fixity

the fixity of his stare.

a stiff collar); with reference to persons it often suggests a lack of ease, cold formality, or fixity, as of purpose:

When transformation of parts of speech takes place, we should distinguish synchronism from diachronism, grammar from rhetoric anti fixity from temporariness.

The fixity of the schedule made it difficult to make any changes.

He believed in the fixity of human nature.

The fixity of the rules allowed no room for negotiation.

She questioned the fixity of traditional gender roles.

The fixity of the price was non-negotiable.

The fixity of his beliefs made it hard for him to accept new ideas.

The fixity of the law provided a sense of stability in society.

They debated the fixity of historical events.

The fixity of the company's policies created a sense of predictability.

He questioned the fixity of scientific theories.

Current views may appear firm, but only because we exaggerate their fixity.

Her extraordinary fixity, her conspicuous loneliness, her heedlessness of night, betokened among other things an utter absence of fear.

Though his gaze preserved its fixity, his lips broke into a queer, sardonic smile.

Each person raked those trees with a fixity of expression.

It is clear that theultimate pattern contains its own fixity.

In front of Sandy Jim stood Chad's Bess, who had shown an unwonted quietude and fixity of attention ever since Dinah had begun to speak.

Keeping her gaze on his in a passion of unrelenting fixity, she could detect in him no confusion, not the least quiver of a sensitive nerve.

But the eyes have always the same profound fixity, the same look of loyalty, which hides nothing and from which nothing is hidden.

He was looking up at the dusty windows with a sort of ecstatic fixity of expression, like a hunky immigrant catching his first sight of the Statue of Liberty.

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.