Sentence examples for fix on him from inspiring English sources

"The great danger by attacking this one man is that we can fix on him a halo of victimhood" and boost his popularity among supporters, he said.

It was strong -- it took four of us topinitdown--andhad an abundance of character and a withering self- awareness: it knew it was going to die and knew enough to spot the wuss in the group and fix on him pretty much exclusively.

Ultimately I fix on him via his place in a spatio-temporal framework which is centred on my currently perceived environment.

Only later, from a burly Iraqi prison guard who clasped Mr. Hussein's right arm on his way in and out of the court, did Dr. Muwaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq's new national security adviser, discover that Mr. Hussein was trying to get a fix on him, one of the two officials who sat watching Mr. Hussein from the lower tier of the stall.

"I couldn't get a fix on him," Lennon said.

Tintoretto (1518-94) is the most mercurial of the five undisputed immortals of Venetian painting — the others being Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and Veronese — and I was eager to see the Prado show, because I have never managed to get a satisfying fix on him.

Children pick up on this and see a kind of ally in Kinky, immediately fixing on him as the most interesting person in the room.

Until one of those mesmerizing religious teachers fixed on him.

At one point in midperformance Mr. Baldwin noticed Mr. LaBeouf and fixed on him for a beat; it was unclear if he was surprised to see him there.

The television camera fixed on him, alone in left field, a pained expression on his face.

Britton fixed on him a look her fans know well: wide-eyed, wary disbelief.