fixity

I think we’re shifting to models in which we’re maybe less interested in the idea of nature as a space of fixity, or something that can be set apart from human culture and humanity.

We do not want to sink to such a fanatical fixity, but we do not want to drown in ahistorical complacency, either.

But there was arising a quiver in the fingers he held which belied the emotionless fixity of her face.

Their eyes met in a lingering fixity, each with a question that did not find utterance.

She gave a start, drew a little back and looked at him with a certain startled fixity as if he had stopped all else in her.

As the cottages belong to the landowners, fixity or certainty of tenure is like taking their rights from them.

And at last the wheel has rest, is still, Shrunk to an adamant core: Fulfilling its will in fixity.