Synonym: adamant, firm, hard, stiff, strict, stubborn, taut, tense, unbending, unyielding. Antonym: pliable, yielding. Similar words: frigid, origin, originate, originally, aboriginal, originality, turgid, dig in. Meaning: ['rɪdʒɪd] adj. 1. incapable of or resistant to bending 2. incapable of compromise or flexibility 3. incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances 4. fixed and unmoving 5. designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure.
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121. There is therefore inevitably a friction between the rigid pacta tertiis rule and the progressive development of normative standards.
122. Its dripping wets the front of her dress, its rigid head glares over her shoulder.
123. That his warm breath on her face churned up her insides to such an extent that she was forced to lie rigid?
124. Take it easy for you're in danger of going overkill and boring people rigid with your long winded tales.
125. Group norms and values will act as constraints and even informal rules can be as rigid as formal rules.
126. After a few days, Neil would bend his arms when pinched, though his legs were still rigid.
127. In the west it is the Roman Catholic Church that holds the most rigid and illiberal religious beliefs.
128. The sluggish movements deep in the Earth eventually cause the rigid crust to fracture along great fault planes of weakness.
129. She suggests that hysteria was an alternative role option for women incapable of accepting their life situation in rigid family roles.
130. Without this adjustability, the neural circuitry would be as rigid as that in our consumer electronics.
131. Control subjects as well as patients with cancer or polyps underwent rigid sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy or double contrast barium enema.
132. Some acrylic easels are rigid with prongs or lips to hold the object.
133. Long rigid job descriptions serve only to limit profit contribution and inhibit the vital development of the job.
134. Any major changes were prevented by the rigid conservatism of the Church.
135. Our manager was so rigid, he'd never listen to our ideas.
136. She felt rigid like a telegraph pole, communicating perfectly, functioning flawlessly, but with no heart, no soul.
137. The cabin floor rippled underneath me with each wave, and it was impossible to lie rigid.
138. It is not possible to lay down rigid rules on sentencing - judges must be free to use their discretion.
139. The government had centralized political power and imposed rigid controls on economic activity.
140. He built the team through hard training and rigid discipline.
140. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
141. Or if we prefer organic matrix models, we become frustrated with rigid bureaucracies.
142. The subjects, even those in synthetically casual poses, have a rigid alertness that belies their awareness of the camera.
143. The stiff neck is a way of controlling feeling as are the rigid shoulders and the pulled-in gut.
144. She also knows that other religious denominations do not always take a rigid stand against abortion.
145. She has never hired anyone with a business-school education, because she believes such people are too rigid in their outlook.
146. Meryl stared unseeingly ahead, teeth clenched, rigid with an icy rage.
147. But at the level of field studies there was a much less rigid distinction between professional and amateur.
148. In Television, at this time, line discipline was as rigid as for twice-nightly, weekly rep in the Theatre.
149. After 18 months the law provides very rigid conditions for software registration and it will mean that every copy should be authorised.
150. She remembered John moving off to shake hands along a chain fence, his face rigid in the gray drizzle.
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