pliancy
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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
But theater artists, filmmakers and novelists, drawn to the interior richness of Chekhov’s dramas, have discovered not only the timeliness of his untimely work but also its aesthetic pliancy and openness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Joe Rong, a native of Taishan in Guangdong Province, China, grinds rice daily in electric stone mills to achieve noodles of remarkable pliancy and earthiness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
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 Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
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