Voorbeelden van pliant

• Backing their faction in the country a pliant government was soon in place.

• The pliant, sunny melodies and beautiful part-sung choirs link up seamlessly with the texts.

• The pliant historian and courtier could be counted on to provide refined touches to official correspondence.

• The flesh is thin but pliant, grayish or pallid, cartilaginous, and lacks any distinctive odor and taste.

• The nest walls are pliant and soft but strong.

• The elm's wood bends well and distorts easily making it quite pliant.

• When putting out force it must pass through, penetrate, pierce, connect, be pliant, ferocious, round, firm, have a shaking-cutting strength, and deliver explosive force.

• They are aided in climbing with their black, pliant footpads with numerous ridges.

• They have specialist teeth that can macerate leaves and break up tough but pliant unripe fruit and the seeds embedded in the flesh.

• Though his refined, intelligent, atonal songs require advanced musicianship, the natural declamation and pliant, expressive vocal lines make them gratifying to sing.

• Wu uses young elm trees, which he says are pliant and do not break easily.

• Administration retaliated by focusing on agitators within the heretofore self-selective service clubs, suspending the clubs and then reorganizing them later with a more pliant membership.

• House-elves are generally obedient, pliant, and obsequious; and when enslaved, wear discarded items like pillowcases and tea-towels.

• A leaf of a book is a semi-pliant mechanism.

• The flesh is pale brownish ochraceous to nearly white, thin and pliant, with an odor and taste varying from very slightly to strongly like flour (farinaceous).