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The IPO was canceled, Neumann was pushed out by his formerly pliant board of directors, and WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, couldn’t even lay off employees because it couldn’t afford severance packages.

The pliant brain of a newborn infant is shaped in relations with the world mediated by the adults who take care of her, starting with the maternal gaze.

The ad reminds readers that there is no income tax in Texas, that the state has budget surpluses and “pliant labor laws.”

Bank bosses who refused were simply replaced with pliant sycophants.

He called that pliant decision the biggest mistake of his presidency.

She did not speak; she moved her fingers caressingly over his hand, thinking how pliant and feminine, how characteristic, it was.

To know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.

Other men might find her pliant, pleasing, seductive; he alone knew her as disinterested.

Not merely tall, but pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree.

In every American city with a large pliant foreign vote have appeared the boss, the machine, and the Tammany way.