fix upon

He was never less than eager, and sometimes almost good, if herky-jerky in his delivery, with a tendency to fix upon the cue cards, roll his eyes and shrug his shoulders.

“Theological writers have always been puzzled to fix upon any very definite idea in regard to the geographical—so to speak—location of heaven. But at last we have a philosopher sufficiently bold who undertakes to remove our perplexity, D. Mortimer, M.D. According to his theory, ‘there is a vast globe or world far within the surrounding photosphere of ethereal fire, the sun.’

“I’m inviting you to fix upon somewhere, not to take your eyes off it,” Roelants says in a French-accented voice.

It was the one place he could hold to, fix upon, identify as belonging to him.

The machine is fix upon fix, hack after hack, its safety mechanisms sawed off.