fixity

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Jeremy Strong, who, as Kendall Roy on “Succession,” turned ethics-free tooldom into poetry, finds his Cohn in verbal tics and locked-jaw fixity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024

“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

May’s simultaneous fixity and willingness to rely on her advisers has led people to wonder whether she is brittle, or wary of her own instincts.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 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

The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker