| 单词 | fixity |
| 例句 | Pairs used to maintain the fidelity and fixity of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The blind spot is called functional fixity because people get fixated on ah object’s function and forget its physical makeup. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Genes were a mirage invented by the bourgeoisie to emphasize the fixity of individual differences, whereas, in fact, nothing about features, identities, choices, or destinies was indelible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z 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. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It is the fixity of its text that makes it an immutable mobile, and it is immutable mobiles that are needed if facts are to endure into the post-print age. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge, in combination with chunking and functional fixity, helps make sense of the paradox that classic style is difficult to master. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Sainthood embodies tremendous fixity of will, in contrast to the promiscuous desires of the Venusberg, which bring in their wake the allure of the profane, linguistically as well as musically. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z “I think what we all want from art is a sense of fixity, a sense of opposing the chaos of daily living,” he said. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z His new show breaks ground by expanding on the dualities always central to his work: liquid and solid, sound and silence, presence and absence, improvisation and fixity. Christian Marclay Sees in Sound in a Show at White Cube in London 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The Oedipus myth, about the irrevocable fixity of fate, is an odd vein to mine for a novel about the mutability of everything. Daisy Johnson’s Uncanny Début Novel Rewrites Oedipus 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z As in so much of Shepard’s work, fixity is a mirage that vanishes when approached. Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z In seven essays in that book, she criticized postmodernism — “Pomoism,” as she called it — for its “denial of the fixity of the past.” Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z A form of Japanese dance theater, it developed after World War II. It resists fixity — and it has long been associated with distress. How to Fall Under a Butoh-like Spell 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Horvitz kept his attention on the band with microscopic focus, quick-cutting between contrasts, putting something free or rippling against a fixity. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz and Royal Room Collective at the Stone 2013-05-22T21:46:01Z This odyssey into adulthood and early middle age lacks the organic fixity of his childhood narrative. ‘The Education of Kevin Powell’: An activist and ex-MTV star looks back 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z It gives the novels their tight clench of waywardness and fixity. The Drowned World by JG Ballard 2012-07-13T07:00:07Z For me, the emphasis on fixity as a measure of authenticity, as implied by the Foundation’s “core tenets,” deflects attention from the emotional probing that makes Gonzalez-Torres’s art so moving. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Master of Mutability 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Though it takes place in the world of espionage, its surreal narrative drift resists the fixity of pulp beats and resolutions. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z 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. Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Equally, she is critical of “mastery” and the fixities of poetic craft. Natalie Diaz: 'It is an important and dangerous time for language' 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z As the book progresses, she describes the pleasure of being in flux but also, increasingly, in fixity, routine, and things that are dependable. From first love to unfollowing – culture that sums up romance in 2020 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z 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. The Pope and Catholic Radicals Come Together Against Nuclear Weapons 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Watching the show, she realised, she tells me, that to be on reality TV, you must have a ‘fixity’. Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous' 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Baker describes how seeing four deer in a neighbor’s bean field becomes, for father and daughter alike, an “absolute attention, a fixity.” Poetry That Bears Witness to a Changing Natural World 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Here, mobility is in danger of becoming an abstraction, and, because Tokarczuk repeatedly returns to her themes, the ironic effect is of a certain fixity. “Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z “Perhaps falling in love in middle age is in part the desire to experience fixity again,” the narrator muses. 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z May’s simultaneous fixity and willingness to rely on her advisers has led people to wonder whether she is brittle, or wary of her own instincts. Theresa May’s Impossible Choice 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z 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. On "Darwinism" 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z On the fixity of our position in time? Letters of Recommendation: ‘Twin Peaks,’ Screaming Karaoke and More 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Browne displayed a fixity of purpose and a degree of self-assurance that sometimes put people off. Walter S. Browne, charismatic chess champion, dies at 66 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z 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. 'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z There's a moral fixity in the welfare debate – feckless unemployed bad, noble pensioners good – that debases the principle of social security. A future without growth need not be dismal if we use Plan C 2012-06-27T19:30:01Z Hence, perhaps, conjoined to the theological ideas then current, the reason why the larger question of the fixity of species entered not into his purview. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z It has been suggested that they should introduce fixity of tenure on their estates, in one or other of its various forms. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Gaining strength and fixity, however, from these successes, this notion of substance subsequently stood in the way of scientific advancement. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Accordingly inducements, by way of fixity of tenure and compensation for improvements, were offered to pastoral tenants to surrender their existing leases and bring their holdings under the Act. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Upon these sub-strata this fixity of caste rests with crushing weight. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Both Protestant and unbeliever must therefore labor under much vagueness and uncertainty of judgment, inasmuch as they can have no fixity of principle. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The fact that moral choice must take different directions under different circumstances is sometimes construed into an argument against any fixity of moral commandments, an argument for a narrow expediency. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The fact of this remarkable long-continued attachment of the poison to objects, indicating by this fixity that it is a solid, is consonant with the theory that it is an organism. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Any fixity of idea may be considered as a monomania. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The system of Copernicus presupposes the fixity of the sun, as a "conditio sine qua non." The Sun changes its position in space therefore it cannot be regarded as being "in a condition of rest" 2012-03-08T03:00:10.827Z The moral conscience rests in certainty and fixity on the religious. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z She did not look at Bayard, did not move; she might have been without the sense of sight or hearing; she did not even breathe perceptibly; just sat there with a fixity that frightened him. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z A striking example of this fixity of the poison occurred in the practice of the late Kearney Rogers, formerly a prominent and much esteemed surgeon of New York City. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Men, as I have shown further on, cannot now be chased without reason from their homes, fixity of tenure being the chief good accomplished by the Crofter's Act of 1886. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The event of ten years ago has resulted not in party instability, but in fresh fixity of tenure to the political conglomerate that the constituencies have as yet shown no wish to dismiss. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The contract, as an agreement which has a voluntary origin and deals with a casual commodity, involves at the same time the giving to this “accidental” will a positive fixity. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z His eyes had already lost even as much life as might have been discerned in the slow freezing of a puddle, and had now assumed the glassy fixity and perfect roundness of two bottle-stoppers. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Literature gives a voice to that within us which would otherwise remain dumb, and fixity to that which would otherwise be evanescent. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z "Wallahi!" muttered the barber, who had gazed at him with the same fixity. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z His voice quavered down to silence, but his eyes still kept their fires, his attitude its fixity. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z Here is the “negative unsettling” of the narrow fixities, of the determinate conditions or relationships into which the preceding processes of labour and acquisition have tended to stereotype life. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z In the turbulent confusion of his mind, the Squire still clung to certain fixities. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z Farmers in Wales are now demanding a permanent reduction of twenty-five per cent. in rents, fixity of tenure and compensation for making improvements on their holdings. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Hence the fixity and longevity of many emblematic methods of performing acts affecting status or property rights. