Adaptability of mind or character.
1 All his success was due to his servile pliancy and base intrigues.
2 But the democrats averted this catastrophe by their sagacity and their pliancy .
3 There can be no such pliancy in the peremptory provisions of the Constitution.
4 My figure also lacks pliancy ; there is a stiffness about the side lines.
5 She displayed, in these court-contentions, an ability partaking both of firmness and pliancy .
6 The difficulty was, then, to give to old wood the pliancy of young.
7 The light of the full moon only added to that depth, that pliancy .
8 Then Fagerolles, beside himself, losing even the pliancy of his bantering disposition, retorted:
9 The garments represent a thick woolen stuff, whose folds show very little pliancy .
10 The smallest awkwardness or want of pliancy or self-possession would stop the whole process.
11 She was evidently a girl of a great personal force, but she lacked pliancy .
12 There was also a secondary issue related to pliancy .
13 The Negro was not the only one whom slavery subdued to the pliancy of submission.
14 Two humans unrolled a large, long sheet of what, by its pliancy , must be pegasus-made paper.
15 Their muscular force is not great; but the pliancy of their limbs renders them very active.
16 Knowing the pliancy of Dublin juries in political cases, the offer was, doubtless, a tempting one.
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