Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: Keep joints pliant and soft throughout all the movements.

Modifies a noun

• tool: This view reduces people power to little more than the pliant tool of the US.

• body: A hitherto pliant, forgiving student body has crystalised against Alasdair Smith and his ongoing academic vandalism today.

• rod: Pope writes:- Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand, The pliant rod now trembling in his hand.

Modifying Another Word

• not: True strength lies in a fearless powerlessness, that is not assertive but is equally not pliant to another's will to domination.

• too: Now this ' privilege ' has been withdrawn as a measure to weaken the none too pliant membership.