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z In Susie's eyes her Aunt's age was as the age of mountains, and also her fixity. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Crime is thus the “dialectic” which shakes the fixity of practical arrangements, and calls for something in which the idea of a higher unity, a permanent substance of life, shall find realisation. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Her large eyes, which gave off green and yellow glints, stared with disturbing fixity and seemed at the same time to have a blank expression, as though covered by an invisible spider web. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z And so the youth was thinking, to judge from the impassioned ecstasy of his eyes and the statue-like fixity of his attitude. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z As I have remarked above, the Commedia dell' Arte combined fixity of outline in the masks with illimitable plasticity in the details communicated by the genius and personality of their sustainers. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z We know that the fixity of composition of chemical compounds had been established before this time, largely by the labours of Black and Lavoisier. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z Here was he as firm as a rock, and showed a fixity of purpose that nothing could shake or alter. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z She was looking with eager fixity at the man. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z It is not frozen into fixity; but as each particle is impelled in all directions by the same amounts of force, it retains a fixed position. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z There is no fixity in either direction in the tenure of a ministry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z "Yes," said Harry anxiously, awed by the fixity of her eyes upon him. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Mohammed’s sincerity and fixity of purpose is a fact we cannot get away from. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z He looked into her face with great fixity. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The point, then, which in the first instance must be firmly fastened in our minds is this:—so long as there is free intercrossing, heredity cancels variability, and makes in favour of fixity of type. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection 2011-10-18T02:00:18.363Z But these make up in unswerving fixity of purpose for any diminution of their forces due to municipal considerations. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z So he had argued in his heart; so he answered her now, kindly, tenderly, with much emotion, but with more fixity of purpose and finality of decision. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z When the fixity of her decision was established she had a number of offers to accompany her, but declined them all, bidding the others go their way. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Concentration does not mean fixity, nor a cramped arrest or paralysis of the flow of suggestion. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Once she had been a twittering maiden, active all day as a water-mill; now she had learned to be silent, and her eyes had a fixity of expression. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z I instinctively felt myself in a luminous sphere; for my eyes, attracted to the Queen with painful fixity, saw her alone. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z He turned slowly round, and looked upon Nan with the unseeing fixity of the blind. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z There was an awful fixity in the gaze she turned upon him and he wavered under it. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Ah Sing made no reply and his impassive face did not alter its expressionless fixity. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z She lowered her voice here, and regarded him with a tender yet impressive fixity. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z A careful study of the principles of morality causes them to penetrate deeper into the soul and gives them there greater fixity. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Our eyes pained with the intense fixity of gazing, yet no animate thing appeared. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z It is that which enables one generation to hand on to another the discoveries made, the inventions produced, the thoughts achieved, and so gives a degree of fixity to the progress attained. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z The fixity of his gaze suggested a desire to bore a way to the heart of the secrets the strange model contained. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Her companion watched her with fixity for a moment. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z In this case, it would even be better to hand all property over to the State, that it might establish a certain order and fixity in the repartition of it. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z He relates all this but little to the wishes of other people, to the inherent fixities of things, to his own future states, to whether one wish is compatible 54 with another. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z They are never corrected or transformed; in their mechanical fixity they cease to live; and the mind which cherishes and preserves them loses its natural tendency to doubt. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z If such places were sown with the seeds of grass, it would give fixity to the soil, and add much to the beauty of the landscape. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z All the conjugations about to be discussed lack, however, that fixity of form which grammatically satisfies the mind. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z How still fixity stays, even where motion most reigns? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The handsome young soldier had folded his arms, and his eyes dwelt on Roshinara’s animated face with a sad fixity that bespoke at once his love and his despair. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z But the fixity of will has been underrated. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z The fixity of his father's attitude had driven Gordon to say more than he had intended, but he meant it, every word, nor did he regard his parent with any less affection for it. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Oftenest that quick lift of heavy eyelids, and the flash of bright fixity, would come without any following of speech. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z He is quite right in maintaining that universals are in particular things, for particular things could not be without universals; universals give to them their fixity, even for a day, and their unity. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The children of this world, at all events, were not intended for any such condition of fixity. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z On the other hand, there was the dog; a characteristic fixity of purpose in its owner; and a natural curiosity to know more of the entertainment that could empty every home. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z A peculiar fixity came into Taylor's green eyes. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The fixity left the muscles of her face. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z Once, when Miss Maitland spoke of keeping some of her books and the house-money in the safe, he saw his stepdaughter's eyelids flutter and droop over the bird-bright fixity of her glance. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z At last, thank God, the sacred well in sight, She kneels some minutes more, to tell her beads And gather breath and strength and that repose And fixity of purpose needed for The coming test. Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en 2011-02-28T03:00:33.577Z “Come!” she said again, glaring at him with a curious fixity. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z The dogmas of the Church were cast in adamant, and secured the immense advantage of definiteness and fixity. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z There was no character in touch with the Executive during the first years of the Revolution comparable to hers for fixity of purpose and definition of view. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z By the fixity of his gaze as I turned the corner I guessed that he was watching the two men. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z What was thought of the goats' milk I gathered symptomatically from a certain fixity of expression that accompanied the first sip of the tea, and from observing that comparatively few ventured on second cups. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z The act was meant to give tenants fixity of tenure, fair rent, and free sale. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Their fixity and their mechanical and unvarying movements, when once observed, could not fail to strike a mortal blow at the faith of which they were the object. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z This is the doctrine of the fixity and immutability of species, almost universal in the civilised world up to the end of the last century. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z An authoritative democracy like this seems to present all the dangers of an absolute monarchy, without possessing, as a compensation, the advantages of fixity. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z I will show farther on, however, that if there is fixity in the form of the government, there cannot be any consistency in the politics of the country. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z Telic character or purposiveness and fixity are like oil and water. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker It requires a certain fixity of attention to keep the weeders or the cultivator teeth close to the plants without also injuring them. The Idyl of Twin Fires For the dripping Peckover was still holding tenaciously on to the side of the punt, with a fixity of purpose which no mere considerations of stage effect seemed likely to dispose him to relax. A Poached Peerage Personal courage, wonderful endurance of privation, fixity of purpose, and a contempt of death are qualities common to almost every race, tribe and clan that compose the Military qualities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Its very tenderness was not more unmistakable, to me, than the fixity of a resolution which my whole heart and soul applauded. Witching Hill The lifeless fixity of her face suddenly comes undone, her features contract. Woman His rigid fixity of face and figure froze the watching students into answering tenseness. The Key to Yesterday The girl was counting the iridescent threads of the spider's web, but her eyes caught the fixity with which his hand had unconsciously clenched itself. The Tempering And they have revealed that the difference is not one of antecedent fixity of existence, but one of mode of treatment and of the consequences thereon attendant. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude He was still flushed, and his eyes all but stood out from their sockets in their grim fixity. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Nurse," said the King, his eye dilated by the terrible fixity of death, "something must have happened while I slept. Marguerite de Valois They were packed in serried rows; the children almost all cried persistently, except here and there a baby, who looked with frightful fixity at the glazed roof. A Bed of Roses His eyes centred their blazing scrutiny on it with a fixity which the ruder mountaineer did not miss. The Tempering Her eyes dwelt on him with a certain fixity, and in them he seemed to read further significances. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece There is no fixity, as is so often the fact in Europe, from the sense of despair. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them She did not knit her brows, nor labor visibly at the mental oar; yet a certain reposeful gravity and a fixity of the thoughtful eye showed she was applying all the powers of her mind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It is this pathetic clinging to fixity, to a something immutable, that vitiates his proposals. American World Policies Sigurd, erect on rigid legs, was staring with an uncanny fixity of gaze on vacancy, while Ellen, on her knees, wringing her hands above her head, was alternately abjuring him and Heaven. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road It is rendered in our version "firmament," a word conveying the notion of support and fixity, and in the Septuagint "Stereoma," a word having a similar meaning. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science It was strong, efficient and popular.—It had its fixity in the life tenure of the chiefs and the customs of proceeding. An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem But now his face was curiously splotched red and white and his eyes blazed seaward in fixity. Where the Pavement Ends Further, there was indication that their owner would not be lacking in tact or fixity of purpose; two qualities usually found hand in hand. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War This fascinating power has been most generally attributed to serpents, and is supposed to reside in a peculiar glare and fixity of the eyes, which appear to mesmerise the victims. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series But it was not this which held the incredulous fixity of their gaze. The Sphere of Sleep Quite another use of the Psalm was as a proof of the fixity of the earth, as against the Copernican theory that the earth, not the sun, moved. The Bible Story I had no desire to linger between that dame and the purpose, whatever it might be, that dwelt in the fixity of her frown. Where the Pavement Ends For the veldt was alive with warriors, swarming down from the ridge, charging forward in silence, swift in deadly fixity of purpose. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley The eyes and brow resembled the Moorish race—the same character of fixity in expression. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier She gave a start, drew a little back and looked at him with a certain startled fixity as if he had stopped all else in her. Fidelity A Novel These fish lay watching, stretched from one bank to the other; their number, my loneliness, their immensity, my fixity conspired to frighten me unspeakably. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday There was a stern fixity of purpose declared in the way these last words were spoken, which at the same time warned Hankes from asking any explanation of them. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day She removed her hand and sat back without lessening the fixity of her regard. The Destroying Angel Neither of these forms of marriage carried with it the idea of fixity and of family responsibility. Women of England His upper teeth lacked fixity, so to speak; and as they fell with every word, he had the appearance of gnashing them continually at the invisible author. An American Girl Abroad In the code of military etiquette, silence and fixity are forms of deference. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 The two clambered out of the belly of the standing spider—Qanya staring before her with sleepwalking fixity, Dworn nervously scanning sky and horizon for hostile machines. World of the Drone The Middle is associated with special sanctity, fixity and supremacy of power and rule, extending in rotation over the Above and Below and Four Quarters. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Then the monster of the dream broke out of its fixity and with a shriek of hurricanes aimed a terrific blow at the prow of the Wastrel. The Portal of Dreams Then his thoughts centered again on Howard Gage; who, before leaving that afternoon, had unpleasantly impressed Charles Abbott by his inelasticity, the fixity of his gaze upon the ground. The Bright Shawl But it is forgotten, that a law which expresses merely what men do, has not the universality or fixity of a law of matter, but is liable to variation from the action of moral causes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Farmers who have grown to manhood with full faith in the fixity of their condition, in the impossibility of its improvement, are not to be turned right-about-face by a programme. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 The fixity of his gaze is so intense as to suggest the idea that he never again means to remove it until death claims him for his own. Portia or By Passions Rocked And Mrs. Halsing pursed her lips with a truly orthodox fixity. The Story of Old Fort Loudon The element of fixity is found in them. Logic, Inductive and Deductive There seems but one answer—that it is the lack of fixity of tenure. The Hills and the Vale The philosopher Apollonius attends among the guests, perceives her to be “human serpentry,” and, gazing on her with ruthless fixity, he compels her and all her apparatus of enchantment to vanish. Life of John Keats The tree trying to encompass and overcome the law of its own being—fixity—by sending its seeds sailing, whirling, aviating the seas of the air, with wind for pilot to far distant clime. Through Our Unknown Southwest Only very recently has it come to be understood that primitive societies vastly antedating the historical period had attained relatively high stages of development and fixity, socially and politically. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" But the brutal British fixity of purpose displayed by this truculent chauffeur left him gasping with indignation. Cynthia's Chauffeur As the cottages belong to the landowners, fixity or certainty of tenure is like taking their rights from them. The Hills and the Vale The eyes, however, seemed to him to have a singular look of fixity and lifelesness. Weird Tales. Vol. I "Mrs. Luttrell of —— But what have you to do with her?" said Brian, with a sudden fixity of feature and harshness of voice that alarmed Elizabeth. Under False Pretences A Novel It said much for the fixity and consistency of his ideas of colonial administration that, unlike Russell, Buller, and others, he had not been misled by the Metcalfe incident. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 The people were to profit by fixity of prices and escape from further taxation; and the government, by the revenue accruing in the process of administration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Most people are familiar by this time with the demand of the tenant farmers for some exalted kind of compensation, which in effect is equivalent to tenant-right, i.e., to fixity of tenure. The Hills and the Vale On the same track, Drey, in 1819, defended the theory of development as the vital prerogative of Rome over the fixity of other churches. The History of Freedom Even if we take the Jewish race, which seems to show extraordinary fixity and stability of type, there is not one dominant Jewish type; there are fully fifty different Jewish types. German Problems and Personalities When he writes, the smile which sometimes seeks to overpower the grim fixity of his features, is frozen before it can emerge to the surface. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Her face would then lose its unnatural fixity of expression, and she would draw a deep breath, as though eased of a heavy burden. Jena or Sedan? I continued to follow his evolutions with a childish fixity: they made me giddy and vacant, and I spoke as in a dream. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) He rejected a mechanical fixity, and held that whatever has been made by process of growth shall continue to grow and suffer modification. The History of Freedom In contrast with the mobility of an unwritten constitution is the fixity of a constitution written out, like that of the United States or Switzerland, in one authoritative code. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Children accept the improbable with artless faith; nothing strikes them as impossible; only, they must not be deceived, for there is no impairing the fixity of a settled idea in their brains. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 It is not over a man, whose one characteristic is grim fixity of purpose, that the hearts of women are “incensed and kindled with a special care,” as it were over their natural children. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The eyes of both were wide, and in their fixity the lights of heaven were glassed. Aurora the Magnificent The belief in the fixity and influence of national type, confirmed by his authorities, Ganganelli and Möhler, continued to determine his judgments. The History of Freedom Murgu�a’s head raised, and his eyes fixed themselves on the judge, and in their intense fixity glittered a quick, keen lust. The Missourian The early Greeks and Romans were bound to a certain extent by the authority of tradition on one side and the fixity of purpose on the other. History of Human Society Freedom of sale is necessarily annexed to fixity of tenure. The Landleaguers You will probably have a greater fixity of tenure and a clearer ownership in improvements than you have to-day. