How To Use Rigidly In A Sentence
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The gardener roared nearby on his machine, eyes rigidly averted.
Somewhere East of Life
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It has oval leaves and reddish-orange berries on long branches that have until recently been rigidly tied in against the wall.
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His gaze was rigidly fixed ahead.
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Her torso is rock hard, squeezed by metal struts that also keep her back rigidly upright.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your potager is a FORMAL, rigidly GEOMETRIC garden that is an integral part of your landscape design.
FRENCH KITCHEN GARDENS 2009: MAKE WAY FOR THE POTAGER
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Call me rigidly European, but it offends my sense of food order.
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The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.
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The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.
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Guidelines that disseminate new information and provide advice are welcome, but they should not be couched so rigidly as to present clinicians who practise in the current defensive culture with insoluble dilemmas.
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Imagine the escapement-wheel of a common dead-beat clock to be mounted on a collar fitting easily upon a shaft, instead of being rigidly attached to it.
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Tertullian, for example, writing at the beginning of the third century says: "Among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into the sacerdotal order must be men of one marriage; which rule is so rigidly observed that I remember some removed from their office for digamy.
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He maintains a rigidly right-wing political stance.
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In a traditional Chinese family filial piety is rigidly observed.
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At the beginning of the war, patrol and legislative enactments were rigidly enforced.
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If we rigidly hold people to their commitments to serve, we can do irreparable damage to them and the work they've done.
Christianity Today
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There is also a danger that, if too rigidly enforced, the existence of copyright could become a tool for censorship or a bar to the free circulation of ideas.
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His gaze was rigidly fixed ahead.
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Despite his living in a rigidly patriarchal society his strongest and most memorable characters are all female.
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What's this all about?" bellowed Jameson, peering amazedly into the blank eyes of Augustine, who stood rigidly before the iconoscopic eyes and microphones.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Her torso is rock hard, squeezed by metal struts that also keep her back rigidly upright.
Times, Sunday Times
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So far we have briefly explained how a free-floating and a rigidly fixed exchange rate system are supposed to operate.
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Before the 1990s this genre was practiced on a rather small scale, not least because of political repression and a conservative, rigidly regulated bureaucracy.
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His armed were pinned down at his side, his legs locked rigidly parallel of each other.
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I have reservations about this rigidly monochromatic approach.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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He stepped forward rigidly, his eyes locking on hers.
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Following intubation, the patient is positioned & head fixed rigidly on mayfield clamp
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How rigidly people follow the rules may depend upon how strictly the rules are enforced.
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Like Ines and Susana, Beatriz takes refuge from a rigidly structured, unaccommodating, and cruel world by alienating herself from it.
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Under these conditions of joint US-Israeli intransigency more rigidly in place today than ever, how can there ever be a meaningful peace process.
Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar's New Book - Perilous Power
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Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent?
Saint Ronan's Well
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The speed limit must be rigidly enforced.
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Evening clothes were part of Cecil's training, and he kept to them rigidly, putting on each night for dinner what Murty O'Toole, having seen in wonder, referred to as "a quare little cobbed-shwaller-tail jacket.
Mates at Billabong
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Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies.
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I believe that a rigidly Patriarchal culture cannot tolerate the empowered creative voice of Women.
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Balanced between neoclassicism and romanticism, the composition appears at once rigidly stable yet inherently fluid.
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Capello is still relatively inexperienced as a national coach, and by his own admission he is still learning, yet if he rigidly sticks to the formula he laid down as a club coach he may never learn quickly enough.
Emile Heskey snubs England return but Wayne Rooney keen to play
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Were those artillery gunners hurting anyone by snapping rigidly to attention?
The Constraints of Corporate Tradition
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The word byzantine is often applied to a group of intricately connected and rigidly applied regulations or traditions, or to a complex bureaucracy that insists on formal requirements.
Byzantine Empire
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A rigidly-mounted fabricated-steel front sub-frame supports the engine mounts, suspension control arms and an electric-power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering gear.
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They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness.
The Complete Father Brown
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These systems are often rigidly organized and protective of their members.
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All that stayed with me after Keane was an unhappy impression of all-abiding tonal uniformity in the hush-tone vespers of dialogues, unhandsome, shallow mise-en-scène, and rigidly adhered-to aesthetic tenets.
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The curriculum is rigidly prescribed from an early age.
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The book is rigidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, and by all branches of ornaised ecclesiasticism.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Work on the Nrcromonicon Version 1.2 by Kendrick Kerwin Chua
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It was written by her husband, yet its style was rigidly formal, consistently using her surname alone.
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The scriptorium was a great writing school too, and the rules of the art of writing which were laid down there were so rigidly and severely adhered to, that to this day it is difficult to decide at a glance whether a book was written in St. Alban's or St. Edmund's Abbey.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
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Nevertheless, eighteenth-century writers did not conceptualize human diversity in rigidly hereditarian or strictly physical terms.
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She remembered walking rigidly up the stone steps in her white lace, with the stockings too tight and the white shoes pinching and the back of the dress itchy.
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The gardener roared nearby on his machine, eyes rigidly averted.
Somewhere East of Life
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And the dynamic impedances of rigidly-capped pile groups are derived by (adopting) the dynamic interaction factor.
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Some live life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the book and get stuck by the hook. Break free today, let conscience guide your way. RVM
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I knew his rigidly hostile views on abortion.
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Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies.
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We are, in part, natural beings, but we alone among the animals are in some ways alienated from the natural world in which we live. Fundamentalist creationism and rigidly atheistic evolutionism are both pretty implausible.
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That doesn't mean you have to like it, but music this stark and astringent seems astonishing in these rigidly conformist times.
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And as with Argentina's pre-2002 "convertibility" regime, which rigidly pegged the Argentine peso to the dollar, Greece is denied the one policy option that could ease its economic pain: a currency devaluation.
Greece Is Suffering From Argentina's Disease
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The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The social positions of the two groups were even more rigidly differentiated; those of the fifth rank and upwards being termed tenjo-bito, or men having the privilege of entree to the palace and to the Imperial presence; while the lower group (from the sixth downwards) had no such privilege and were consequently termed chige-bito, or groundlings.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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I have to plan my academic work very rigidly and set myself clear objectives.
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For one, it is even more rigidly unable to cope with changes in the pool than an old industrial firm coping with an intransigent union.
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He maintains a rigidly right-wing political stance.
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The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.
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So I immediately wrote this off as yet another attempt by geeks to cope with the social chaos of everyday life by rigidly systematizing it.
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They lived in atrocious conditions and were rigidly controlled by their elders.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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In "satyriasis," with its connotation of pathology, he has found his true tone, which he extends in denouncing among homosexuals "a dreary sexual conformism ... rigidly defined and routinized sex moves in the theatrical costume of police or ranch wear [sic].
An Exchange on AIDS
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Totalitarianism is a subset of tyranny, and a rather small and rigidly definable subset; and all of its essential defining qualities are either inventions of the extreme Left, or aped from the extreme Left by liberty-hating nationalists.
Radically dishonest
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Previously, all western religions, even the masons, had been rigidly patriarchal.
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I knew his rigidly hostile views on abortion.
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They lived in atrocious conditions and were rigidly controlled by their elders.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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South Africa should have a predominantly unified legislative and administrative fiscal and public financial system: it should be a joint fiscal system under leadership of national government, and not a rigidly divided system between national and provincial levels of government*.
Building a United Nation
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Some live life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the book and get stuck by the hook. Break free today, let conscience guide your way. RVM
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The comparative method is not really a term referring to a fixed procedure that is to be followed rigidly.
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The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.
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At one point in the book you describe Central Asia as "Massive, sometimes flat, sometimes mountainous, sometimes terrifically hot, other times frigidly cold, plagued with thousands of miles of penetrable borders, lacking an identifiable geographic center, and home to citizens know figuratively and sometimes literally to cut the colonialist's throat
the death sentence of several empires which attempted to hold onto it.
A Conversation with Tom Bissell
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The curriculum is rigidly prescribed from an early age.
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He wondered if he was becoming a self-operating mechanism, like a humanoid robot that understands two hundred voice commands, far-seeing, touch-sensitive but totally, rigidly controllable.
Falling Man
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To allow movement from thermal and other forces, the roof is not fixed rigidly to its supports.
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If you'd rather be fluid, flexible and unruffled than frustrated, flustered and furious, don't get too rigidly attached to particular structures or specific results.
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Ladies are reminded that the regulation prohibiting unprotected hat pins projecting from hats will be rigidly enforced.
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Sissy stood, little scarlet thumbkin dangling rigidly at her side.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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The loudest voices talking about religion are either so rigidly and judgmentally Christian that I'm tempted to chuck my Bible at someone, or so smugly secular that I want to pray in public to affirm that faith can be a good thing.
Serene Jones: Hate And Hope
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They have rigidly stuck to the same formula, devoid of originality or innovation, and bored everyone silly in the process.
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As people like (Douglas, author of Generation X) Coupland have been pointing out for years now, X is more a sensibility than a rigidly confined demographic.
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Standing rigidly by a decision which is wrong, or ill-judged, is obviously tempting, but in the long term is likely to be counter-productive.
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One of the core tenets of republicanism is equality of treatment, and this should apply rigidly to all areas of government activity throughout Ireland.
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You were lucky to have such an attractive wirepuller," I frigidly announced.
The Prairie Mother
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The company's structure is rigidly hierarchical.
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Her torso is rock hard, squeezed by metal struts that also keep her back rigidly upright.
Times, Sunday Times
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Founders of urban ecovillage projects must usually forego any dreams of straw bale or cob structures, because building codes often are rigidly enforced.
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Groton is the most rigidly British of the bunch, being founded on a very different basis from the Academies and closely modelled on contemporary British public schools, which its headmaster attended.
Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias on Maddow
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The French adopted a rigidly set-piece defensive attitude, epitomized by the Maginot Line, while the Germans opted for fluid mobility, eventually epitomized by the panzer divisions.
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I don’t think so – I think that rigidly stating that the only truly authentic hot and sour soup in the world has duck blood in it and certainly not lemongrass is promoting food snobbery and is ultimately detrimental to the understanding that cuisines develop and grow over time.
Tigers & Strawberries » What the Hell Does Authentic Mean, Anyway?
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We drove with a prominent Teotitlan Zapotec elder up the dirt road to Benito Juarez to observe the valley from this height, climb to the local mountaintop mirador and, well, to drink some cold beer but when we arrived in Benito Juarez, the road was blocked by locals for reasons I still cannot fathom so we were told that it would be necessary for us to park at that spot and walk the rest of the way up the hill (for reasons I could not fathom as the road continued to our destination) which we did and the view from the mountaintop over the expansive Oaxaca Valley was supurb but the point is that here we were a mere 12 kilometers from the ancient village of Teotitlan and guests in the also ancient village of Benito Juarez and protocols were rigidly adhered to even though our Teotitlan host was among the most prominent elders in Teotitlan only 12 kilometers distant.
Rigidly Observed Protocols
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They lived in atrocious conditions and were rigidly controlled by their elders.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Zwick's videoXtens extensometer, which is rigidly fixed to the machine frame, allows for non-contact strain measurements of materials that undergo medium to large deformations.
Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox
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If you want my full and undivided attention-- I mean, if you want me rigidly alert like a German guard-dog-- simply compile an intriguing set of "dots" which include phrases like: "...he never realized he was being used as a cat's-paw in a conspiracy.
Your Right Hand Thief
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You see, my uncle has certain fixed views, certain principles which he adheres to rigidly.
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The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.
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The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The new R-F-T AR-51 uses only premium components, including a vintage New Old Stock (NOS) tube that has been rigidly tested for noise and microphonics, as in the ELA M 251E.
Mix
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It may free men and women from performing their constricted gendered roles that are dualistic, rigidly defined, and ultimately destructive.
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These can rang e from a completely free float to an exchange rate rigidly pegged to another currency or basket of currencies.
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The fiddler now put away his violin and sat rigidly to attention, his fare adequately covered.
THE QUEST FOR K
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I'm sure you all know that under the rigidly tight appellation AOC system the French have in place, that wines from a particular appellation or place must be from designated grape varieties, and in the case of Sancerre, wines must be made from either sauvignon blanc or pinot noir grapes.
At My Table
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Ondine's had the reputation of being both smart and raffish, lavish and louche at the same time as rigidly exclusive.
THE WHITE DOVE
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He sat down awkwardly and remained rigidly upright, glaring fixedly at the Turner interpretation of the Grand Canal facing him.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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The less rigidly structured and non-facty the documents need to be, the more that alternative schema languages, notably RELAX NG, have been taken up.
O'Reilly News: XML
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Tykwer sets up nearly every scene, every location, with long shots in which people are dwarfed by the massive, rigidly designed buildings that loom over them, buildings in which the grids of glass and steel are emphasized with the poeticized precision of Saul Bass' famed opening to Hitchcock's North By Northwest.
The International
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So far we have briefly explained how a free-floating and a rigidly fixed exchange rate system are supposed to operate.
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Also available was a sample of the Workhouse inmates diet of some carefully measured and rigidly controlled amounts of bread and stirabout, washed down with cocoa or a nip of whiskey.
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If we rigidly hold people to their commitments to serve, we can do irreparable damage to them and the work they've done.
Christianity Today
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The reason for this might have been found in the fact that acquired characteristics do not receive the stamp of heredity in one generation — his father was a self-made man, and had taught himself rigidly to conventionalise; and it might have been found in the fact that his mother had impressed upon his youthful mind the code of polite procedure in a way which made it appear an unpleasant duty — a mask, highly distasteful, but which must perforce be donned under certain conditions.
THE UNMASKING OF A CAD
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In those arenas in which segregation was either law or custom, it was applied strictly and rigidly.
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Accelerations were measured using accelerometers mounted rigidly to the vehicle and connected to a data logger.
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Shooting doesn't require the knees to be visibly bent; the point is they shouldn't be rigidly locked.
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[Preface to the [4] Collection of Hymns for the People Called Methodists] It was a merit in Wesley’s eyes, not because of any rigidly bibliolatrous notions, but partly because, as a scholar and a gentleman, he liked to see great things clothed in great language.
