That is, the man's beliefs are fixed, and his faith is shallow.
"We didn't endorse the bill or ask anyone to vote for it; we're for fixing the faith-based initiative," said Will Marshal, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a research group for centrist Democrats.
Science works well within very fixed parameters, but only faith can explain what exists beyond them.
Those who lack faith in fixed order and stable places have a harder time building monuments that must, in their nature, be monolithically stable and certain.
But the initial, heedless reactions to Ms. Sandberg's book spoke to a larger problem, namely the pressures that the twenty-four/seven hamster-wheel pace of the contemporary media puts on writers: to speed up rather than to slow down, to shoot first and ask questions later, to create drama, and, sometimes, to operate from a place of bad faith and fixed biases.
But to some of his critics the paper was really just a case of Dr. Everett — who said he began questioning his own Chomskian ideas in the early 1990s, around the time he began questioning his faith — fixing the facts around his new theories.
And yes, we are in depression, but that offers the American government the opportunity to once-and-for-all fix our utopian faith in the free market by simultaneously raising taxes and cutting spending.
Many of the issues I feel most strongly about seem to be ingrained, systematic problems within politics, which I have little faith will be fixed.
The show dealt with child abuse, rape, and other forms of damage, which, in Perry's vision, could be fixed by prayer and by faith, and it had a strong gospel-music element.
Given these, it seems a stretch to put too much faith in a fixed relationship with bond yields, much less the view that shares are fairly valued when these yields are equal.
