fixity
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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
As in so much of Shepard’s work, fixity is a mirage that vanishes when approached.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
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 Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
He lapsed to the commoner persuasion of the great fixities and recurrencies of the human routine.
From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
