fixities
- plural of fixity.
Example Sentences
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Equally, she is critical of “mastery” and the fixities of poetic craft.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
When Gabriel García Márquez was born, in 1927, in the sleepy little town of Aracataca, not far from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, there were certain established fixities in the world of letters.
From Time ● Apr. 17, 2014
We are glad to be driven from false, automatic fixities, anyhow.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
