He had the subdued manner and pliancyof people who do not feel that they merit what they have, and are ever trembling lest they lose it.
The plenitude and the pliancy of the Shakespearian mind may be manifested by a trivial circumstance.
It has proved the perfect pliancy of Gothic architecture to modern needs, and shown its power of entire adaptation to the requirements of new conditions.
Its traditionary adherence to old methods and its bigoted conservatism have been overcome, and with happy pliancyit has yielded to the demands of the times and adapted itself to the new desires and growing needs of men.
The stanza is rather complicated, although Burns, with his extraordinary command and pliancy of language, uses it from the first with masterly ease.
The smallest awkwardness or want of pliancy or self-possession would stop the whole process.
With a long reach of undefined purposes (the result of a temper too indolent for thought, too violent for repose) he has equal perseverance and pliancy in bringing his objects to pass.
Nor was her pliancy in the end effected by a less motive, than the fear of being chargeable with protracting the public calamities, and endangering the event of the contest.
There are some who would be inclined to regard the servile pliancy of the Executive to a prevailing current, either in the community or in the legislature, as its best recommendation.
IN HAND AT THE WALK] It is while riding at the walk that the rider may best obtain the seat and that ease and pliancy which is so greatly to be desired.
After having ceased for centuries to be a language of common life, the Old Slavic has of course lost that kind of pliancy and facility, which only a living language, employed to express all the daily wants of men, can possibly acquire.
Under this king all ordinances and decrees were issued in the Bohemian language, which gained prodigiously in pliancy and extent by the application of it to different uses.
It is ascribable to a functional derangement of the sebaceous glands, usually accompanied with dryness and loss of pliancy of the skin.
A bloody discharge is sometimes seen coming from the affected nostril, but this is not always easy of detection in cattle, owing to the pliancy of their tongues and to their habit of licking an irritated nostril.
Had Yule been content to manufacture a novel or a play with due disregard for literary honour, he might perchance have made a mercantile success; but the poor fellow had notpliancy enough for this.
As he watched her uncovering it, he was pleased with the grace of her arms and the pliancy of her slight figure.
The younger sister had been indiscreet, or at least unfortunate in her marriages; the elder believed herself the most enviable of wives, and her pliancy had ended in her sometimes taking shapes of surprising definiteness.
A rod constructed on this principle will afford just the requisite amount of resiliency for casting, with sufficient pliancy and elasticity for playing a fish, and embody all the power and strength needed.
Traces of old faults are indeed still to be discovered: there still seems a want of pliancy about the genius of the author; a stiffness and heaviness in his motions.
I am no bad neighbour, as perhaps you imagine; I have pliancy enough to suit myself to another, and here and there withal a certain knack, as Yorick says, at helping to make him merrier and better.
That, however, which the steel gains in hardness, it loses in pliancy and elasticity, besides becoming so brittle as to be of no possible use.
They are evaporated so as to unite these principles by degrees, and give them the pliancy and the firmness of paste.
She stopped in front of a small picture as if for the purpose of examining it; and there was something so young and free in her movement that her very pliancy seemed to mock at him.
Americans, rightly or wrongly, are commended for the ease with which they adapt themselves to foreign conditions; but Mr. Touchett had made of the very limits of his pliancy half the ground of his general success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pliancy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
