Oiie was an ethical man, but his private insecurities, his anxieties as a property owner, made him cling to rigid notions of law and order.

The very existence of multiracial people like Ms. Perry challenges this nation's traditionally rigid notions of race.

Ballet dancers with rigid notions of order and form would have had trouble handling these movements.

A Korean folk tale reflects the rigid notion of duty that makes compromise difficult.

Then, unhampered by rigid, traditionalist notions of what was masculine or feminine, he put on Grandma's nightclothes and crawled into bed.

It was only in the late 19th century that the Neogrammarian approach of Karl Brugmann and others introduced a rigid notion of sound law.

In comparison, holomorphy, or complex-differentiability, is a much more rigid notion.

The game does not enforce a rigid notion of character class; characters may use any weapon or spell as their individual skill levels permit.

Soviet ballet may be hampered by excessively rigid notions of how long works should be.

I can't imagine where you got your rigid notions about the weather.