The shorts feature an elastic waistband and side zipper for easy on and off, and the length is perfect.
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Susan Brickell,
Travel + Leisure,
5 July 2025
Highlights include this wrap-tie shirtdress that has a relaxed fit and can be worn year-round, these gingham smocked shorts with an elastic waistband for comfort, and this Land’s End tank top that is ideal for layering or wearing solo.
Japan hasn’t been as pliant as Trump seemed to expect.
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William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Letz is a physically and emotionally pliant but also a verbose actor of great versatility, able to play a standard Second City dad and Chicag’ow type, but also a neurotic (lots of call for that in this show) and a dweeb and, well, whatever gets thrown his way.
Two ultra-limber actors — Hassiem Muhammad and Ryan Sellers — in garish body makeup (and dance shoes) merge limbs and psyches for an electric demonstration of poetry in motion.
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Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
26 Jan. 2023
For thousands of years, people have turned to yoga to feel more limber, release stress and rejuvenate their overall physical and mental health.
The web-like blue and gold dial is housed in a 40mm case made of tantalum, a very hard, ductile, lustrous, blue-gray transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Here, at least, the performers — who include Téa Leoni as Odell’s wife, the very funny Will Poulter as the Leopold son and Anthony Carrigan as a put-upon servant — have the kinds of ductile faces, rubber-band moves and vocal dexterity that can keep even sluggish material moving.
At an indie level, merengue also proved pliable, merging with metal and industrial riffs in psychedelic epics from Gallo Lester and Mediopicky, and providing a sinewy canvas for the poetic soul-searching of Rita Indiana and Xiomara Fortuna.
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Richard Villegas,
Rolling Stone,
7 July 2025
Toast the chiles in a dry pan over medium-high heat, flipping once, until lightly blistered and fragrant but still pliable, a minute or so.
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Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 June 2025
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