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

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 • Feb. 2, 2023

“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

The blind spot is called functional fixity because people get fixated on ah object’s function and forget its physical makeup.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker