pliancy

How To Use pliancy In A Sentence

• Such ruminative, nostalgic music voices a lament for the Slavonic folk music of a fading past and therefore calls for more resonance and pliancy. In performance: KenCen Chamber Players
• Judo, the way of gentleness and pliancy, is one such path.
• In lyrical roles, most notably the adagio movement of Symphony in C, her gangly body with its penchant for rakish angles softened into willow-tree pliancy and she achieved a poignancy that seemed to arise from the music and be one with it.
• Mr. Carreño, substituting for the indisposed Maxim Beloserkovsky, supported Ms. Dvorovenko with strength and confidence, dancing with much of his usual impressive pliancy and unhurried finesse, even at this late stage of his career. These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers
• A little pliancy in the mind of an investigator can't hurt either.
• Part of the affordance of a button is its visual pliancy, which indicates its " pressability.
• She is blessed with an exotic natural beauty and a porcelain fragility which cleverly disguises her great pliancy and strong technique.
• He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s Memos for Justice Marshall
• These movements are delivered with pliancy and arranged sensually in minimalist sequences.
• Yet here, as many another time in these devious manoeuvres, that fearful dilemma interposed -- inseparable in its many forms from all collective action whether in cabinet or party; so fit to test to the very uttermost all the moral fortitude, all the wisdom of a minister, his sense of proportion, his strength of will, his prudent pliancy of judgment, his power of balance, his sure perception of the ruling fact. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859