fixity

Example Sentences

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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 • Nov. 18, 2021

Here, mobility is in danger of becoming an abstraction, and, because Tokarczuk repeatedly returns to her themes, the ironic effect is of a certain fixity.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

“Perhaps falling in love in middle age is in part the desire to experience fixity again,” the narrator muses.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2018

In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.

From Scientific American • Apr. 17, 2018

Pairs used to maintain the fidelity and fixity of information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee