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
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
In seven essays in that book, she criticized postmodernism — “Pomoism,” as she called it — for its “denial of the fixity of the past.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2019
Yet, as L. A. Kauffman, an activist and a historian of protest movements, told me, the Kings Bay break-in, which was approximately the hundredth Plowshares action since 1980, reflects a remarkable fixity of purpose.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019
Pairs used to maintain the fidelity and fixity of information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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 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 Alice Freeman Palmer
In the turbulent confusion of his mind, the Squire still clung to certain fixities.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
