Word: pliant
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When a pro-Western military junta wants to win favor with the U.S., the preferred course includes holding relatively fair elections, then standing on the sidelines as a pliant civilian government is installed. If all goes well, the result may be more money from U.S. aid agencies. That is, unless the proposed new Prime Minister is an alleged drug trafficker...
...exchange for a substantial chunk of change, I promise to be a pliant, obedient guinea pig. The experimenter promises not to leave me a drooling, drug-crazed psychopath (unless, of course, he agrees to pay extra...
From its start in the cauldron of New York City's underclass, rap music's jolting energy and angry messages have been hostile to many outsiders, but to none more so than women. In too many rap lyrics, women are cast as pliant toys or conniving Delilahs. The male rappers who weave this image -- among them Ice Cube, Ice-T, Too Short and the Geto Boys -- spin exaggerated tales of salaciousness and violence, portraying themselves as potent, swashbuckling urban heroes. Since a macho image is a proven formula for success, rap producers were reluctant to sign female rappers. The music...
With his beer-barrel physique and pliant pudding face, Goodman, 37, has become Hollywood's hottest character actor. He has the nimble, dancer-like grace of such portly clowns as Oliver Hardy and Jackie Gleason, anchored by a straight-from-the-heartland believability. After a sweetly engaging turn as a lovelorn Texan in David Byrne's True Stories, he literally burst onto the scene in the 1987 comedy Raising Arizona, playing an escaping convict who, drenched in mud, erupts from the ground with a roar. He shone again, and added new shadings, as an over-the-hill athlete reliving past...
...sexually, we live now. But these sleek surfaces reflect hidden depths. He writes, "It was and is still my fate to like the settings and the personalities that enlightenment creates without wanting, myself, to be thoroughly enlightened." Looking back on his career, he criticizes himself for having been too pliant and obedient, too willing to "go along" with the exigencies of reality. But in the process he displays his self, the stubborn core that countered and threw waves back against the current of his times...