fixity

Example Sentences

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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

Here, mobility is in danger of becoming an abstraction, and, because Tokarczuk repeatedly returns to her themes, the ironic effect is of a certain fixity.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 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

As in so much of Shepard’s work, fixity is a mirage that vanishes when approached.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2017

It is the fixity of its text that makes it an immutable mobile, and it is immutable mobiles that are needed if facts are to endure into the post-print age.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton