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Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes.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
Silent and fixed attitude, rigidity rather than restlessness.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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
Pupillary reflexes normal; although limbs would remain in a fixed attitude when so placed, he did not evidence the typical flexibilitas cerea.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
