So careful had the Doctor been to educate every bodily and mental activity, that she had none of that discouragement, inelasticity, and indolence of mind, which comes of want of success in childish effort.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
This was mingled, too, with a certain fear of he knew not what; he feared her criticism, her disapproval; he felt his own dulness and inelasticity.
"Watersprings"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Automatism, inelasticity, habit that has been contracted and maintained, are clearly the causes why a face makes us laugh.
"Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic"
Henri Bergson