Melissa Leong

From hearty beet-red borscht and soft, pliable pierogi dumplings to dill-scented pickles and hearty braises, the food of Eastern Europe - that is The Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Georgia and their close neighbours - is tasty stuff, but it's never really taken off in Australia in any significant way.

Cathy Engelbert

The most common characteristic of childhood building toys is that they snap together in one way or another. Technology is constantly shifting, and we should make sure that whatever we build is interoperable and pliable.

American Businesswoman

Brett Hull

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

American Athlete

Quentin Crisp

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

English Writer

Tia Carrere

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

American Actress

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

American Author

Xun Kuang

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Chinese Philosopher

Abu Bakar Bashir

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

Indonesian Activist

Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

American Writer

Philip Zimbardo

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

American Psychologist

Pliable describes objects that can be easily bent without breaking.

Physical Properties

A pliable material can be strong and durable, not necessarily fragile.

Not Always Weak

Depending on context, pliable can suggest something is of good quality or useful.

Positive Connotation

Pliable can describe people who are easily influenced or adjusted to situations.

Influence on People

Being pliable is not always negative; it can mean being open-minded and adaptable.

Not Negative

 You know, back into his tank and pretend like nothing happened So clever, so, so clever. And of course, they are carnivorous animals eating fish in that aquaria. Typically the common octopus always out and about looking for crustaceans, crabs and shrimps. And its soft, pliable body means that it can slip down into those cracks and crevices.

Float Like a Butterfly…...

 To perform this vital task, red blood cells are filled with hemoglobin proteins to carry oxygen molecules. These proteins float independently inside the red blood cell’s pliable, doughnut-like shape, keeping the cells flexible enough to accommodate even the tiniest of blood vessels. But in sickle cell disease,

How this disease changes...

 To find their favorite food, sea lions hunt much deeper than many of their semi-aquatic peers. With some species diving to depths of nearly 400 meters, they’re able to cope with the mounting pressure by collapsing their pliable rib cage, and compressing a pair of springy lungs.

The lovable (and lethal)...

 Birmingham may be on the way to finding a method to induce molting which leaves the blue crab with a soft shell molting in the spring and early summer allows the crab to grow and before its new exoskeleton has a chance to harden the crab is more pliable for just a period

Soft-Shell Crabs Created...

 years without ever fading I got to heat up the insulation so it's pliable right now kind of stick I started with the string of lights around the house my neighbor across the street told me that when I moved in here he got to add something new every year you know that's

How One Man's Amazing...

 and bee hives hence the name honey badger and they seem to be immune to the stings of the bees a very thick fur and very thick pliable skin make them very very resilient even to a leopard a lion might kill them quite easily but a leopard well my leopard thinks twice

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 And the answer is microstructure. So this is a microscope image of the collagen in cowhide. And it looks like a mess, it's just this jumble of fibers mixed together. At its essence, that structure is why leather is both pliable and strong.

The Future of Fashion –...

 different than it is today you couldn't just buy these really nice pliable off-the-shelf drones I built this thing from scratch at at one point I was even pretty much just sleeping in the office to make sure that I could get this thing

Engineer Builds Drone...

 that makes our skin tough but pliable. Like the actin and myosin in our muscles that enable us to move. Or our blood is full of hemoglobin, ferrying oxygen around. Antibodies protecting us from disease,

How mRNA Medicine Will...

 is the same whether you're selling shoes or whether you're selling politics. The algorithms do not know the difference. The same algorithms set loose upon us to make us more pliable for ads

Pliable

Easily bent or flexible.

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Easily influenced or controlled.

Often appears as...

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