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Nor is it uncommon to see people bent in half, like twisted statues, because of muscle rigidity the firefighters refer to as the “Fentanyl fold.”

Even cynical moviegoers hardened by the rigidity of formula in so many other animated features will be hard-pressed not to root for self-sacrificing, determined and warm-circuited Roz.

Through his creation of Los Cenzontles in 1989, Rodriguez defied the rigidity of formal education and championed Mexican musical heritage, revealing how music can transcend boundaries and heal historical wounds.

When Powell died in 1998, the New York Times memorialized the distinguished jurist as a “balancer and compromiser,” a “political moderate” who disdained “heated rhetoric and doctrinal rigidity.”

Like the lofty political mission that the Jedi strive to uphold, however, their conviction to perfect their connection to the Force is clouded by a rigidity and haughtiness that pays little account for imperfect conditions and what exists outside the Jedi understanding of the world.