Word: rigidities
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...added, however, that the emerging pattern is a "continuum," and not a rigid line. "I have not created a neat, ordered list," he said...
However, some of the Union's demands seem unnecessarily rigid, given the tightness of University finances, and we urge the graduate student to revise or explain the reasoning behind them...
...also becoming obvious that the prisoners in the North had maintained a fairly rigid internal system of discipline and command. Communications among the prisoners appear to have been excellent. They exercised vigorously, kept their minds active by teaching one another foreign languages and other subjects. It probably was no accident that the men's statements as they arrived back in the U.S. had a certain uniformity. As for the antiwar statements that the North Vietnamese elicited from some of the prisoners, including himself, Robbie Risner said at a press conference at Clark: "I think we should consider the source...
Replays can also stimulate "retrospective shock"-the sudden recovery of old memories that may give insight into present troubles. After watching her rigid posture on the monitor for 15 minutes, one patient recalled a childhood fear: that she would be abandoned if she did not behave. That was the reason for her exaggerated self-control as an adult. Aware that the fear was no longer realistic, she became able to relax and behave more spontaneously...
...dead more than once. Still not content, Gardner spices his novel with allusions to Arthurian legend. And to all this he adds his own version of that classic Faulknerian tale of the decay of the proud and respected Compson family. It is all done in the same battered, albeit rigid, multi-consciousness point of view...