But we are all very fixated on our own ideas.
Melanie Rehak "McDonald's is very fixated on designers like Hilfiger or Polo.
"At first, people were very fixated on their portfolio losses — it was so dramatic and so quick," said June Walbert, certified financial planner at USAA. "With job losses, people began looking at ways to cut back".
I would catch myself getting very fixated on things: a text message, a nature film, or a conversation.
For example, children who were typically happy and active participants in the classroom (i.e., those who normally raised their hands and were excited to answer questions) became quiet and depressed observers, worked very slowly, became fixated on their pain, or tried to find excuses not to work.
For many viewers, the very genre is inherently trivial, fixated on surface beauty and reassuring nostalgia.
We have been here before, many times; once, very specifically, when John Hinckley, Jr., became fixated on "Taxi Driver", which came out five years before Hinckley attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan.
Anthony Lane, the New Yorker We have been here before, many times; once, very specifically, when John Hinckley, Jr., became fixated on "Taxi Driver", which came out five years before Hinckley attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan.
In one respect, for all the hearings and blue-ribbon panels, the fresh dumps of documents and the legislative proposals, the date remains June 6 , 2013– and our public debate (at least within the United States) remains fixated on the very first program revealed by the Guardian using Snowden's trove of documents: the NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata.
Why, I started wondering, is so much of the discourse around club culture and dance music, both written and verbal, fixated on a very specific kind of lexis — the language of violence.
We are very much a culture of denial, fixated on our perceived wounds.
