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

The earth was stamped with cloud shadows that gave an impression both of movement and fixity — a rich, dark earth with an inner seam that showed red and metallic in places.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

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

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