The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers
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The gardener roared nearby on his machine, eyes rigidly averted.
Somewhere East of Life
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The Labour Government rigidly stuck to Conservative spending targets in its first two years of office.
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If you insist, we shall rigidly enforce that provision, in the courts if necessary which would ruin your career once and for all.
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As in other highly militarized states, Aztec society was rigidly hierarchical and extremely punitive.
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We hope the proposals to make vending machines 'childproof' will be rigidly enforced and that if they don't work, then this issue will be revisited by ministers, "the group said.
U.K. Will End Cigarette Displays
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The term Central Asia is here used to denote the Tarim basin, without rigidly excluding neighbouring countries such as the Oxus region and
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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You see, my uncle has certain fixed views, certain principles which he adheres to rigidly.
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The two shell valves would have been rigidly fixed in place, and the dorsal margin could not have been more than a poorly elastic structure, if that.
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He expressed the possibility that the pentamerous condition of the water vascular system might be ‘rigidly programmed into the developmental process.’
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Gabe sat up rigidly and attempted to help Sara through a frame that was about two sizes too small for someone with as impressive of a bust as her.
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Balanced between neoclassicism and romanticism, the composition appears at once rigidly stable yet inherently fluid.
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Now if we use a system of co-ordinates which is rigidly attached to the earth, then, relative to this system, every fixed star describes a circle of immense radius in the course of an astronomical day, a result which is opposed to the statement of the law of inertia.
Chapter 4. The Galileian System of Co-ordinates
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Discussions are sometimes abusive and unpleasant, and often sterile and unproductive, with most people adhering rigidly to their long-entrenched prejudices.
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Some live life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the book and get stuck by the hook. Break free today, let conscience guide your way. RVM
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The axes, allées, triumphal arches, colonnades, rigidly symmetrical planting and carefully controlled vistas of past landscapes are vivid expressions of domination.
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Some live life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the book and get stuck by the hook. Break free today, let conscience guide your way. RVM
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the body was rigidly erect
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The prototype is rigidly tested in message encoding level and transaction level.
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They were neither peaceful nor modest instances of historical agency — in spite of the prevailing social paradigm which rigidly curtailed the scope of women's activities and life choices across the social classes and which persisted well into the twentieth century — and nor were their contributions obscured from the historical record.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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The _first glume_ is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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When I broke in back in 1986 as a play-by-play announcer, the position was pretty rigidly defined.
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This wilful escape from the straitjacket of her rigidly choreographed, big-budget productions was clearly as much fun for her as it was for the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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His gaze was rigidly fixed ahead.
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If you want my full and undivided attention-- I mean, if you want me rigidly alert like a German guard-dog-- simply compile an intriguing set of "dots" which include phrases like: "...he never realized he was being used as a cat's-paw in a conspiracy.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies.
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There's no rigidly defined technical definition of multitasking (as opposed to, say, how TCP/IP works), so Apple can get a pass on saying "many things happening at once triggered by separate apps and controllable" is multitasking, when this is really something different.
Remember The iPhone? « PubliCola
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The human sciences, serving as a conservative guarantee against this tide of change, rigidly reinforced conventional certitudes about racial, social, sexual, and political hierarchies.
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Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent?
Saint Ronan's Well
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At last my mother made up her mind on Peter, both syllables to be rigidly enforced.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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For the moment hordes of visitors tread warily around it, even though it's fenced off and held rigidly in place by massive steel cables attached to an unattractive girdle.
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Balanced between neoclassicism and romanticism, the composition appears at once rigidly stable yet inherently fluid.
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He rigidly walked forward, his jaw clenched as he fought with the nausea tightening his stomach.
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This wilful escape from the straitjacket of her rigidly choreographed, big-budget productions was clearly as much fun for her as it was for the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a traditional Chinese family filial piety is rigidly observed.
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Johnny Got His Gun, wherein a maimed soldier, rigidly comatose, is agonizingly aware of his surroundings while utterly unable to communicate even a hint of his own sentience to those around his bed.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
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In his handling of the French octosyllable he at once displays that impatience of the rigidly syllabic system of prosody which Teutonic poetry of the best kind always shows sooner or later.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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But in Asia the frontiers are not thus rigidly delimitated, nor are God and man thus opposed.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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If the road traffic law were rigidly enforced the railway might hope to obtain a large amount of business which now goes to motor trucks and omnibuses.
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Soon, she was flipping out her hands and shaking her hips rigidly as if her body parts were attached with strings and the evil DJ was controlling them.
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On the tenth day, the good Mussulmauns rigidly fast until after the third watch; not even a drop of water, or the hookha, enters their mouths; -- as they believe Hosein's sufferings only concluded just before the third watch, they cautiously abstain from indulgences, until that hour has passed.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
