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malleability

ma lee uh bi luh tee

  • n  the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking

  • Based on a slender sampling of unfaithful wives, Heyn makes sweeping generalizations about the malleability and self-deception of American wives and their inability to assert their .
  • Her mouth always had a malleability that suited her comic needs, but now perhaps from aging, but more likely something less natural it's pursed, tense and mean.
  • The name of these entrepreneurial gatherings Bloblive aims to reflect the malleability of ideas.
Quotes

  • Jeffrey Friedman in Science Daily (press release)
    The malleability of these feeding circuits by leptin suggest the possibility that the brain's wiring may be different in lean versus obese individuals,Friedman added.
  • Jacques Audiard in The Age
    The Greeks had a word, metis, Audiard says, that means "cunning", and "for them it was a virtue. It was slyness, lies, intelligence, malleability; the qualities of a man who moves through the world and who adapts."
  • Rufus Wainwright in Herald de Paris
    Wainwright explained how, with this production, Opera North had taken the show to whole new level: "I wrote this opera to take place in one room in one day and now it's an extremely layered dramatic show. I wanted to impart a sense of malleability...

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