ductile

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ductile, each labelled with its topic.

• Focus groups are useful precisely because participants are ductile, shifting an opinion after one confident voice speaks first.

  Psychology

• The committee chair preferred ductile appointees who would echo his position rather than argue through a long afternoon.

  Politics

• The young heir is drawn as ductile, taking the shape of whichever tutor happens to speak to him last.

  Literature

• Plato argued that the young are ductile, which is why he wanted the stories they heard chosen with care.

  Philosophy

• The boy king was ductile, and each faction at court took turns shaping the decrees issued in his name.

  History

• A ductile board that approves every proposal is worse than none, since it never asks the founder a hard question.

  Business

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