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Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes.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
Reasons why a fixed attitude toward ideas is undesirable.
From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)
From his comfortable chair he watched him standing in his fixed attitude, producing his Spanish phrases, one after the other, with grave regularity, whenever there was a pause.
From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
A fixed attitude toward ideas is, therefore, far from an unmixed virtue; it seriously limits the usefulness of knowledge; it greatly checks progress; and it strongly opposes peace and happiness.
From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)
