Meanings of certain rigidity in inglês

A certain rigidity of which he is capable stiffened him.

She was beautiful, but pride gave her features a certain rigidity which scared her admirers away.

He faced her with a certain rigidity.

Forbes's face, usually so classic in outline, assumed a certain rigidity, and his firm chin grew markedly aggressive.

Yet there was a certain rigidity in his face and glitter in his eye which showed that a crisis had come.

She had been sitting during the pause which followed Carlton's discovery with a certain rigidity, as if she was on a strain of attention.

His most conspicuous defect was a want of suppleness- acertainrigidity of spirit which, when he succeeded, was called firmness, and when he failed, obstinacy.