pliant
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The world premiere by Fugitive Kind is directed by Amanda McRaven, a 2014 Ovation Award-winner for Fugitive’s “The Pliant Girls.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2018
The playwrighting award went to Meghan Brown won for her drama "The Pliant Girls" at the Fugitive Kind Theatre.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2014
Pliant and warm in the play’s opening moments, before the doctor has come, Ms. Oh reveals a fragility in the character’s psyche, expressed in her fluttering terror when those headlights strafe the room.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014
Pliant, springy, relaxed, and barely glancing at the score, he gilded the gingerbread to exactly the right, permissible degree and charmed us all.
From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2010
Pliant while an Austrian archduchess, she remained so as empress, apparently without will or enterprise.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
Vocabulary lists containing pliant
Mythology
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 2 of the epic poem
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Bless Me, Ultima
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