Sentence examples for whose fixation from inspiring English sources

In the study, the patients, whose fixation on illness had greatly interfered with their daily lives, did not see their symptoms disappear.

They include Duncan Bannatyne of Dragon's Den, as well as anonymous US bidders, whose fixation with the monarchy led to a flurry of late bids on Friday.

(Harcourt, $24.) Bausch's fourth novel concerns Henry Porter, 39, the sole flop in a family of successes, whose fixation in preternatural adolescence is mitigated by his own humiliations and the kindness of others.

The most touching character is Jacob, the foot fetishist, a traveling salesman and devoted husband whose fixation occasionally brings him extreme pleasure but more often crippling shame, so that he couldn't even tell his spouse.

There is some doubt as to whether Apollinaire was really the author of Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan, which chronicles the sexual awakening of Roger, a 15-year-old boy whose fixation with carnal knowledge turns him into an object of desire for a large group of women – including his own aunt.

This figure, of course, doesn't include moneys that I am owed in the coming fiscal month; nor does it reflect outstanding debts to various private individuals and business entities whose fixation on the bottom line has apparently blinded them to the value of warm collegial relations.

It signalled the arrival of a new kind of emphatically American auteur, whose geekish fixation with the minutiae of popular culture was offset by an equally in-depth knowledge of both European and Eastern cinema.

But we WILL be showing the photos of both Dana Goldstein and Jamie Taete (whose celebrity fixation runs so deep he legally changed his name to Jamie Lee Curtis Taete).

Each of these hosts associates with a single, unique symbiont phylotype, whose carbon fixation supports most if not all of the nutritional requirements of the adult host (Krueger et al. 1992).

If fixation A starts on the current fragment and ends on the next, we need to (1) create a first fixation whose onset fits with fixation A's onset and drag the cursor a bit further than the end of the fixations box, (2) create a second fixation on the next fragment whose offset fits with fixation A's offset, and (3) merge both fixations.

In contrast, segmental duplicates begin as polymorphisms whose probability of fixation and time to fixation depend on genetic drift and natural selection [ 14].