fixity

Example Sentences

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Though it takes place in the world of espionage, its surreal narrative drift resists the fixity of pulp beats and resolutions.

From New York Times

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

Equally, she is critical of “mastery” and the fixities of poetic craft.

From The Guardian

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

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