fixity

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

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

But the drive for fixity is thwarted by the form of this novel, which is determinedly fluid, as if in search of a style appropriate for the fluidity of the middle part of life.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018

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

The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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