Fashion came next, which, like his photography today, exhibited an intense fixation on rock culture.
Whether constant recording of such missteps, and the inevitable intense fixation on them, will over time serve the public interest and help voters make more "informed" decisions is not yet settled in my view.
If the unhappy eating pattern involves overchewing and an intense fixation, or even aversion to food, then a distraction like a book or TV, and picking up the pace of eating, can actually help.
But anti-trans rancor isn't limited to livid cultural commentary ― or even slurs, deliberate misgendering and intense fixation on the gender binary in public discourse.
Some moments are banal -- a finger pushing an elevator button or a girl zipping up her dress -- yet Tomicek's intense fixation on his subjects asks you to look closer.
It is the same merciless combat with the dauphine of an old chief whose antisemitism, racism and hatred of democracy, culture and intelligence have been (and remain) an intense and morbid fixation.
It is also unclear whether this continuum should be extended to include the possession of isolated "autistic traits"—peculiar, intense preoccupations and fixations, often combined with relative social withdrawal or remoteness such as one encounters in any number of people conventionally called "normal," or seen, at most, as a little odd, eccentric, pedantic, or reclusive.
The other defining feature of autism, for Kanner, was "an obsessive insistence on sameness": most simply in the form of repetitive, stereotyped movements and noises ("stereotypies"); then in the adoption of elaborate rituals and routines; finally, in the appearance of strange, narrow preoccupations highly focussed, intense fascinations and fixations.
The other defining feature of autism, for Kanner, was "an obsessive insistence on sameness": most simply in the form of repetitive, stereotyped movements and noises ("stereotypies"); then in the adoption of elaborate rituals and routines; finally, in the appearance of strange, narrow preoccupations — highly focussed, intense fascinations and fixations.
It is also unclear whether this continuum should be extended to include the possession of isolated "autistic traits" — peculiar, intense preoccupations and fixations, often combined with relative social withdrawal or remoteness — such as one encounters in any number of people conventionally called "normal," or seen, at most, as a little odd, eccentric, pedantic, or reclusive.
Ancient peoples liked the sweeter phenotype, applying intense selection, which led to fixation of the r allele in populations of cultivated peas.
