane creeds of the members of your “in” group of your social circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » POLL: Active Duty U.S. Soldiers Disapprove Of Bush Handling Of War, Do Not Support Escalation] Reference

She will join in a dance; and though her limbs move not so pliantly as might be expected of a lady no older than she would be thought, and whose dancing-days are not entirely over, yet that was owing to a fall from her horse some years ago, which, she doubts, she shall never recover, though she finds she grows better and better, every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

"I'll do just as you wish," she returned pliantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference

TownP 'Lord Hertford not having lent himself as pliantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Ireland: From Its Invasion Under Henry II. to Its Union with Great Britain] Reference

At sixteen, the woman's figure had been as pliantly slim, her step as light as was her daughter's now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Cumberlands] Reference

She sat with her hands folded in her lap, pliantly lending herself to the awkward motion of the animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference

The caribou that waited too pliantly in the cross hairs is doomed to become stew for Palin and an allegory for politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Then, swiftly, down came the dagger on Marchant's left side just over the breast, the rubber point bending pliantly as it descended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure-Train] Reference

His little eyes were like steel, humorously glinting gimlets in the process of boring, the old face wrinkling up around them as pliantly as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star-Dust] Reference

No administration in history yielded to Rupert so pliantly, he could add, nor suffered worse from the STD that must ensue on emerging from the Murdoch bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Media RSS Feed] Reference

"Who, prithee, are these?" asked I. "They are the Mockers," said he, "and the devils from pure derision essay to find whether they can be twisted as pliantly as their tales.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Visions of the Sleeping Bard] Reference

Yet, should this be so, I would not have it otherwise, I have never at any time striven to be one with the world, or to suit my speech pliantly to the conventional humour of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

In every possible way he employed the new force, which he found pliantly political, as well as intellectually and morally a choice weapon for humbling the bonzes, whom he hated as serpents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference

Under the pleasurable sense of freedom, thanks to the relaxation of the bit, with stately bearing and legs pliantly moving he dashes forward in his pride, in every respect imitating the airs and graces of a horse approaching other horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Horsemanship] Reference

He must concern himself with preparing for the vibrations, pliantly and with mobility, a powerful, elastic, almost floating envelope, which must be filled entirely, with the help of a continuous vocal mixture, -- a mixture of which the components are indistinguishable.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]] Reference

Such a difficult result was accomplished primarily by his quickness of eye in selecting the spots on which to place his feet, and also to a great extent by the fact that he held his muscles so pliantly tense that the weight of his body came down not all at once, but in increasing pressure until the whole was supported ready for the next step.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Places] Reference

But her strength was not equal to the task, -- her will-power was sapped at its root, and every day she allowed herself to become more and more pliantly the prey of Dr. Brayle, who, with a subconscious feeling that I knew him to be a mere medical charlatan, had naturally warned her against me as an imaginative theorist without any foundation of belief in my own theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

"And it is nothing more than the physical force of the magnetic light-rays within you, which, being focused in a single effort, draw the roses down pliantly to your will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

The first word of his teaching about nature is that she must be won by observation of her tendencies and demands; the same radical disposition of temper reveals itself in his dealings with men: they, too, must be won by yielding to them, by adapting himself to their moods and ends; by spying into the drift of their humour, by subtly and pliantly falling in with it, by circuitous and indirect processes, the fruit of vigilance and patient thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bacon] Reference

Whether it was that, in this pause from the toils of my career, my mind could more pliantly supple itself to her graceful imagination, or that her imagination was less vague and dreamy amidst those rural scenes, which realized in their loveliness and grandeur its long-conceived ideals, than it had been in the petty garden-ground neighboured by the stir and hubbub of the busy town, -- in much that I had once slighted or contemned as the vagaries of undisciplined fancy, I now recognized the sparkle and play of an intuitive genius, lighting up many a depth obscure to instructed thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference

Her curves molded pliantly to his manliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas! Lucky]

So pliantly docile his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects] Reference

He was tall, pliantly built, blond as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goose Girl] Reference

Gad, sir, every thing becomes you to a miracle: your peruke, your clothes, your hat, your shoe-ties; and, gad, sir, let me tell you, you become every thing; you walk with such a grace, and you bow so pliantly!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04] Reference