fixity
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The earth was stamped with cloud shadows that gave an impression both of movement and fixity — a rich, dark earth with an inner seam that showed red and metallic in places.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
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
Yet, as L. A. Kauffman, an activist and a historian of protest movements, told me, the Kings Bay break-in, which was approximately the hundredth Plowshares action since 1980, reflects a remarkable fixity of purpose.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019
In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018
Pairs used to maintain the fidelity and fixity of information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Equally, she is critical of “mastery” and the fixities of poetic craft.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
When Gabriel García Márquez was born, in 1927, in the sleepy little town of Aracataca, not far from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, there were certain established fixities in the world of letters.
From Time ● Apr. 17, 2014
He lapsed to the commoner persuasion of the great fixities and recurrencies of the human routine.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The concept of mechanism suits the phenomena which occur within the zone of wreckage, on this shore of fixities and corpses.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
