fixity

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

The earth was stamped with cloud shadows that gave an impression both of movement and fixity — a rich, dark earth with an inner seam that showed red and metallic in places.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

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

But the drive for fixity is thwarted by the form of this novel, which is determinedly fluid, as if in search of a style appropriate for the fluidity of the middle part of life.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 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

We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

He lapsed to the commoner persuasion of the great fixities and recurrencies of the human routine.

From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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