(1) the fixity of his stare(2) Having always considered intimacy to be rather messy, I was a bit surprised to see that its definition relies on containment and fixity .(3) Their final point is the lack of fixity in one's social status.(4) One should always remember that the words u2018immobilizationu2019 and u2018holdingu2019 do not describe a the actual state of affairs - they convey the idea of finality and fixity that do not exist in action.(5) Rather, it is the stability and fixity of patterns of family practice which demand an explanation.(6) Fair rent and fixity of tenure are not new concepts, but they seem to be concepts that the Government seem fearful to tackle.(7) Without a sense of community, the village loses all fixity of purpose, never mind its unique identity.(8) He postulates that one reason people with inquiring minds feel there is no place for them in churches is u2018the apparent fixity of our symbolical systems.u2019(9) By replacing usual, permanent materials with unusual ephemeral elements, the curators hope to u2018neutralize initial fixity of ideasu2019.(10) The youth of the present generation is wandering aimlessly without any fixity of purpose.(11) The owner of the ground, however, was not in favour of the Tennis Club expending a considerable sum of money on their courts while they did not enjoy any fixity of tenure.(12) The latter would start with the irrevocable fixity of the exchange rates of those currencies participating in it, to be followed by the rapid introduction of the single currency, which would thus replace national currencies.(13) I think the important thing is that being gay doesn't hurt anyone, that gay people view it as core to their sense of self and that they don't feel any less fixity in their sexuality than straight people do.(14) This metaphor implies the dichotomy within the artist of his simultaneity of fixity and of a nomad.(15) Partly it is an effect of changed economic circumstances, in the West at least, in which the roles of breadwinners and homekeepers have unravelled out of long-preserved ideological fixity .(16) But by Johns's account, the goal of reliability, of fixity , of faithfulness, and of protected authorship remained constant.
