7 sentences with 'rigid'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rigid and other words derived from it.
• « Victorianism was the culture of top hats, dresses that covered every inch of the female body, rigid gender norms and an almost pathological fear of sexuality. »
• « Very quickly, however, the theory of evolution was taken over as a justification for both rigid class distinctions and racism. »
• « Although its religious policy was based on Wahhabism, the most puritanical and rigid interpretation of Islam in the Sunni world, Saudi Arabia was welcomed by US policymakers as another useful foothold in the oil-rich region. »
• « Less rigid in their ways, young people are more willing to challenge "the way things have always been done". Parents should encourage them to make this attitude a permanent habit. »
• « The lithosphere - the outer layer of the Earth - is made up of a small number of rigid plates of varying size. They move relative to each other at speeds of up to several centimetres per year. »
• « It may not be noticeable at first glance or from a distance, but all prehistoric painters more often than it seems. In fact, it is rare to see totally rigid paintings. »