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
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
“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
The curse of knowledge, in combination with chunking and functional fixity, helps make sense of the paradox that classic style is difficult to master.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
He relates all this but little to the wishes of other people, to the inherent fixities of things, to his own future states, to whether one wish is compatible 54 with another.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The concept of mechanism suits the phenomena which occur within the zone of wreckage, on this shore of fixities and corpses.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent
