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• s  incapable of or resistant to bending
  a rigid strip of metal
  a table made of rigid plastic
• s  incapable of compromise or flexibility
• s  incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
  a rigid disciplinarian
• a  designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
• s  fixed and unmoving
  a face rigid with pain

• A few hours after the Senate Agriculture Committee voted 8-7 to continue high, rigid support of basic farm-crop prices (the House Agriculture Committee had already voted 21-8 for .
• He's just too strong and too tough to write good plots around those big muscles tend to break down any nuanced or believable plot-mechanics, and he's too morally rigid to be .
• Graham was far from the first dancer to rip off her toe shoes and break with the rigid conventions of 19th century ballet.

• stiff
• strict
• inflexible
• unbending
• fixed
• set

• nonrigid

News & Articles

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• Why Governments Need to Budget Over the Infinite Horizon
  How far into the future should governments budget? Economic theory has a clear and rigid answer. But it’s not one economists like to give – for two reasons. First, it’s not one people easily comprehend. Second, it’s not one that politicians, whose attention most economists covet, like to hear. The answer is that governments need to budget out to infinity. Infinity is a very long time. But ...
  June 14, 2013 - Forbes
• Brown retreats from conditions on university funding
  The budget plan to be voted on Friday will no longer tie money to transfer enrollment numbers and other measures, which critics called rigid and unrealistic. SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has backed off his proposal to tie some money for California's public universities to such requirements as improving graduation rates, enrolling more low-income students and freezing tuition for four years ...
  June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Why the Government Needs to Budget Over the Infinite Horizon
  By Laurence Kotlikoff How far into the future should governments budget? Economic theory has a clear and rigid answer. But it’s not one economists like to give – for two reasons. First, it’s not one people easily comprehend. Second, it’s … Continue reading ?
  June 14, 2013 - The Exchange via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Reuters
  Obama told ABC he would use his speech to "make sure that Democrats and Republicans understand that I'm open to new ideas, that we're not being rigid and ideological about this thing, but we do intend to get something done this year."
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in International Herald Tribune
  The president-elect and I believe that foreign policy must be based on a marriage of principles and pragmatism, not rigid ideology, on facts and evidence, not emotion or prejudice,Clinton said, her daughter, Chelsea, seated behind her in the...
• Cyd Charisse in FOXNews
  In 1996, Charisse recalled her reaction on entering the movies: "Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You'd walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies being made with the greatest talent in the world sitting there....