fixity
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As the book progresses, she describes the pleasure of being in flux but also, increasingly, in fixity, routine, and things that are dependable.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2020
Yet, as L. A. Kauffman, an activist and a historian of protest movements, told me, the Kings Bay break-in, which was approximately the hundredth Plowshares action since 1980, reflects a remarkable fixity of purpose.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019
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
The pieces of fabric become slow-motion photograms, ghostly physical evidence of the church’s great wealth and its doctrinal fixity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
It is the fixity of its text that makes it an immutable mobile, and it is immutable mobiles that are needed if facts are to endure into the post-print age.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Equally, she is critical of “mastery” and the fixities of poetic craft.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
When Gabriel García Márquez was born, in 1927, in the sleepy little town of Aracataca, not far from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, there were certain established fixities in the world of letters.
From Time ● Apr. 17, 2014
Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He lapsed to the commoner persuasion of the great fixities and recurrencies of the human routine.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
