Her apparent fixity of purpose was incongruous for that time of the evening.
He could feel rather than see the fixity of her gaze.
He sinkingly realized the truth of this statement as he felt the fixity of her gaze.
We must say, All things in the world are fatally predetermined, and hang together in the adamantine fixity of a system of natural law.
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.
Cuvier has become known as the greatest champion of the fixity of species, but it is not often recognised that his attitude to this problem is at least as scientific as that of the evolutionists of his own and later times.
The controversy was not, as we are sometimes told, a controversy between a believer in evolution and an upholder of the fixity of species, although it raised a question upon which evolution theory was to throw some light.
He must have had a reason, beyond the reason he gave, for not only insisting on clothing the judiciary with these unusual political and legislative attributes, but for giving the judiciary an unprecedented fixity of tenure.
It is vain to pretend, continued he, in support of fixity of tenure, that the greater the pressure on the judge is likely to be, the more need there is to make him secure.
It ascribed fixity and finality to that "creature" in which an apostle taught us to recognise the birth-struggles of an unexhausted progress.
Now as these rare species do really vary much less than the common species, and in many cases hardly vary at all, it was very natural that a belief in the fixity of species should prevail.
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 world at large scarcely admitted a possible doubt of the fixity of species.
The fixity of the ends will, in any such case, be imperfect; and when one side only of an intermediate main girder is loaded, it can have but a moderate effect in reducing flange stress at the middle of the loaded floor beam.
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.
Most biologists, if asked to explain the comparative fixity of species, the slowness of evolution, would, I think, refer to the fact that variations appear to take place indiscriminately in all directions.
The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street became ferocious.
Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled attention.
The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole.
Linnaeus, the great father of modern scientific biology, had frankly and perhaps unthinkingly accepted this current and almost universal dogma of the fixity and immutability of species.
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.
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.
If we had attained anything like steadiness of thought or fixity of character, if we knew ourselves, we should know also our inalienable satisfactions.
In short, although both mobility and fixity exist in the vegetable as in the animal world, the balance is clearly in favor offixity in the one case and of mobility in the other.
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.
Though the plant is distinguished from the animal by fixity and insensibility, movement and consciousness sleep in it as recollections which may waken.
Hence the world of plants with its fixity and insensibility, hence the animals with their mobility and consciousness.
But fixity and mobility, again, are only superficial signs of tendencies that are still deeper.
Here, again, it would be a mistake to claim that fixity and mobility are the two characters which enable us to decide, by simple inspection alone, whether we have before us a plant or an animal.
But the vegetable, condemned to fixity and insensibility, exhibits the same tendency only because it received at the outset the same impulsion.
Who would plough or sow if he disbelieved in the fixity of the future?
These facts shew the great fixity of colours commonly deemed tender.
The dun portion appears to be more soluble, but its fixity on stuffs may possibly be increased by the affinity which it has for the red portion.
Worship lends to these powers, though they were known before, a fixity and reality they did not formerly possess.
The metamorphoses of certain animals, and especially of insects, so often cited in support of this idea, prove, by the fixity with which they repeat themselves in innumerable species, exactly the contrary.
As evidence of the fixity of generic types and the existence of a higher and free causal power, I have made use of a method which appears to me new as a process of reasoning.
The eyes rolled no longer, but gazed with a great fixity at something that seemed to be infinitely far away.
There was no fixity in the soft flush of those delicately rounded cheeks.
It has been suggested that they should introduce fixity of tenure on their estates, in one or other of its various forms.
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.
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fixity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
