The complacency of recent films about Brazil, which treat the country as if it were fixated only on sexual concerns set to a samba beat, have a built-in condescension.
The agenda inside the Ducal Palace, which included a meeting with the leaders of Nigeria and Bangladesh, was clearly intended to demonstrate that the wealthiest nations were not fixated only on their own slow economic growth in the last year.
But if the architect and artist Fritz Haeg has his way, everyone in the country will not only be fixated on their lawns, but they will also be harvesting them.
Yang nevertheless continued to be fixated on the Korean campaigns, and only as unrest spread within the Empire and the powerful Eastern Turks turned hostile, did he realize the gravity of the situation: in 616, he abandoned the north and withdrew to Jiangdu, where he remained until his assassination in 618.
And to suggest that all of them are fixated on Cumberbatch only because they dream of having sex with him is, if my interviewees are to be believed, far from the truth.
As a culture, we are fixated on believing in only what we can see, but there is so much more to reality.
He won't tell me what he did, only that he was fixated on violence.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, stopping here on his way to a meeting with President Bush in Washington, said today that elements of the American government were "fixated" on attacking Iraq and that only Secretary of State Colin L. Powell understood the true dimensions of the challenge.
