Republicans have left a little room for diverse views, such as the neo-isolationism and currency fixations of Ron Paul.
The infantile fixations of the libido are what determine the form of neurosis which sets in later.
But the fixations of the filmmakers – the private lives of the privileged – will turn her work into the historical equivalent of Hello! magazine.
The spaceship must be ingeniously made, of course; but then mysterious hyperdrives luck, fate, the fixations of "the moment," whether or not the book was published before 2016 would appear to kick in.
The fixations of the two men, Mr. Rabe said, place them squarely in the ranks of Chekhov characters, who tend to be "always pining for that manifestation of something".
Alas, the temptation to write that is just too strong, even after a conversation with Simon Mawer about his new novel, Tightrope, and its lead character reveals a good-natured frustration with the fixations of the press.
What might initially seem arbitrary turns out to be acutely observed and cleverly put together: the raging hormones of Stokely youth are sublimated in ideas about virgin impregnation and salvation, and the obsessional fixations of teenhood.
Videotape received one of its earliest and most memorable starring roles in "Videodrome" (1982), which merged the body-horror fixations of its director, David Cronenberg, with the techno-philosophical musings of the media guru (and fellow Canadian) Marshall McLuhan.
These axioms of Appalachian Protestantism, which you can hear in songs like the Stanley Brothers' "Rank Stranger," are the fixations of Welch's "The Harrow & The Harvest" (2011), her fourth and most recent album, whose master theme is fatalism.
Majoli is a student of art, and, for more than a decade, he has been enthralled by the philosophical fixations of the Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello, who advocated that the blurry line between theatre and reality is erased more often than we might like to admit.
The results of that stressful period are evident throughout the album: compared to the fanciful fantasy preoccupations of previous releases – especially the death and water fixations of Ceremonials – this is Welch facing up to reality, confronting her emotional demons in a frank manner.
