What is "pliability"

Usage examples of "pliability".

Benny Hempstead always smiled and nodded acquiescence, but there was in him the strange persistency of a willow bough, the persistency of pliability, which is the most unconquerable of all.

Her example oddly gave him an understanding of how close he was to the same fracture line, gave him that necessary increment of pliability that kept him from breaking.

They believe that the female principle has such a pliability and its scope is so vast that its members are impervious to traps and setups and can hardly be held captive.

Her brows, thick and brownish against a soft skin showing the action of the blood, met in the bend of a bow, extending to the temples long and level: you saw that she was fashioned to peruse the sights of earth, and by the pliability of her brows that the wonderful creature used her faculty, and was not going to be a statue to the gazer.

And therewith such pliability as the Mother of Love requires of her servants.

Adele seconded the request with an ardour that reminded me how precious occasional holidays had been to me in my own childhood, I accorded it, deeming that I did well in showing pliability on the point.

She sought his arms, probing the traumatized laterals, kneading them to pliability again.

Do you not fall back on the plasticity and pliability of nature and take your air and exercise in large parcels?

There is by far too much pliability about him for principle of any kind, unless indeed it be a principle to please, no matter how.

The epidermis is especially unique, not only in its thickness and pliability, but also in that there is no layer of subcutaneous fat, nor can I discern any likely source for the secretion of the oily liquid that covers the entire body surface of the creature.