fixedly

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After all, blinking fixedly wouldn't look very natural either.

From BBC • May 4, 2023

According to an explanation called opponent process theory, as you gazed fixedly at the green, black, and yellow flag, your retinal ganglion cells that respond positively to green, black, and yellow increased their firing dramatically.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

In that window, the traveler could see something like a fox’s head, its eyes staring fixedly at the dead woman, who was staring back.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2018

You see it in his 1866 portrait of his friend Antony Valabrègue staring fixedly into space as if in a state bordering on mental disarray.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2017

Frodo gazed fixedly at the red embers on the hearth, until they filled all his vision, and he seemed to be looking down into profound wells of fire.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien