Sentence examples for Fixed thing from inspiring English sources

It is not a fixed thing that is waiting to be discovered.

A nation is a process not a fixed thing, but it has continuities nonetheless.

The joy that had come to him out of this affair would not wear away: that was a fixed thing in him.

Mr. Zweig makes the usually overlooked point that our risk tolerance is not a fixed thing, but changes from day to day, even hour to hour, depending on our mood.

A legacy, Presidential or otherwise, is not a fixed thing; both Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, as they diverged and fought over the war in Vietnam, were convinced that they remained true to the principles that John F. Kennedy espoused.

For Haraway, Western culture is extremely fetishistic, mistaking "a fixed thing for the doings of power-differentiated lively beings" (1997, 135).

"Unlike western music, we don't have written compositions or any fixed things," he says.

Earlier in the book, she takes a similarly synoptic view, explaining that what affected these playwrights' lives was America's "enormous energy, strength, vitality, desire to grow, enormous everything, but not much tradition, not too much hanging on to fixed things.

Fixed things around my house.

The idea that a man whose goods would sell for a million dollars is necessarily wealthier than one whose goods would sell for ten thousand depends entirely on pricing real, fixed things, like houses and chunks of precious metal, in something that is illusory, changing, and the target of the murky intentions of governments and bankers.

Yet the next act of each four-course, $98 fixed-price dinner would invariably set things right again.