Both Uses of
pliant
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She looked at his pupils, at the three pliant, agile figures half stretched on canvas chairs in poses of relaxed contentment, dressed in slacks, windbreakers and open-collared shirts: John Galt, Francisco d'Anconia, Ragnar Danneskjold.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- The luster of the cloth, streaming and shifting with her movements, made it look as if the light of the room she entered were her personal property, sensitively obedient to-the motions of her body, wrapping her in a sheet of radiance more luxurious than the texture of brocade, underscoring the pliant fragility of her figure, giving her an air of so natural an elegance that it could afford to be scornfully casual.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(pliant as in: a pliant individual) able to adjust readily to different conditions
or less commonly:
susceptible to being led or directed