fixity

Example Sentences

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Her transfixing allure seems to draw every oddity and incident, but as the years pass, there’s also a fixity to her resolve.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

For me, the emphasis on fixity as a measure of authenticity, as implied by the Foundation’s “core tenets,” deflects attention from the emotional probing that makes Gonzalez-Torres’s art so moving.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

As the book progresses, she describes the pleasure of being in flux but also, increasingly, in fixity, routine, and things that are dependable.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2020

Here, mobility is in danger of becoming an abstraction, and, because Tokarczuk repeatedly returns to her themes, the ironic effect is of a certain fixity.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

The blind spot is called functional fixity because people get fixated on ah object’s function and forget its physical makeup.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker