fixedness

Example Sentences

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Relational identity allows both sides to preserve their autonomy but also work within their shared space, an achievement of both fluidity and fixedness.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

For now, the authors continue to see "Moving forward, future possibilities of AI acting as a tool of inspiration, as an aid in a person's creative process or to overcome fixedness is promising."

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

It was exhilarating to finally grasp how profound it will be to have MoMA’s collection trade its chiseled-in-stone fixedness for permanent, in-progress fluidity.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020

Rather than reinforce the fixedness of gay-straight and male-female binaries, Araki’s tongue-in-cheek films have long praised those who refuse to be boxed in.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2019

The agitated doctor drew her towards the window, and proceeded to examine her eyes; the pupils were not to be distinguished from seeing ones, save by their lifeless melancholy fixedness.

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul