She was capable of emotional fixity that makes the poems written just before her suicide in 1963 nearly unbearable: pictures of rage and despair drawn virtually in words of one .
As they grow up, they go on looking at people and things as they did when they were children, with a certain ulterior fixity of attention.
And how all thought of fixity in anything had disappeared as a ridiculous illusion intended, maybe, by something to fool man into the belief that his world here, his physical .
Donald Johanson in Martha's Vineyard Gazette Dr. Johanson described Darwin's realization as: "The best example I can think of is that bumper sticker: 'The mind is like a parachute: it only works when it's open.'" "Darwin left England believing in the fixity of species and returned from...
Norman Manley in Jamaica Observer She fought for the right, time and time again, and opposed the moral fixity of the Victorian era, the unforgiving harshness and small-mindedness of rural Australia and its metropolitan hypocrisy and the smug, unyielding power of the church's male... Mike Rann http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rann&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFfeHPphFfA3c2OtjdSltIjq-Alug Sydney Morning Herald http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/mackillop-an-inspiration-to-all-aussies-20091220-l74p.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE7lrH0_S66Bmu5Gl0XkHjlPgUkNw Dec 19, 2009
37846 49069 fixity We lack what Norman Manley called fixity of purpose".