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
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
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 profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers.
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 lapsed to the commoner persuasion of the great fixities and recurrencies of the human routine.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
