Much of what is called her subservience, and even her pliability, is merely the subservience and pliability of a universal remedy; she varies as medicines vary, with the disease.
Now this sort of pliability does not merely prevent any heroic consistency, it also prevents any really practical compromise.
The adaptability and pliability of the Phoenicians was especially shown in their power of obtaining the favourable regard of almost all the peoples and nations with which they came into contact, whether civilised or uncivilised.
Beneath her pliability she was now all firmness; the pliability had become a mockery.
Mr. Gallatin, having more pliability of character and more playfulness of disposition, throws off my heat with a joke.
It is desirable that the pliability and ductility be preserved at as low a temperature as possible.
At each temperature the pliability and ductility were tested thus: [180] I am indebted to Dr.
It had the further effect of increasing the haughtiness of the Boer leaders, and infusing a corresponding spirit of pliability or generosity into the negotiations of Her Majesty's Government.
In order to mould thee into entire conformity to His will, He must have thee pliable in His hands, and this pliability is more quickly reached by yielding in the little things than even by the greater.
The laws of mechanism are the same whether applied to a man, or to a lever, or a wheel; but the man has more pliability than any combination of wheels and levers.
Circumstances cannot modify it; it ever remains the same, to sweeten existence, to purify the cup of life, to smooth our rugged pathway to the grave, and to melt into moral pliability the brittle nature of man.
Hence, the child will not appreciate the parent's motive, and will lack that pliabilityof spirit which is essential to reformation.
This illustrates the force of established habit, and the pliability of our nature in yielding a voluntary subjection to it.
Its pliability at that period insures its free assimilation to the spirit and truth of religion.
The parallel position and toughness of its fibers render it easy to split, and, when split, its pieces are of extraordinary pliability and elasticity.
Yet I am willing to forgo these advantages when I consider the wonderful pliability of the gut strings for which Stradivarius built his violins.
It is a great handicap to begin really serious work at seventeen or eighteen, when the flexible bones of childhood have hardened, and have not the pliability needed for violin gymnastics.
In no other group, perhaps, can the unlimitedpliability of the specific form, and its relation to Adaptation and Inheritance, be so clearly followed step by step; perhaps in no other group is the species so difficult to limit and define.
The sixty plates of figures accompanying this Monograph explain the extreme pliability of these small sponges "good species" of which, in fact, cannot be spoken of in the usual systematic sense.
So common a plant, with the peculiar pliability of the shoots that distinguishes all the family, was sure to be made much use of.
Both the names probably referred to the pliability of the tree, and there was another name for it, the Sallow, which was either a corruption of the Latin Salix, or was derived from a common root.
For this reason, while there is a distinct timbre for each kind of instrument, there are innumerable timbres of the human voice--as many as there are voices, and all due to the pliability of the vocal tract.
The sweet brightness of her manner was mingled with dignity, with the comprehensive sympathy and pliability of a woman of the world; an innate distinction of mind and person radiated from her looks.
Rachel looked at her father quickly, but with a pliability surprising in the male mind he managed to look unconscious.
There is no more pliability in her with regard to Asbury than there is in a steel rod.
The grander the nature the greater its pliability towards truth.
There is always a forcible turning and twisting, a struggle with the material part of the representation, as there is in mythical and distorted forms: nothing has the pliability of thought but thought itself.
On the other hand, its pliability as to form is very small, and therefore the cost of coining it would be high.
You see, then, why at first I experienced resistances, in spite of the pliability of the neck, of which I could not imagine the cause.
Thus, by means of this direct force a few lessons will be sufficient to give a pliability to the part in question that could not have been obtained by any other means.
Besides, it is important that thepliability and flexibility, especially necessary in the upper part of the neck, should be transmitted throughout its whole extent, so as to destroy its stiffness entirely.
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