fixed attitude
Example Sentences
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His training, temperament and fixed attitude are all such as to make it impossible for him to be useful to his government as envoy to Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
He did not take his own cross too personally or too literally as the world's permanent or fixed attitude toward goodness or every degree of goodness.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley
He was ghostlike and frightful in that fixed attitude, and Bog wished that he would move.
From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell
The Aide-de-camp had copied from his master the nasal intonation, the absence of gesture, the fixed attitude on the edge of the seat with the bowed arm against the side.
From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)
