fixity

She could only feel the dark, heavy fixity of his animal desire.

She stared at it with a fixity that surprised her.

On the contrary, there was a fixity about her which frightened him.

Each person raked those trees with a fixity of expression.

It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity.

We, too, are moved by such fixity of purpose.

Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge?

Our lives were running out, and our eyes had a strange fixity.

But, for all that, his eyes kept following the Doctor about the room with a thoughtful fixity of gaze.

Stability nor fixity can be directly affected by the subject at hand.

No tears, only a fixity of expression as she looked down from the bed at her companion for so many years.

In this way, the stability and fixity of a bound book is a blessing.

Tarzan was still gazing with fixity at the two faces.

Slowly, with held breath, and eyes aching in their stretched fixity, I turn.

The fixity of her mood was broken by the action of walking.

Yet there was a coldness to it and a fixity in her gaze as she spoke.

Staring back at him with the cold and emotionless fixity of a snake.

And the gaze had lost something, a cold fixity which had carried him through everything.

His presumed greater maturity and fixity of position are taken as positive character traits.

And yet his eyes were not insane, merely steady with an unnatural fixity of purpose.

By itself, fixity checking does not ensure the preservation of a digital file.

He kept on thinking the same things all the time, and the fixity of his thoughts made his head ache.

The gunman stared up at him with curious fixity.

For all the fixity of its ways, the real-estate oligarchy is only a few generations old.

It was all unfolding with the fixity of some ancient and unchanging ceremony.