The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor. . . . The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
