pliant造句

But will Congress really be so pliant?

She lay pliant in his arms.

He was deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor.

Any object that can be picked up and dragged is pliant, and every cell in a spreadsheet and every character in a word processor document is pliant.

Users expect to see the button move—the pliant response—and you must satisfy those expectations.

For example, a button control is pliant because it can be "pushed" by the mouse cursor.

When it is dragged over pliant areas, an additional percussive tap could indicate this collision.

We use the term pliant to refer to objects or screen areas that may be manipulated by a user.

As pliant as silicon has been over the last half-century, carbon nanotubes have some significant advantages.

The pliant response is also an important part of the cancel mechanism. When the user clicks down on a button, that button responds by becoming indented.

If the user then releases the mouse button, the onscreen button will not be activated (which is consistent with the lack of pliant response).

The sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite; urbane and pliant... he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris.

The rest of the window is not pliant for repositioning, so the click-and-drag idiom is available for functions within the window, as you would expect.

The check box has a strong visual affordance for clicking; it appears as a pliant area because of a mouseover highlight or a 3D “recessed” visual treatment.

He could take a short break from the Kremlin and move into the prime minister's chair, leaving Mr Zubkov (or another pliant candidate) to look after the Kremlin for a while.

But he could change his mind especially if the Republicans plump for one of their scarier ideologues-mr Gingrich? -instead of the pliant Mr Romney thus creating an opening in the centre.

For 30 years, Singapore has been widely seen by both foreigners and locals to be a country where the climate for opinion is sterile, and a society peopled by a pliant population.

In most cases, the fact that an object is pliant should be communicated to users. The only situation where this isn’t true is when you are concerned with presenting rich, complex functionality solely to expert users with no concern about their ability to learn and use the application.