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism The type reappears, perpetuated by the fixity of mind, though the form varies under the force of circumstances. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Her eyes were opened to their widest extent, but they had the peculiar blank fixity of the eyes of the blind. Wild Oranges "I guess stress—fixity of mind or purpose—could develop it in anyone," he said. Occasion for Disaster Every man is to get what doesn't belong to him, and if a man has anything he's to be turned out; that is fixity of tenure. The Landleaguers But, for all that, his eyes kept following the Doctor about the room with a thoughtful fixity of gaze. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) His eyes were wide open, and, but for a curious fixity of gaze, I should not have suspected that he was blind. The Thread of Gold We must consider how large a proportion of the reverence which the great institutes of human life exact from us is due to the fixity of the things themselves. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer Where the Bishop looked and spoke and moved with the deliberate fixity of the settling years, Stanton acted with a quick nervousness that shook just a perceptible little. The Shepherd of the North In order to give fixity to the color the dyer steeps the wool in a mordant of alum and water. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference Worship lends to these powers, though they were known before, a fixity and reality they did not formerly possess. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The professor rose from one of the benches on the rostrum and came forward––a tall, black-bearded man, deathly pale, whose protruding, bluish eyes seemed almost stupid in their fixity. The Crimson Tide A Novel The change thus indicated is especially significant as having occurred at a time of life when the natural tendency is towards fixity of opinion. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Then he stopped suddenly and causelessly while applying the towel to the small of his back, and stood for several moments in a state of fixity, staring at a particular spot on the wall-paper. A Great Man A Frolic We shall not have another, if the stubborn resistance and fixity of ideas in the bureaus can prevent it. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy For owing to reduction of rent, fixity of tenure, free sale, and the tenant-right, the tenant is actually more than two-thirds owner. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The very process of adaptation, therefore, tends toward fixity and to destroy adaptability. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Had the great bulk of the people been free, and the empire prosperous, this fixity of impost would have been the greatest of all blessings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 In later life he came to show some evidence of the belief in development, but his great work is all built on the idea of the entire fixity of species. The Meaning of Evolution We suffer them by the day Till we lose all measure of pace, And fixity in our joys, And acquire a listening air. Mountain Interval How can progressive instruction be carried on where there is no fixity of habitation? Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland She was puzzled, hurt by some hopeless fixity in him, that terrified her with a cold feeling of despair. The Rainbow Graceful commonly suggests motion or the possibility of motion; beautiful may apply to absolute fixity; a landscape or a blue sky is beautiful, but neither is graceful. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The world at large scarcely admitted a possible doubt of the fixity of species. The Meaning of Evolution Katherine leaned across the desk and her eyes gazed with an even greater fixity into his. Counsel for the Defense They have all fixity of tenure, and so enjoy the privilege of criticising, as adversely as they like, the degeneracy of modern educational developments. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland She could only feel the dark, heavy fixity of his animal desire. The Rainbow They might become agricultural laborers, and so attain a fixity of tenure as serfs. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters Wyatt leaned from the saddle and held on to the side of the machine with one hand, his alcohol-varnished eyes boring into Sandy's with the fixity of drink-madness. Rimrock Trail Viewed in every age, the existing tribes have exhibited such a fixity and peculiarity of character, as to have rendered them at once a paradox and a bye-word. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 She saw only the upturned face and its deathlike fixity. The Dust Flower But her hand was still fastened with his, and his face still had the same unchanging fixity of outward calm. The Rainbow It is a wonder that the Copernican system ever gained the day in the face of this apparent fixity of the stars. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language When Biddell came to the place where the wolf was standing, the latter made way reluctantly, still backing, and staring with that sinister fixity which Kane found so impressive. Kings in Exile The Greeks represented Justice as a goddess blindfolded, with scales in one hand and a sword in the other, to indicate the impartiality and the fixity of her decrees. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas This fixity of race characteristics has enabled the several national varieties of men to go forth from their nurseries, carrying the qualities bred in their earlier conditions through centuries of life in other climes. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The anomaly of seeming nebular fixity has nevertheless been removed; and the problem of nebular motion has begun to be solved through the demonstrated possibility of its spectroscopic investigation. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition "You have your mother's sweet disposition, and also I think my fixity of purpose." A Romantic Young Lady When Horner resumed his climbing, the great bird turned his head and gazed down upon him with an ironic fixity which betrayed neither dread nor wonder. Kings in Exile These are composed of persons in whom austere and domineering character proceeds from a dogmatic fixity of mind, and expresses itself in the same inconstant application shown by the former class. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study Especially are there variations in the degree of inward coherence and therewith of the fixity or duration of the stock of intellect. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The fixity, then, of many systems observed by Mr. Denning seems to demand the admission that their members travel so fast as to throw the earth's movement completely out of the account. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Positiveness of expression suggests the superior's fixity of purpose, with consequent inspiration to subordinates to prosecute their tasks with determination. Sound Military Decision She had not long left the room when the slumberer's eyes opened gradually and stared with the fixity of semi-consciousness at a stem of blossoming jessamine in the wall-paper. The Invader A Novel He had a fixity of purpose; not too much purpose, but so fixed.—Yes, he was English! Tatterdemalion Beth's great eyes settled upon him with sudden fixity. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius And suddenly he had a strange fancy: it seemed to him that she was looking straight before her, not at him, not into his face, but over his head, with an intent, almost uncanny fixity. The Brothers Karamazov "I prefer the company of the veldt," was all he said, without relaxing the fixity of his face; "ladies are more in Stanley's line." The Rhodesian He was leaning rather forward, with his hands upon the table supporting him, and gazing into the glass which stood before him with a horrible fixity. Mugby Junction Having assumed fixity as a code, the Mishna in turn became what the Bible had been for centuries—a text, the basis of all legal development and scientific discussion. Jewish Literature and Other Essays In surveying the respective modes of existence of vegetables and of animals, we perceive the fixity of position of the one, and the free locomotive power of the other. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes There was a strange fixity in his gaze at times. The Brothers Karamazov I have lived my life," returned the old man, with sombre fixity of resolve, "and these things do not interest me. The Doomsman The vigour of his powerful frame is apparent with every movement, and the strength and fixity of will expressed in his keen dark face there is no mistaking. The Sign of the Spider She had never seen such fixity of purpose in any man’s expression. Colorado Jim The stars are, of course, characterised by their fixity, but this object was not fixed; night after night the place it occupied changed with respect to the stars. The Story of the Heavens At this particular time one of the great demands by Irishmen was for what they then called “fixity of tenure.” The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon His eyes were not large, but they rested on the object that attracted his attention with a peculiar fixity. The Explorer And yet, for very little children, there is unquestionably something lost by the formality and fixity of a written story. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds She has practiced it often in the glass, and knows to a mathematical nicety the exact height to which the lid must be raised, and the exact fixity of the gaze. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) It thus appears that the permanence of the sidereal heavens, and the fixity of the constellations in their relative positions, are only ephemeral. The Story of the Heavens The fixity of the birth-date and the variableness of the death-date are full of significance, when we remember that the one is a fixed and the other a variable solar position. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries If we had attained anything like steadiness of thought or fixity of character, if we knew ourselves, we should know also our inalienable satisfactions. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory We must say, All things in the world are fatally predetermined, and hang together in the adamantine fixity of a system of natural law. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy All the fixity of purpose he possessed, and it was not a little, was concentrated upon keeping his father's—his—works from aiding the projects of a brutal and unscrupulous enemy. