pliable
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The sculpture’s curved, draping form looks both stiff and pliable, cartoonish and menacing.
This paradox raised a fundamental question: how can the planet's solid center appear firm yet strangely pliable?
From Science Daily
If you can square those actions with Hernández’s pardon and not throw your back out in the process you’re either more pliable than most or willfully obtuse.
From Los Angeles Times
Eventually, it becomes pliable enough to pick off ground balls.
Canned crescent dough, improbably, was just right: pliable without tearing, sturdy without getting tough, and still capable of a respectable rise.
From Salon
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