Sentence examples for fixedly from inspiring English sources

" I don't think there is any point in focusing fixedly on sales if you really want to be a writer.

Unlike Kepler, which stares fixedly at a single patch of space, TESS would survey the whole sky.

He dedicates a mobile phone exclusively to the Greek and glowers at it fixedly, willing it to ring.

The faithful gazed fixedly at the pulpit.

The image one sees with one's eyes closed after looking fixedly at a bright light (an afterimage) is another example.

There is nothing so restless as the nomenclature of New York's constantly evolving neighbourhoods, yet for hundreds of years – since 18th-century traders first gathered under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street – the lower tip of Manhattan has been firmly, fixedly, forever the Financial District.

I stare fixedly at the concrete floor through the hole in the Swedish massage table.

Pinochet shook my hand when he walked into the room, but he didn't look me in the eye, and when he sat down he stared fixedly at his daughter.

Like the philosopher who was so busy gazing at the stars that he tripped into a well, the oft-ridiculed director Ed Wood stared so fixedly at his own grandiose designs that he stumbled upon the stuff of filmmaking.

Everyone seems carefree except the king, who looks fixedly out of the mural, as if searching for the improbable spectator, with dark, wide-open eyes in which I often thought I glimpsed terror.

The F.B.I., having observed him as fixedly as we have, bursts in and arrests him.