Each is permanently set to 00 00; the hour and minute indicators turn over, but time marches in place.
He sweeps into the office 10 minutes late, which is odd because his watch is permanently set 20 minutes ahead in a patently vain effort to be punctual.
It's fun to watch him eat, to witness the physical manifestation of a fact: the level of Fish's hunger is permanently set to high.
Athletic department officials joke that Pasternack's mind, if not his watch, seems to be permanently set ahead by 15 minutes.
Its two burners, covered by lids to conserve heat when not cooking, are permanently set at two temperatures, high and medium low.
The clock over the bar is permanently set to 3 11 because, Conor Roddy explained, that's the exact moment when the Titanic went down.
"The Constitution will be adopted probably next August, and the election authority will be permanently set up in September," he said.
Typically, a fixed shutter setting gives about 1/50-second exposure; the lens is permanently set to record sharply all objects more than about five feet (1.5 metres) from the camera.
Frodo is played by Elijah Wood, whose pert features are permanently set in a kind of glazed, dazed, saucer-eyed expression of shock, as if he had just been goosed by one of the elves.
In later years, he would say his new novel, even more ambitious than the first, had been permanently set back when crucial sections of the book were destroyed in a fire at his country house in the Berkshires in 1967.