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Thus, indeed, even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Pearls of Thought He had closed his eyes as if he were weary; yet she discerned in the lines of his face a hard fixity which troubled her, alarmed her. Children of the Desert This equable tension, this balance and elasticity in the very absence of fixity, give the vague but powerful feeling that we wish to describe. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory I cannot stop to take up the old proofs from causation, from statistics, from the certainty with which we can foretell one another's conduct, from the fixity of character, and all the rest. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Your men have done well indeed, but it is to you and your fixity of purpose our win is mainly due. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Rather, the fixity of her gaze and the intensity of her mental concentration threw into high relief the hardness of her personality. No Clue A Mystery Story In delving into Lawson's career—a most unwelcome task—the writer has detected a continuity of purpose, a fixity of design, a uniformity of method pervading his every public act. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated The objectification of musical forms is due to their fixity and complexity: like words, they are thought of as existing in a social medium, and can be beautiful without being spatial. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Her complexion was clear but pale, her eyes were almond-shaped with long lashes and had a singular fixity of expression. The Son of Monte-Cristo The recollection brought back again to Dale the words spoken by the master at the close of the races: "Fixity of purpose ... there is almost nothing that fixity of purpose will not accomplish." Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns In short, although both mobility and fixity exist in the vegetable as in the animal world, the balance is clearly in favor of fixity in the one case and of mobility in the other. Creative Evolution Medusa-like for one second her face hung, white-illumined, set into terrible fixity, above the great flame, the next instant all was blackness to their dazzled eyes. The Light of Scarthey There was, he felt, little that suggested fixity of tenure and continuity in the West; the times changed too rapidly, people came and went, alert, feverishly bustling, optimistic. The Long Portage Yet the need appeared so relentless, uttered in the set fixity of his impassive voice, that she could not gainsay it. The House with the Green Shutters His eyes were deep-set and rimmed by heavy lashes and brows, and there was a glow in them as he looked at her—a compelling fixity that held her. 'Drag' Harlan But fixity and mobility, again, are only superficial signs of tendencies that are still deeper. Creative Evolution He had found a new plan, and moreover a calm fixity of resolution, such as among the modern youth of France is very much more rarely met with than courage under arms. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 The blind woman stood motionless, with closely compressed lips and eyes that stared in their sightless fixity. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush So great had been the fixity of Gourlay's wrath, so tense had he been in one direction, as he moved slowly on his prey, that he could not leap to prevent him. The House with the Green Shutters There was the same gravity, marching hand in hand with tenacity of purpose, fixity of ideas; the same grim scorn of the tonic wine of jest and laughter. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters In crustaceans such as the rhizocephala, which must formerly have shown a more differentiated structure, fixity and parasitism accompany the degeneration and almost complete disappearance of the nervous system. Creative Evolution But to my mind there is no fixity, no absolute truth in any form of religious dogma. Notes on Islam He has confessed and affirmed, once for all, his standing and fixity in the Lord, and in Him alone. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians He spoke staringly, with the same fixity in his voice and gaze. The House with the Green Shutters Her apparent fixity of purpose was incongruous for that time of the evening. Stubble But the vegetable, condemned to fixity and insensibility, exhibits the same tendency only because it received at the outset the same impulsion. Creative Evolution We should give heed to the fixity of temperamental characteristics in order to determine their adaptability to conditions that prevail at certain ages. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies And the same lines were to be followed with an undeviating fixity of artistic purpose and with unfailing verve and spirit to the last. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 They depend on the degree of fixity of the substance. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 He could feel rather than see the fixity of her gaze. Stubble Hence the world of plants with its fixity and insensibility, hence the animals with their mobility and consciousness. Creative Evolution Medina Sidonia even now counseled abandonment; but religious faith, the fatalistic pride of Spain, and Philip's dogged fixity of purpose drove them on. A History of Sea Power Content with life, fixity of purpose, development of individuality, all are brought forth in every woman who plans and pieces a quilt. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them Rothenstein's lithograph in particular, with the sort of morbid languor that pervades it, the mournful fixity of the gaze, the aristocratic slenderness of the hands and the features, surprises and startles the spectator. Renée Mauperin He sinkingly realized the truth of this statement as he felt the fixity of her gaze. Stubble The grey had come early to her thick hair, a certain fixity to the quiet courage of her eyes. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy And again: 'Nothing is more difficult and requires more caution than philosophical deduction, nor is there anything more adverse to its accuracy than fixity of opinion.' Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The whole house, indeed, seemed stuffy with motionless air, as if not even sound vibrations had disturbed the deathlike fixity of that interior. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle Her eyes, which were wide open and looking upward, seemed to be filled with the infinite, and her expression gradually took the fixity of eternal things. Renée Mauperin It does not mean to begin wrong, but because it has no fixity of direction it becomes, as we say, dissipated. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion Nor in the walk of life to which the Buonapartes belonged was the fixity of names as rigid then as it later became. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) In striking contrast with this intellectual expansiveness was his fixity in religion, but this is a subject which cannot be discussed here. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 He had seen enough of Bruce to guess something of his fixity of purpose when aroused and Dill’s telegram confirmed it. The Man from the Bitter Roots Asiatic fixity of the mores is extreme, but the element of persistency in the mores is always characteristic of them. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Mrs. Lambert gazed up at him with such fixity of surprise that the rush of his forthright appeal weakened towards its end. The Tyranny of the Dark This answer Mr. Jellicoe delivered without moving a muscle, regarding me with the fixity of a spectacled figurehead. The Eye of Osiris It is good for children to feel a certain fixity and stability about home and school and friends. Mushrooms on the Moor A man in the dumb-solemn stage of drunkenness stood regarding his empty glass with owlish fixity. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Thus it happened that the fixity of his gaze was intensified. Tales of Fantasy and Fact The sick woman's eyes shone prompt approval, for all the fixity of their regard. The Heart of Unaga Jasper had only seen her for a moment, but during that brief glance he read determination and fixity of purpose in her eyes and mouth. How It All Came Round I want you to make yourself at home, and before long—” The faded stare of the Great de Barral silenced Anthony by its inexpressive fixity. Chance A Tale in Two Parts It is probable that his enemies gave him credit for greater fixity of purpose in regard to his peace policy than he really possessed. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II What the Church wants is fixity, security and obedience. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Imagine the torture of patience, the fixity of will required to keep it eternally on. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Nor does the only other passage which M. Geoffroy brings forward to prove that Buffon was originally a believer in the fixity of species bear him out much better. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Not only would they render possible a common Knowledge of Reality—the existence of such ideas would necessarily also give permanence, fixity, law, and order to our intellectual activity. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge The very fixity of its sphere, the imprisonment for life in a single spot of earth, is the symbol of a certain degradation. Natural Law in the Spiritual World But the child’s head fell back heavily, and his arms hung motionlessly beside him, and with a shriek, Eric suddenly caught the look of dead fixity in his blue open eyes. Eric, or Little by Little At first a sceptic, he began experimenting and proved that fixity of gaze had in some way such an influence on the nervous system of the subject that he went off into a sleep. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing I'll study before the glass whenever I've an odd moment, and I believe I shall do the fixity of purpose stare after another week of hard practice. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World For in spite of its insignificant irregularity of feature there was alert resolve in its expression; a curious light-hearted fixity of purpose that was arresting. The Ffolliots of Redmarley However, they were too far gone to make a recovery, and yet they had enough fixity of purpose not to manufacture any of you Omans there. Masters of Space She was finding the fixity of his gaze disconcerting and leaned above the table, arranging the dishes which contained his food. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Those who think that "browsing" is an education should reflect that it is like any other wandering employment, fatal to fixity of purpose. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Emphasis upon customs as already established tends to promote fixity and repetition, and to discourage change regardless of the benefits to be derived from specific changes. Human Traits and their Social Significance But the fear in his eyes was more understandable than that other expression, that queer fixity of gaze like one in a trance, or like a person in an ecstasy. Valley of Dreams And why do you thus praise the Lord so imperfectly and with so little fixity of attention? On Prayer and The Contemplative Life In Shakespeare's day there was also, of course, some movement toward fixity of ideas, and there were great men who strove to convert others to their ideas and to dictate belief and conduct. The Facts About Shakespeare "Thank you," she says, faintly, not knowing what else to say, and feeling thoroughly embarrassed by the fixity and duration of his regard. Molly Bawn I responded to his words and to the fixity of his gaze by silence. The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) The nearer a generation was to these individuals originated through primitive generation, the greater was undoubtedly its flexibility and changeableness; the farther, the greater the fixity of type. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality “Greeting, daughter,” returned Marufa without lessening the fixity of his gaze. Witch-Doctors But this restless, stern-visaged Stair Garland, with his curious Viking fixity of gaze, what was his position towards Patsy? Patsy His manner is marked by extreme courtesy and, in view of the fixity of his opinions, a surprising lack of abruptness or dogmatism. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Aguirre passed a sleepless night, seated at the edge of his bed, gazing with stupid fixity at the designs upon the wall-paper. Luna Benamor He derives them, in their first beginnings, from the fixity, transmission and increase of the social impulses and instincts. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Jouffroy settled himself to listen; his shaggy eyebrows lowering over his eyes, not in severity but in fixity of attention. The Daughters of Danaus At first he was unseen, for the stranger looked straight out into the street with singular fixity, and the death-like pallor of his face added a weirdness to the immobility of his gaze. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People Her eyes stared up at the ceiling with an intense and horrible fixity. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn In certain ecstatic cases, fixity of thought produces analogous effects. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution This determination, or fixity of purpose, has a great moral bearing upon our success, for it leads others to feel confidence in us, and this is everything. Pushing to the Front The comparative fixity of the portion of bowel struck is a matter of great importance in the production of this form of injury. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre The extraordinary manner in which Mr Hilliard was always appearing at Knock Castle during the Christmas holidays; his interest in everything Esmeralda did and said; the fixity of his gaze upon the beautiful face. Pixie O'Shaughnessy Considered that old age in great measure disqualified him by its rigid fixity of habits from judging of the works of young poets—I must say that he was here even over liberal in self-depreciation. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 To return to the goose, however, it may be remarked that it is at least as probable that its fixity of character is the cause of the neglect, as the reverse. On the Genesis of Species We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow. Fantasia of the Unconscious The comparatively good prognosis in these parts is what would be expected, on account of their greater fixity, and lesser tendency to be covered by the small intestine. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre We will first bring together, as Flourens and also Butler have done, his scattered fragmentary views, or rather suggestions, on the fixity of species, and then present his thoughts on the mutability of species. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work The girl's look was directed towards her mother with the fixity of gaze of a sleeper awakened in the horror of a bad dream. The Hand in the Dark This is a wonderful contrast to the fixity of position of vertebrate limbs generally. On the Genesis of Species Chained Lines show lack of force or fixity of purpose. Palmistry for All State of tension of the muscles, fasciæ, and ligaments at the moment of impact, and fixity or otherwise of the part of the body struck. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre Her face was calm, her eyes looked into space with a certain fixity, but she was not cataleptic, for she was humming a rustic tune; her right hand wrote quickly, and, as it were, surreptitiously. Real Ghost Stories His eyes did not alter from their look of fixity as the man emerged. Son of Power She had always had a sort of enthusiasm for the truth in the abstract—not so much as a moral endowment, but a supreme fixity, the one immutable value, superior to vicissitudes. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Once he flung himself back and stared at his guest with a fixity of gaze painful to see. Quisanté Cuvier framed an argument for the fixity of species on the fact that the birds and beasts of the catacombs were identical in every respect with the animals of the same kind that live now. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Where all the workers were paid by their tenancy of land, where, in other words, fixity and stability of possession were the very basis of social life, the fluidity of labour was impossible. Mediaeval Socialism The fixity of gaze must, according to him, exhaust the nerve centers of the eyes and their surroundings. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Fairhurst points out the difficulties in which the evolutionist becomes involved through the fixity of species. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique The rotation of the earth, the fixity of the sun, and also its movement around an axis, were discovered. Some Answered Questions This means not fixity in guiding society, but fluidity! The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 2) The face was grotesque in its weazened fixity; the little legs were twisted, and the thin body lay crooked among its blankets. Joyce of the North Woods In all the editions up to the tenth, he looked upon geological facts and geological phenomena as proving the fixity of species and their special creation in time. What is Darwinism? And," I am asked on all sides, "is fixity of tenure to signify the fixture of little tenants in their present holdings, on which they cannot possibly lead a reasonably human existence? Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Her eye held him in a heavy vacuity, watched with a trancelike fixity his careful stitches and the armlong stretch of the drawn thread. The Emigrant Trail Then she rose from her knees and stood looking off through the window with a fixity that argued a deep dedication of purpose. A Pagan of the Hills And so the fixity of his smiling greeting which completely masked his feelings. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The dawn had come up long ago, and in its austere light Magdalen's face showed very sharp and white in a certain tender fixity and compassion. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron The creature exhibited a strange fixity of outline, as if it had been a chance configuration of rocks. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story "Well?" her eyes slanted sideways in a fixity of attention. The Emigrant Trail He had reflected more deeply than any man then living on the problem of Church and State; and he did not believe in the sacred fixity of divisions founded on schemes of Church government only. Lectures on Modern history But it was encouraging and friendly, and lacked all fixity. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The man bowed and looked with fixity at Michael, who stared back at him, dazed and confused. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron She herself seemed to have no more fixity or responsibility in it than the heroine of a romance. A Chance Acquaintance Her laughter diminished to a smile that lay on her lips, looking stiff and uncomfortable below the fixity of her eyes. The Emigrant Trail While the stubborn fixity of German Lutherans and Swiss Calvinists lifted them out of the stream of actual history, French Protestantism, like English, was full of growth and originality. Lectures on Modern history We could not live in society unless there were regularity, order, fixity. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners She saw again the duke's dying face, and the tender fixity of his eyes. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron At the close of the lesson it tests his grasp of the facts and gives these greater clearness and fixity in his mind. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education All the eyes were trained on him, some with a wide, expectant fixity, others bright with combative fire. The Emigrant Trail In particular, the freedom of his human will is inconsistent with the fixity of the divine. The Arian Controversy The fixity of the other's stare at last chilled and quelled his chatter to an embarrassed silence. The Lighted Match "It is spring," he said, looking full at her with tender fixity, and for a moment she thought his mind was wandering. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron For three days they jumped every time a customer entered the store, and Abe wore a genial smile of such fixity that his face fairly ached. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Their eyes met in a lingering fixity, each with a question that did not find utterance. The Hidden Places Much of my reading became such as had a bearing on forthcoming debates and that gave clearness and fixity to my ideas. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Leaning back against the wall, I stared at his personage with a dreadful fixity, for I counted him the figment of a disarranged mind. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor It was his very fixity and loftiness of purpose, his English stubbornness and doggedness of resolution that enabled him to surmount so many obstacles of style and metre, of subject and thought. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton In our waking state, when our powers of volition are intact, the external impression is characterized by its fixity or its obdurate resistance to our wishes. Illusions A Psychological Study But there was arising a quiver in the fingers he held which belied the emotionless fixity of her face. The Hidden Places Considering this question of convenience in connection with the necessary condition of fixity already referred to, the prime meridian should pass through some well-established national observatory. International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings For a moment longer he looked at Jimmy with severe fixity, then suddenly went away. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle The author applies this basis of fixity in nature generally to the rules of man's nature, and avow himself a Quietist. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art A row of heads, posed on chins all along the rail, stared after us with unanimous fixity. Romance But what was more appalling than the fury of a wild beast accomplishing in all innocence of heart a natural function, was the fixity of savage purpose man alone is capable of displaying. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale It is stationary," said Mr. Hume, "and ashore, as you may see from its fixity. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa The glory of life is that it does not have fixity, that it is ever crescent. The Vitalized School If the Church feels subscription and fixity of creed a burden, it has only to turn its members to account in their capacity of citizens of the State to relieve itself. Practical Essays They looked at us with commiseration; one of them sweetly, the other with his owlish fixity. Romance With the glance the calm fixity of her features sublimed itself to an expression of refinement and warmth: it was like garish noon rising to the dignity of sunset in a couple of seconds. The Return of the Native Yet, as compared with what remains over, the characters that we are able to distinguish as racial must show fixity. Anthropology The fixity of a large part of our nature—nay, of all but the whole of it—is a moral and spiritual necessity. The Relations Between Religion and Science Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 As commonly applied, the elastic theory is based on the absolute fixity of the abutments, and the arch ring is made more slender because of this fixity. Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 The element of fixity and regular repetition in rites cannot be too strongly emphasized. Ancient Art and Ritual The will-o'-the-wisp torches had stopped dancing forward now, but still they remained there, quite inexplicable in their fixity. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation He tells us that in the pre-Darwinian days he was accustomed to defend the fixity of species in the company of evolutionists and in the presence of the orthodox to attack the same doctrine. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work The task given to the will is not only to govern the actions but to discipline the nature; but discipline is impossible where there is no fixity in the thing to be disciplined. The Relations Between Religion and Science Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 Idly drifting on the slow glassy flood, we seemed only an incidental portion of this dream in which the deepest passions of man were bodied forth in eternal fixity. The River and I Vermont stood looking after him, his gaze almost still in its fixity; then he turned and passed up the stairs. Adrien Leroy His dark eyes flashed with the fixity of his purpose. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot On the other hand, Huxley's friendship with Darwin and with Lyell began to make him less certain about the fixity of species. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work He dismissed the subject for more pressing matters, and he never noticed the awful whiteness of Merryon's face or the deadly fixity of his look. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories In the mellow glow he resumed his seat, and his glance came to rest upon his daughter with a curious fixity, as if he subtly divined something that troubled her. Burned Bridges Things as they are have a fixity which demands moral dynamite to unsettle. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Her whole bearing betokened so fine a fearlessness, such noble fixity of purpose that, looking on her, Mary Antony felt her own fears vanishing. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century There were sceptical defenders of fixity and religious upholders of evolution. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work The fixity of the group is markedly greater than that of the simple interval. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The anxiety lifted from her face at that, and she gazed at the hills with such an exultant fixity that he was able to stare at her at his ease. The Judge "Quite so," said Miss Falconer, dropping her lorgnette and giving the canvas the fixity of her unobstructed gaze. The Palace of Darkened Windows His high forehead and prominent brow indicate intellect, and his large compressed mouth and massive underjaw, terminating in a square, prominent chin, show great fixity of purpose, and resolution of will. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest It is the struggle against this fixity that gives to the sculpture of the Renaissance its aspect of unrest, of disdain of the present, of endless unsatisfied search. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 The fixity of the larger rhythmical quantities is greater than that of the smaller, whether the relation be between the elementary interval and the unit group, or between the synthetic unit and its higher composite. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. She wore a low dress—too much so, in her mother's opinion—and two or three times, under the fixity of that opera-glass, she had raised the shoulder-straps of her dress. Parisian Points of View There are many men who pride themselves upon their fixity of purpose, and a lot of similar fixidities and steadiness; but I don't. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America There was in their expression a fixity indicative of his character, a purpose settled and unalterable. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest The fixity continues, and is only deepened into contortion and grimace. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 In three cases out of five the unit has a greater fixity than its immediate compound , with an average ratio of 0.969:1.072. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In spite of the fixity of his purpose and the energy of his action the disorder around him was measureless and insurmountable. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 From this time forth, Prince Henry prosecuted his explorations with a fixity of purpose which could not but ensure success. The Life of Columbus Great grasp of intellect, fixity of purpose, strong will, high aims, and incorruptible moral purity, make a great man. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest A saint has not undergone any supernatural transformation but has merely reached a level from which he can fall: meditation is simply fixity of attention, not a mystic trance. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Also, the group presents here, as in the preceding forms, a greater fixity than does the individual interval. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The doctrine of evolution, so far as the present physical cosmos is concerned, postulates the fixity of the rules of operation of the causes of motion in the material universe. The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century It insures their eternal fixity, and this property surely endows them with a very genuine and sublime reality. The Life of Reason Upright and sincere in his pursuits, methodical, with fixity of purpose, he was never in a hurry about anything, and was always content, in his business, with moderate profits as the reward of his labor. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest The murderers stood alone, staring with that fixity which only a wax assassin can compass; but for the most part the figures were arranged in groups with dramatic intent. A Wanderer in Holland Without this fixity of character, this "continuity of the germ-plasm", "man" would cease to be, for the descendants of changeable cells would be of infinite variety, having fixity of neither form nor character. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment Rachel's eyes had a certain calm fixity in them that comes not of natural temperament, but of past conflict, long waged, and barely but irrevocably won. Red Pottage You seem to possess a real fixity of purpose. The Altar Steps The man to whom this is possible is one of no positive points in his character, no strength of will, no fixity of purpose, and of but little intellect. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Geographical Science alone, stolid in its insolent fixity, has not moved: the location of Thebes and Memphis is what it was in the days of Cheops and Rameses. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 They consequently had no respect for the rights of property, in the vindication of which their homes had been demolished and their families sacrificed, because they were not able to purchase fixity of tenure. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times It is an entire misconception of the situation: Strength of will and fixity of purpose are among the last powers which the human mind develops. The Nervous Child The change of mind in Neoptolemus, the stubborn fixity of will in Philoctetes, contrasted with the confiding tenderness of his nature, form the elements of a dramatic movement at once extremely simple and wonderfully sustained. The Seven Plays in English Verse Foote, as an orator, was greatly the superior of all of these; but there was in him want of judgment, want of fixed principles and fixity of purpose. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest In the House, as well as in his private life and business circles, he was much esteemed for the honest fixity of purpose which characterised all his life. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically She did this the more conscientiously, since she had often reproached herself with a fixity of principle that might with some show of reason be called too inflexible. The Street Called Straight These rights were the famous three F's—fixity of tenure, free sale, and fair rent—of the Magna Charta of the Irish peasant. Ireland In The New Century For some time he stood there, back determinedly toward her, staring with great fixity at nothing. Queed The French character seems to want that fixity of purpose, that self-denial, and steady perseverance, which is so necessary to those who would colonize and subdue a new and inhospitable country. