fixity

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Jeremy Strong, who, as Kendall Roy on “Succession,” turned ethics-free tooldom into poetry, finds his Cohn in verbal tics and locked-jaw fixity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024

In seven essays in that book, she criticized postmodernism — “Pomoism,” as she called it — for its “denial of the fixity of the past.”

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2019

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

“Perhaps falling in love in middle age is in part the desire to experience fixity again,” the narrator muses.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 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