fixity
Example Sentences
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Her transfixing allure seems to draw every oddity and incident, but as the years pass, there’s also a fixity to her resolve.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a debate that presupposes a fixity, using language long-weaponized by conservative and far-right voices, that many are now challenging and rejecting.
From Los Angeles Times
For me, the emphasis on fixity as a measure of authenticity, as implied by the Foundation’s “core tenets,” deflects attention from the emotional probing that makes Gonzalez-Torres’s art so moving.
From New York Times
Though it takes place in the world of espionage, its surreal narrative drift resists the fixity of pulp beats and resolutions.
From New York Times
The earth was stamped with cloud shadows that gave an impression both of movement and fixity — a rich, dark earth with an inner seam that showed red and metallic in places.
From New York Times
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