Word: rigidness
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...bathroom completely unassisted, will always be the center of our family. He never earned that role; his needs dictated it. I wasn't consciously resentful of this as a child. There was no more reason to be angry about this than there was about the rigid laws of basic arithmetic...
...fluid curve out of an originally straight line. As vehicles enter the terminal, they follow a twisted path around a static circle spoked by bus bays for arrivals and departures. As a result, the building possesses a dynamic interface between the passengers and their transport. This subtle bending of rigid shapes lends their models a palpable warmth, as realized in their Maria Colonel apartment block designed in the mid-1970s in Seville. The outer structure is angular and somewhat abrasive, but the courtyard within is organic and comforting, having been constructed in the shape of a kidney or an artist?...
...introduced as, among other things, an all-out assault on Christianity and nine months later it had proven itself to be just that. Though academia may demand skepticism, we are misguided when we impose our principles on other disciplines and suggest that those who believe in anything with the rigid confidence of a tightly folded flag or a crisp salute just have not thought about it hard enough...
...potent than Lancaster's. Lithgow, his soft lankiness worlds removed from Lancaster's coiled muscularity, puts surface charm on the scoundrel. He smiles, he effuses, he sings. This J.J. enjoys his venality, his sacred-monstrosity (it's good to be the king of the night); Lancaster's J.J. is rigid, watchful, a calculating machine, a new species - the prototype post-human. Something in Lithgow's J.J. wants to be loved, whereas Lancaster's J.J. simply is what he does. (Motivation? That's for infomercial spielers.) The difference in the two men is encapsulated in the way they say, "I love...
...that the new agency's tough policies could cripple a system that handles 670 million passengers a year. "The TSA has to allow security people to use their judgment," says David Plavin, who represents airport managers and owners. The system is no good, Plavin says, if it's "so rigid that people don't even want to negotiate...