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Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes.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
Up to this moment Garey had stood in a fixed attitude, silent and rigid as a statue.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
He was ghostlike and frightful in that fixed attitude, and Bog wished that he would move.
From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell
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 Allen, James Lane
