fixed attitude

Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes.

In a fixed attitude of defiance against his own tyrannical father, Eugene decrees a life of enlightened autonomy for his son, unaware of the tyrannical nature of his fiats.

I could not finish admiring, and thought that never had anything so beautiful fallen in my way before; for even the sublime cloud-seeking instinct of the White Egret and the typical Herons seemed less admirable than this; and for some time I continued experimenting, pressing down the bird’s head and trying to bend him by main force into some other position; but the strange rigidity remained unrelaxed, the fixed attitude unchanged.

He crossed over to the bed, and stood looking down at it silently in a very fixed attitude.

However, as she was a person not without consequence in her own small world, this was her fixed attitude of mind in regard to the vast majority of her fellow creatures.