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With so much going on, there’s no time to make any of the action truly engaging, especially given Mr. Fleischer’s rigid determination to be as flashy as possible all of the time.

I am not saying everyone was a rigid 4-4-2 back in my day, because that's nonsense, but far fewer sides play with two strikers now.

Clarke's side rode their luck at times in their group opener in Denmark, but they looked a far more cohesive unit out of possession in a rigid 4-4-2 shape.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan could be imperiled by rigid government-imposed conditions on a contingency plan for reducing the blue-helmet force there, a senior UN official warned Tuesday.

Italian moms definitely have their own struggles: long waits for public services, rigid gender expectations, low salaries and long school holidays.