rigidity

How To Use rigidity In A Sentence

• The drop-in module, which adds to the stiffness and torsional rigidity of the whole vehicle, ties the car together from the seats rearward and from b-pillar to b-pillar.
• Taking up so much of the roof area, it has to stay sealed with the glass permanently in place to maintain the car's body rigidity.
• It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• But with such a supple, sensitive and compassionate mind, rigidity is something you need never worry about. Life Begins At 40 « Tales from the Reading Room
• Ancient sources alluded to this element of frigidity by categorising the sign as ‘slightly barren’ in matters of fertility, and drawing pre-pubescent youth or sexless beings into its symbolic expression.
• It is as if the rigidity of the object were at war with a softening, playful freedom.
• In other words, I am neither an anarchist who wants no government, namely unrestrained devitalization, nor a socialist, whose cry is for all government -- that is, restriction and rigidity. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
• But amassing information for its own sake seemed contemptible to Sontag, or pitiable, and like so many young people who hope to lead the life of the mind, she despised what she considered to be the airlessness and rigidity of academic life. Becoming Susan Sontag
• The fact that rigidity in the monetary unit's purchasing power is unthinkable and unrealizable does not impair the methods of economic calculation.
• What was more, I was determined to defy the frigidity of my race, that ancient shameful legacy of inhibition.