fixity

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Jeremy Strong, who, as Kendall Roy on “Succession,” turned ethics-free tooldom into poetry, finds his Cohn in verbal tics and locked-jaw fixity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024

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

The curse of knowledge, in combination with chunking and functional fixity, helps make sense of the paradox that classic style is difficult to master.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker