Sentence examples for collective fixation from inspiring English sources
This collective fixation allows for passages of explanation that are not authorial insertions.
If it was geography that made this great forgetting possible, what completed the disappearing act was our collective fixation with the one redemptive chapter in the whole story.
Although I'm a climate scientist by training, I worry about this collective fixation on global warming as the mother of all environmental problems.
That in itself is pleasantly subversive, given our collective fixation on "likable" protagonists, and it's not hard to see parallels with writer-director William Monahan's award-winning screenplay for The Departed.
Who is responsible for this collective fixation on growth?
The Wu-Tang were a Staten Island collective with a fixation for kung fu movies and a scuzzy, adroit aesthetic, the RZA's sparse production matched by the intricate lyrical performances of the group's nine MCs.
Nevertheless, beginning in the 16th century, the fixation on Antichrist as a coming or present terrible individual gave way to the view of Antichrist as a collective body of evil.
(Structural fixation: A collective, contextually induced obsession that becomes a temporary locus of greed, competition, and envy).
Many colloquialisms, like "beauty is only skin deep," suggest that there is collective acknowledgment that the fixation on physical beauty is superficial, Dr. Synnott writes.
Hannah Pittard's novel, like Jeffrey Eugenides's, is set in an ordinary American smalltown neighbourhood where a group of young teens develop an unhealthy fixation on the missing 16-year-old, speaking of her in a collective voice, like a Greek chorus: "We imagined both Nora and ourselves, 10 years, 20 years from now . . .
Both inside music (reunion tours, revivalism, deluxe reissues, performances of classic albums in their entirety) and outside (the emergence of YouTube as a gigantic collective archive, endless movie remakes, the strange and melancholy world of retro porn), there was mounting evidence to indicate an unhealthy fixation on the bygone.
