pliancy

Example Sentences

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That pliancy is part of what makes the term fun to use, and also why applying it to anyone so freely is a futile exercise.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

“Pero No Te Enamores” is Fuerza Regida’s most ambitious project to date, one that puts the pliancy of musica Méxicana to the test.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

Yet throughout there is a constant, distinctive search for a simple, singing sense of expression, for a pliancy of line, for a sophistication and sensitivity that lay in more than technical precision.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Robert Plant’s feckless pliancy throughout is hard to square with the exploratory nature of his later work.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021

Through their nervous pliancy one may learn as nowhere else the reality of Browning's "Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins