Such cats can become a real problem if their rigid daily routine is upset - say by the death of an elderly owner.

All those rigid routines you keep to, they're to tell you you're all right, on track.

I dreaded going back to the rigid routine of the university.

He felt a mixture of astonishment at himself and irritation that his rigid daily routine was going to be broken after forty undisturbed years.

She held a rigid routine, awaking early in the morning in order to write before she left to teach.

The result was a rigid routine that seemed more martial than elegant.

The days became depressing and marked by rigid routine.

His parents, however, try to pin him to a rigid routine.

He has friends, food, clothes, indoor plumbing and a rigid daily routine that he welcomes.

He cannot maintain eye contact, talk normally or interact with others, and he depends on rigid routines for a sense of security.