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Proper names are rigid designators.
Nothing is rigid, and everything is movable.
I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.
Yes, I can be rigid and adamant about a point of view.
You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
I can be very stubborn, cold, strict, rigid, and - I'd like to think - driven.
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.
I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
When we went into 2015, we had our way of playing, and we were fairly rigid in what we were doing.
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.
I have grown a lot in this area, but I used to be quite rigid and found it difficult to accept change.
I'm almost a vegetarian. I have a very rigid exercise routine. I'm up at 6 A.M.; I take a lot of ginseng.
I do not usually follow a rigid fitness regimen, and most of it depends upon what goals I have in my mind.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
Some directors are open to ideas, and some are rigid. And, some actors are into method acting, and some, instinctive.
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
Rigid, state-enforced sex equality is a Marxist policy, pursued to the outer limits in the old East Germany and now being adopted here.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their employees.
If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.
We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
We have such a rigid idea of what heterosexuality is and that's problematic. We have such a rigid idea of what gay is and that's also problematic.
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.