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Another feature of the organisation of Hinduism, hitherto insufficiently noticed, has a still closer connection with this freedom of thought and fixity of practice. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments He stooped and kissed the unconscious face without relaxing a muscle in the settled fixity of his own face. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Though his gaze preserved its fixity, his lips broke into a queer, sardonic smile. The Magician The young man, arms hanging inoffensively by his side, stared at him with a curious fixity. Queed She was very pale, and there was a fixity of sadness about her. Mount Music It succeeded only in making arbitrary evictions more costly for the landlord, it gave the tenant no fixity of tenure since the compensation for disturbance was inadequate. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement The Colonel was regarding her with frightening fixity. V. V.'s Eyes When the lady raised her veil, Eliphas Levi saw that she was of mature age; and beneath her grey eyebrows were bright black eyes of preternatural fixity.' The Magician After resting awhile one should repeat the exercise afresh, until the time comes when one can concentrate one's gaze in this way for at least four or five minutes of perfect fixity. Poise: How to Attain It The relative fixity of a psychic group is also due to the difficulty—well-nigh impossibility—of bringing new psychic influences to bear on all members of the group simultaneously. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Their play at the moment, feeling insecure as to the fixity of governmental policy, was to approve heartily the neutrality now existing, and to make no criticisms. Great Britain and the American Civil War With an energy which few had hitherto been disposed to give him credit for possessing, the enemy continued to engross himself in establishing, as it were, a fixity of tenure. The Siege of Kimberley There was a terrible stiffness—almost a fixity—about him. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories The eyes rolled no longer, but gazed with a great fixity at something that seemed to be infinitely far away. The Lamp in the Desert The relative fixity of a psychic group is due to the fact that in full-grown adults, who form the majority of every group, function has produced structure. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Her very pallor, in fixity of idea, served her purpose. The Last Shot You can get much or little, according to the greatness or the smallness, the fixity or the transiency, of your desires. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) His face was utterly blank of expression, unless a certain grim fixity could be described as such. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories There was no fixity in the soft flush of those delicately rounded cheeks. The Lamp in the Desert Scott's tired eyes looked at her with a sudden fixity. Greatheart Franz stirred under the unconscious fixity of her gaze and changed his position, lying on his back. The White Morning Now the whole of the rationalistic doubt about the Palestinian legends, from its rise in the early eighteenth century out of the last movements of the Renascence, was founded on the fixity of facts. The New Jerusalem He was streaming with water at every step, but he moved as if his drenched clothing were in no way a hindrance—steadily, strongly, with stubborn fixity of purpose. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories How can we deny that this "persistence" of these unicellular forms constitutes a very strong argument in favor of the "fixity" of these forms? Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation It may well be that his fixity of attention—Druse turned his head and looked through the deeps of air downward, as from the surface to the bottom of a translucent sea. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Eli stared at the child with the fixity of a statue. Tales of the Five Towns He found the surface of Mars one of extreme complexity, a multitude of bright spots in places, but with a general fixity of character which led him to believe that the appearances were not atmospheric. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars 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 Antonyms: continuation, stability, conservatism, permanence, inertia, monotony, perpetuation, continuance, fixity, invariability, uniformity. change, v. alter, transmute, shift, modulate, reverse, reform, vary, modify, convert, transform, transpose, transfer, exchange, substitute, commute. Putnam's Word Book Then he tried to disengage his head, the fixity of which was the more annoying from his ignorance of what held it. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians But as Gaston stood by he was struck by the strange fixity of the youth's eyes, by the rigidity of his muscles, and by the coherence and significance of his words. In the Days of Chivalry We that with vagrant soul his fixity Have slighted; faithless, done his deep faith wrong; Left him for poorer loves, and bowed the knee To misbegotten strange new gods of song. The Poems of William Watson They showed what a wise and kind landlord could do by caring for tenants, by giving them habitable dwellings, recreation ground and fixity of tenure, and requiring in return a reasonable and moderate rent. The Life of John Ruskin Judging by the fixity of the old lady's features, Rachel decided that she was not yet quite pardoned for the slight she had put upon the memory of her employer. The Price of Love At the front are precision, formality, fixity, and silence. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians I want to fix my attention on the fixity of the bed. Light It was a few years later that the Nestorian controversy had the effect of giving fixity to that conception of the "Mother of God" which is held by Roman Catholics. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Fire had dried the tears in Mrs. Meyerburg's eyes and her face had resumed its fixity of lines. Every Soul Hath Its Song Their rich, sonorous, splendidly-moulded language invests their visions with a noble fixity, an impressive force. Landmarks in French Literature The majority of people that were dealt with were mature, with more or less fixity of character and habits. Analyzing Character Such compounds often have a fixity that simulates the unity of single words. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Once his glance wandered to Ravenshaw’s neck, then returned with growing fixity to his face, seen at closer range than he had ever beheld it. The Moon Rock It is not merely a denial of the fixity of species, an assertion that there are no natural kinds so inseparable from one another that each must be the result of a distinct creative act. Recent Tendencies in Ethics The cowboy stared with such fixity that the match burned down to his fingertips and singed them before he had lighted his cigarette. The Night Horseman I am given to understand, however," added Mr. Mortimer, "that the apparatus requires a considerable reservoir, and a reservoir of any size is only compatible with fixity of tenure. True Tilda The Frenchman's eyes widened, but remained unblinking with a sort of glazed fixity. The Flying Legion Stability is the sine qua non of the things one proposes to examine, and the memory must possess the singular power of communicating fixity to fugitive things, permanence to instantaneousness, and actuality to the past. Delsarte System of Oratory Now, I ask, Did this process take place when Darwinism supplanted the traditional theory of the fixity of species? Recent Tendencies in Ethics There was no fixity of tenure of the land. The Glories of Ireland But the child's head fell back heavily, and his arms hung motionless beside him, and with a shriek, Eric suddenly caught the look of dead fixity in his blue open eyes. Eric He took her face in both his hands, drew it up for a moment, gazed at it with a fixity of passion that seemed to burn. The Flying Legion Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters There is nothing in the doctrine of the fixity of species—if you hold it—which will in the least degree tend to diminish vitality. Recent Tendencies in Ethics The letter is here reproduced as an interesting exhibit of human nature and it fixity. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment His instinct as an artist takes him away from the Paris of '93, where the confusion, uproar, human frenzy, leave him no background of nature, with nature's fixity, sternness, indifference, sublimity. Studies in Literature The ruling tradition in philosophy has always been the platonic and aristotelian belief that fixity is a nobler and worthier thing than change. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy They have a peculiar clerical appearance, something of the sternness and fixity of purpose which seems to express itself in the jaws and eyes of some learned divines. A Tramp's Sketches They saw that a judicial hierarchy would be vain without fixity of laws; and they demanded a summarization of customs and a consolidation of ordinances in a collection placed within reach of all. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 In spite of the fixity of his purpose and the energy of his action, the disorder around him was measureless and insurmountable. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 The public of the Aquarium, seeing the flat heads of the swimming animals near the glass, would scream and wave their arms as though they could be seen by the fishy eyes of stupid fixity. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Hence we may see the greater fixity of the earlier associations, and might measurably determine the decrease of fixity as the date of their first formation becomes less remote. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Still he said nothing, and the crowd became fascinated by the fixity of gaze of the two. The Nine-Tenths When the Unionists, with their greater fixity of purpose, replace the Liberals at the helm, we must be prepared for a vigorous assertion of power by the island Empire. Germany and the Next War Here is perpetual fixity of form, perpetual flux of constituent,—the ideas of Nature never changing, the material realization of them never ceasing to change. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator I sigh for fixity and assurance in matters aesthetical. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 |
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