1
His great power lay in his demand for fixedness of opinion.
2
Billy examined the tautness of the tent ropes and the fixedness of stakes.
3
That wore a fixedness of amiability which accentuated the whole like a high light.
4
Gregory looked up, and marked the fixedness of her gaze.
5
When these two talked without apparent heat it was with unalterable fixedness of purpose.
6
They stared with the unwinking fixedness of those whose gaze is caught in hypnotic trance.
7
When he laughed he gave the impression of the fixedness of merriment of a mask.
8
It recalled, too, the thought of man's evanescence and the apparent fixedness of his institutions.
9
Conventional standards, which seemed to have the fixedness of the stars are blown to the winds.
10
There was fixedness of purpose in her face.
11
If his eye looked calm, it was the tranquillity of apathetic ignorance, the fixedness of idiotcy.
12
He looked at this attentively, and under the fixedness of his glance it became less indistinct.
13
The solemnity of the last words, the fixedness of the tragic look, were not to be resisted.
14
It upsets the certainty and fixedness of the order of things, and so forth, and so forth.
15
His poignant pessimism, however, only seemed to throw into relief the stubborn fixedness of his dominant purpose.
16
An intensity and fixedness of features were conspicuous, that led me to suspect the subversion of his reason.