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 • Feb. 7, 2025

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

In seven essays in that book, she criticized postmodernism — “Pomoism,” as she called it — for its “denial of the fixity of the past.”

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2019

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

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