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

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

“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

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 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