Maleable

Both treat human capabilities and preferences as a given, which they are not; both treat the non-human world as an infinite, passive, indefinitely maleable grab-bag from which we can take anything we want, which it is not; both are cavalier about the evidence on how people actually behave, gathered in economic psychology, behavioural economics, and increasingly neuroeconomics – but Austrian economics actually boasts about this. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The reality he creates is not concrete, but is a maleable substance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A = compliant/maleable and of course there is a small percentage who start off bloody minded! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The system persists thereafter, until someone gets the backbone to challenge it and the system chooses people who are maleable enough to turn into ‘box ticking idiots’ because of the inherent sycophancy it develops. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Yet it is the kind of thing that goes on in Portland (and elsewhere, I guess) ad nauseum to justify keeping maleable, less independent, types on the bench. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The mind is incredibly maleable and this talk of “pathways” is hoccus poccus at best. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They could pull the plug that fast, especially now with government shrunk small and maleable enough to drown in a bath tub. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Make it from the only metal maleable enough for a politician -- Lead! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Curious how maleable this 'experience and judgement about foreign policy' thing is when you look at it closely. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The theory is so wonderfully maleable that it works the other way too ... if she's ever complimented by a rightie, then THAT'S proof that they want her to get the nomination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Better to keep them ignorant and uninformed, and therefore maleable. ❋ Unknown (2007)

My son is a defined person, now, no longer a maleable character in the novel of my head, and I've been hyper-aware of this as I've struggled to put ideas down here: ones that I know he will not cringe to read in fifteen years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My least favorite flaw being: a liquid metal terminator stole her hot red leather outfit off of someone, but the clothes then acted as maleable too, rather than as actual leather. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Finally add the cheese and chopped coriander to the mixture and again mix everything well till it becomes soft and maleable, without any hard lumps. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Finding someone as complacent and maleable as him was not going to be easy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What is misleading, of course, is that even if one dies a horrible death by slow poison or torture, or the worst possible death you can possibly imagine, once rigor mortis releases its grip on the body and it always does, the corpse is totally maleable. ❋ Jan (2008)

But this last is chillingly interesting: The number of human beings living on Earth is the one area that is easily maleable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Do the same in 2010, by 2012 the system will be turned into a maleable structure to rewrite the voting rules and practice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[dude], [your mom is] so maleable ❋ Alex Erez (2011)