pliant

• Amid the tree shadows, pliant, and the window-frame shadows, rigid, and the brass and glass reflections, semi- steady, Mr. Sammler wiped his shoes with the paper towel Shula had placed under the coffee cup. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
• For decades, having proven themselves politically useful when it comes to murdering leftists, trade union activists or uppity women and cultural workers, reactionary forces such as the TTP or the ever-pliant Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed are a shadowy "third force" that can be counted on by "Military Inc." to —  GlobalResearch.ca
• Hiram, during the interview, behaved like a model son--pliant, sorrowful, devoted, affectionate. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• It must not only furnish resistance for the focal point of the breath,--except in the very highest head tones,--around which it can be diffused; the same resistance, which stands against the stream of breath from below, must also afford a firm, pliant, and elastic floor for the overtones, which, soaring above the palate, shift, as is needed, to or above the hard and soft palate, or are divided in the nose, forehead, and head cavities. —  How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
• Without words to give it expression he saw in her attitude to the leader a pliant, docile softness, a surreptitious leap of light in the glance that fell upon him in quick welcome before her lids shut it in. —  The Emigrant Trail

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