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    pliable


    1. Wasn’t that just what his parents had done? Maybe that was why she was so unsuccessful these days, she had to have someone so totally on her own terms that only a hatchling was pliable enough to serve? The female side of the advice Larneh gave Knume


    2. The future is still pliable


    3. Gingerly, Eric rolled the pliable screen around the phallus and held it in place with carpet tape


    4. He depends on the old liberal mantra that times have changed, and since our Founders could not know about the advancements of the present era, the Constitution must remain pliable or, as Thomas Jefferson warned in 1819, „…a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please


    5. Heat, without stirring, to 270 to 290 degrees F (132 to 143 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard but pliable threads


    6. Quickly rolling onto his side, he bent double, so that he could see what his leg had become trapped in, and discovered it was a strong, pliable plant stem, which had wrapped itself around his leg just above the hock


    7. Eminently pliable, the cops liked him well enough


    8. Remis would have to be made acquiescent in this matter, compliant and pliable as the Patriarch believed he was


    9. Instead, a great feeling of peace filled me, blotted out everything else until I felt soft and pliable in a great sea


    10. jumping into soft hot pliable warm flames that didn’t burn and that you never wanted to leave

    11. People are very pliable then


    12. came out as people totally pliable in the hands of


    13. And the system they run is uniquely situated to indoctrinate young minds at their most pliable stage


    14. Von Hagens invented a method of “plasticizing” corpses so that their tissue is not only preserved, but also kept pliable enough to be worked into the designs he offers as his art


    15. firmness of wood—she posits a more pliable communicating medium that bends at the air-water


    16. bery and pliable too – his head almost moulded itself like a


    17. Behind the fire lies the image of a meadow of summer corn, soft, pliable, ready for harvest


    18. Herein this place of timelessness, where thought is pliable as clay, I had the opportunity to choose betwixt realities


    19. After Roger had experienced the hard faced inflexibility of Gary David, it was a joy to have a pliable old fool like Brian Bell back looking after them


    20. They had expected him to look concerned, filibuster, but eventually start to be more pliable

    21. As you age, especially reaching the age of 40, your muscles would become less pliable


    22. Joe Billie squeezed the wet buckskins and draped them on branches in the shade not wanting to expose the sacred garments to the searing heat since rapid drying would turn the pliable buckskin to cardboard


    23. Now, all of these things were stripped from him, and what remained was new and pliable


    24. Add 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons water and the lemon juice to form pliable dough, and mix until smooth and elastic


    25. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes until pliable and soft


    26. The crowd held their breath, no-one within living memory had spoken the way I had to Yaotl, my mothers advice was certainly stirring up a hornets nest, after this day there would be no doubt in anyone’s mind who was leader of the Tolteca, I was going to make that very plain, Yaotl had still not made his appearance, an old trick he used to show his power over the people, keep them waiting and they become more pliable, so again I called in a loud voice so that all the villagers could hear


    27. on the bottom of them as thick, hard and pliable as old leather


    28. the new Grand Wizard and he - the King – would have a new, pliable magician at his side again


    29. ally formed a soft, pliable substance that shimmers like the sun


    30. Neanderthals were pliable, if you knew how to work them

    31. Bur the main principle of Tai Qi Quan didn’t change and is stated in the following principles: Statics begets dynamics; the pliable overcomes the rigid; the slow defeats the fast; the short defeats the long


    32. The pliable overcomes the rigid: make use of power of your opponent; attack suddenly, affecting points


    33. Most of the city was built out of bricks and mortar, but the spaceport was fully constructed of steel and reinforced with pliable Alutanium


    34. Jumping up to retrieve it in the living room, I hope with all my heart that it is Denny, somewhere, close by, with a pliable explanation


    35. Laeron’s hide was covered in scales smaller than Aesa’s hand, thick and pliable like leather, and always warm to the touch


    36. our conscious awareness it becomes plastic and pliable, e


    37. This is why ignorance and apathy are the twin evils of infotainment society, but they are not so much the choice of the user as they are the production of a pliable consumer – a mind rendered herdable by the cacophonous din of infinite offers and “new information just in


    38. The collective, operating as an organic body, selects emerging, mutating, and life promoting traits suitable to it, the Culture, to utilize the pliable, mirror-molding human mind to further itself as humans pursue their own improvement


    39. because we have accepted to be feeble and pliable


    40. She had not explored very far into her own resources yet, but she had begun lately to perceive that she was pliable

    41. This thought, that it must be the custom, made her instantly pliable


    42. Then this obedient thing, this pliable uncontradicting thing would return, for instance, from an illicit trip abroad, betrothed to an unknown foreigner, and somehow in spite of violent opposition marry him; or, as in this second volcanic upheaval, with no preliminaries whatever, refuse point blank--the final effect on Herr Dremmel's mind of her incoherence was a point blankness--to live with her husband as his wife


    43. cone while it is still pliable


    44. Olin knelt down and beneath the ice block, and in the space between the wooden blocks he tied the loose ends of the pliable wire together with secure knots


    45. He had learned how to first make the wood pliable by heating it in boiling water which then allowed him to bend it without the wood splitting, cracking or breaking


    46. ers notice that ski-boot plastic becomes softer and more pliable in


    47. It eventually formed a soft, pliable substance that shimmers like the sun rising or setting over an ocean of water as it slowly gives way to the darkness of moonlight


    48. production at the ovulation and the mucus becoming more pliable,


    49. mediocre student a mediocre athlete, pliable and friendly with my classmates but one thing I never overcame was my shyness and timidity


    50. 'And a fine set of public lavatories,' he said, staring mournfully at his pliable limb, 'Always clean



















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    Synonyms for "pliable"

    bendable pliable pliant waxy elastic flexible ductile malleable tensile tractile fictile susceptible impressionable yielding amenable willing docile supple limber bending mouldable

    "pliable" definitions

    susceptible to being led or directed


    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out


    able to adjust readily to different conditions


    capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking