All 10 Uses of
flexible
in
Snow Crash
- We're making bucks here-Kongbucks and yenand we can be flexible on pay and bennies.†
Chpt 5-6 *flexible = bendable or adaptable
- It is a living wall of light, like a flexible, flat-screened television set, and it's not showing anything at all.†
Chpt 9-10
- It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that's the only ratlike part-incredibly long and flexible.†
Chpt 11-12
- The aerodynamic cowling is totally flexible, calculates its own most efficient shape for the current speed and wind conditions, changes its curves accordingly, wraps around you like a nymphomaniacal gymnast.†
Chpt 35-36
- And you don't have that flexibility if you've got half a ton of personal stuff cached inside of a desk, strewn around a desktop.†
Chpt 37-38
- The suitcase has a noteworthy attachment: a flexible threeinch.†
Chpt 47-48flexible = bendable or adaptable
- After a few thousand years, one new language developed-Hebrew— that possessed exceptional flexibility and power.†
Chpt 55-56
- Finally, the raft is free and flexible once again, bobbing and waving back toward equilibrium, and where the trawler was, there's nothing but a bubbling whirlpool that occasionally vomits up a loose piece of floating debris.†
Chpt 57-58flexible = bendable or adaptable
- She taps a microphone that is projecting from a communications panel at the end of a flexible gooseneck-the same mike that the en was speaking into.†
Chpt 61-62
- Uncle Enzo has serious doubts about this fellow He is a blazer person, adept at running the smalltime bureaucracy of a Nova Sicila franchulate, but lacking in the kind of flexibility that, for example, Y.T. has.†
Chpt 69-70
Definition:
bendable or adaptable
in various senses, including:
- easily bent without physical damage or injury -- as of a hose or gymnast
- able to adjust readily to different conditions -- as of a plan
- willing to make concessions -- as of a negotiator or a boss