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Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes.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
With photographs, each of which represents the regiment in a fixed attitude, it reconstitutes the mobility of the regiment marching.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
Reasons why a fixed attitude toward ideas is undesirable.
From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by Frank M. (Frank Morton) McMurry
As marble vestals of the ancient world, buried and lost, they lie, chiselled into a fixed attitude of prayer through the silent centuries.
From Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame by James Lane Allen
