Jagger's voice has lost some of its pliancy, but his appeal as a singer has always had more to do with the charming, sneering attitude of his vocalizing than with any technical prowess.
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The beauty of the term is at once its capaciousness and its pliancy; a media mogul can toss it around to sell air time while across the country a politician is using it to intimidate an opponent.
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The proposal was designed to make companies more answerable for their actions and to prevent corporate boards from functioning as rubber stamps for executives'action _ the sort of pliancy that occurred at Enron and other disgraced companies.
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Their new pliancy clearly reflected the recent military debacle of the Serbs in the Krajina region of Croatia, Karadzic's growing isolation, and the mounting pressure from Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian president, to begin negotiations.
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Autocar contrasted the car�s competence at " controlling wheel and body motion when traversing bumps and dips " but there were some instances when the vehicle�s pliancy was " mediocre " by provoking " annoying harshness through the body shell ".
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The way it folded with accordionlike pleats; its perfect combination of pliancy and stiffness _ these did away with the worst failing of a paper map, the cumbersome way it folds and unfolds, hostage to even the slightest breeze.
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Those who worked closely with the vice president cited his steadiness and his strength as an often welcome contrast to the pliancy of the president, who seemed to waver on his commitments to people and to policy, particularly early in his administration.
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Over the years, as he continued to explore the standard repertory, his performances took on a greater pliancy and warmth, qualities that were especially evident in two remarkable programs of Ravel and Debussy that he presented with the superb Cleveland Orchestra last month at Carnegie Hall.
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Swinton later reflected on the role in an interview accompanied by a striking photoshoot . " People talk about androgyny in all sorts of dull ways, " said Swinton, noting that the recent rerelease of " Orlando " had her thinking again about its pliancy.
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Some 20 years ago, when the Concertgebouw Orchestra was playing the Beethoven symphonies in New York and Washington, Haitink explained very simply how his strings managed their singular sweetness and pliancy and yet, in a twinkling, could deliver an ensemble sound of stunning richness and power.
