stiffness

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Stiffness and extensibility -- how far a material can stretch or expand without breaking -- are linked because they originate from the same building block: the polymer strands connected by crosslinks.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

Stiffness aside, “Boom Boom Pow” was better, as was the relentless “I Gotta Feeling,” which opened and closed the set.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2011

Stiffness wearing off, and so on and so on, until finally Miss De Boodle’s portrait is printed in nineteen Sunday newspapers all over the country.

From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by Bangs, John Kendrick

The Head should be upright and free without Stiffness or Affectation, the Face turned between full and profile, and not altogether full, as many Masters will have it, that being a constrained and disagreeable Figure.

From The Art of Fencing The Use of the Small Sword by Mahon, Andrew

Stiffness seems to me the most reprehensible thing in piano playing, as well as the most common fault with all kinds of players.

From Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Brower, Harriette