pliancy

• “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

• “Small-scale J'aime Crandall performed with pliancy and ease.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Neapolitan Sunshine Brightens Danish Gloom

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers

• “Yet he could not shake from his brain and vision the warm recollection of those bronze slippers, that clinging gown, and all the feminine softness and pliancy of Dede in her pretty”

  Chapter XX

• “Such ruminative, nostalgic music voices a lament for the Slavonic folk music of a fading past and therefore calls for more resonance and pliancy.”

  The Washington Post: In performance: KenCen Chamber Players

• “Baidu is often described in the press as China's "home-grown" internet portal and search service, as though its native parentage somehow explains the company's reported pliancy in acquiescing to government censorship demands.”

  Peter Scheer: More Power to Google in China: Why Does US-Backed Baidu.com Get a Pass?

• “The richness and pliancy of the chorus and orchestra was a central element in the performance in both operas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Long Night's Journey

• “There was a college wrestler; a Korean green belt in karate; an innocuous looking little finance clerk who once called out the five guys who had been chiefly harassing him, mistaking his amiable grin for pliancy, and had all five on the ground in about a minute each.”

  Fictionaut: Pacific Light

• “He slipped his hand into the shirt and filled his hand with the soft pliancy of her breast.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Year of Living Scandalously

• “McGregor brings a sweetness and pliancy to the role that can't mask Phillip's determination to stay out of jail.”

  The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: I Love You Phillip Morris

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