How To Use Fixity In A Sentence
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Fixity of social custom , for the same reason , tends to prevent what are called unhappy marriages.
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He has great fixity of purpose.
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Tokugawa period, the idea of fickleness would not have occurred to us; on the contrary, the dominant impression would have been that of the permanence and fixity of her life and customs.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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Fair rent and fixity of tenure are not new concepts, but they seem to be concepts that the Government seem fearful to tackle.
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But by Johns's account, the goal of reliability, of fixity, of faithfulness, and of protected authorship remained constant.
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Of course, this definition assumed the "fixity" of species; but with the wide prevalence of the views of Darwin and his followers the term "species" has fallen into disrepute, and is now regarded by many as only an artificial rank in classification corresponding to no objective reality in the natural world.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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The owner of the ground, however, was not in favour of the Tennis Club expending a considerable sum of money on their courts while they did not enjoy any fixity of tenure.
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Darwin challenged the fixity of species
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The girl nearest to the car, noticing the fixity of his stare, responded with a discreet V sign.
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But it is a mistake to think that racial or sex discrimination is morally objectionable because of the biological fixity or unchosen nature of race and sex.
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The Werner Plan placed emphasis on the fixity of exchange rates and complete freedom of capital movements.
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Trilling's, which revolutionized our understanding of this recalcitrant work, brings the history of nineteenth-century ideas about duty, sincerity and much else to bear on the novel's uncongenial insistence on "fixity" of identity and conduct.
Powell's Books: Overview
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The difference in the mean variation of the first and second intervals respectively rises to an individual maximum of 3.000: 1.000, and averages for all subjects 2.290: 1.000; the fixity, that is to say, of the inter-group interval in this form of tapping is more than twice as great as that of the intra-group interval.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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She displayed great fixity of purpose.
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Partly it is an effect of changed economic circumstances, in the West at least, in which the roles of breadwinners and homekeepers have unravelled out of long-preserved ideological fixity.
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Their final point is the lack of fixity in one's social status.
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One should always remember that the words ‘immobilization’ and ‘holding’ do not describe a the actual state of affairs - they convey the idea of finality and fixity that do not exist in action.
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The latter would start with the irrevocable fixity of the exchange rates of those currencies participating in it, to be followed by the rapid introduction of the single currency, which would thus replace national currencies.
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Taxation preference is a kind of supplement to the unity and relative fixity of the taxation.
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This metaphor implies the dichotomy within the artist of his simultaneity of fixity and of a nomad.
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I watched him till his eyes began to look vague and a kind of fixity settled on his features, -- he was perfectly unconscious that I held him at my pleasure, -- and presently, satisfied with my experiment, I relaxed the spell and withdrew my hand.
The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
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By replacing usual, permanent materials with unusual ephemeral elements, the curators hope to ‘neutralize initial fixity of ideas’.
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The thesis expounds that as the fingerprint has the characteristics of innateness, uniqueness, fixity, we can make use of the three characters to put the biometrics into user identification .
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I think the important thing is that being gay doesn't hurt anyone, that gay people view it as core to their sense of self and that they don't feel any less fixity in their sexuality than straight people do.
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The youth of the present generation is wandering aimlessly without any fixity of purpose.
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There was something of that attitude, I thought, behind her unfocused mannerisms: a fixity, a precise definition of her own independence.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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Hildegarde had seen her eat, too, with just this sort of blank fixity.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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It becomes as necessary, therefore, in the performance of surgical operations upon the subclavian artery, to fix the clavicle by depressing it, as in Plate 8, as it is to give fixity to the lower maxilla and larynx, in the position of Plate 7, when the carotid is the subject of operation.
Surgical Anatomy
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The agitation that he led influenced Gladstone to introduce the 1881 Irish Land Act, guaranteeing fair rents, fixity of tenure, and freedom to sell (the Three Fs) to tenants.
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In our survey of preliterary Latin we had occasion to notice that one of its characteristics was a lack of fixity in the use of forms or constructions.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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We connect the idea of fixity with the mountains, but they seem to me to be continually pirouetting with each other, -- exchanging or entirely losing their identity.
Gala-days
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They asserted that while printed materials have a certain fixity and finitude, texts published via the Internet have a much more fluid character.
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If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
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He knows the forms of yellow, weight, ductility, fixity, fluidity, solution, and so on, and the methods for superinducing them.
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He postulates that one reason people with inquiring minds feel there is no place for them in churches is ‘the apparent fixity of our symbolical systems.’
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Without a sense of community, the village loses all fixity of purpose, never mind its unique identity.
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As a performance, a speech act somewhere between recitation and song, his delivery eschews the apparent fixity and finality of a poem printed in a book.
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Human artifices such as fixity and certainty are a big bore to the immortals.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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Having always considered intimacy to be rather messy, I was a bit surprised to see that its definition relies on containment and fixity.
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He hated his father with a fixity of purpose which, otherwise directed, might have built empires.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space.
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Rather, it is the stability and fixity of patterns of family practice which demand an explanation.
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The point is not that the local vanishes, or that it stands merely as an antipode of diversity to the homogenizing force of the global, but rather that popular music manifests how ‘fixity’ and ‘fluidity’ continually interact.
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That is the strawman Darwin erected - Creationism = fixity of species, and as with Haeckel's embryos has managed to stick around regardless of the facts.
Blast From the Past
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She found herself staring at the door with the fixity of a trance.
COMPULSION
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Whatever may be said of the wind as a cheap agent of locomotion, this much may be safely predicated of steam vessels for the mails; that their time of departure and arrival has an absolute fixity which is attainable by no other means, and which is highly conducive to the best interests of all those for whom commerce is conducted.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
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Second, stability does not imply fixity or constancy.
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Second, stability does not imply fixity or constancy.
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It may be that, on the whole, the idea of fixity prevailed more among thinkers with a religious bias; but for the most part the theories were debated independently of the tenets of any faith, Christian or other.
Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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This consistency in relations between input and signal allows a looser definition that does not depend on the fixity or otherwise of channels.
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She believed in the fixity of the class system.
