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  • They don't all turn out harmless — if, indeed, you can call Hagrid harmless, with that monster fixation he's got —†   (source)
  • His gaze was fixated on the far wall's displays.†   (source)
  • Mai and Willow Chance both fixated on the jail-like front panel of the beige plastic crate, where they saw an extremely large orange cat.†   (source)
  • Martina Crowe was especially fixated.†   (source)
  • And their nervous fixation upon Owen's medal, pinned to the American flag, suggested that the Meanys quite possibly feared that Owen might rise up from his casket as he had risen up from the mountain of hay in the manger—and once again reproach his parents.†   (source)
  • As for Clarissa—all those daylight hours curled up on the bed with pins and needles in her arm—it surely proved the case of Paradise Lost in reverse—the heroine became more loathsome as her death-fixated virtue was revealed.†   (source)
  • I didn't have any fingernails to paint"according to Lilly, I am orally fixated; if it fits in my mouth, I'll put it there"but I did borrow one of my mom's lipsticks, too.†   (source)
  • I'm fixated on the metal surgical table and keep sneaking looks at it from the corner of my eye, watching it blink and shimmer in the light like the edge of a blade.†   (source)
  • Look, sorry, are we talking about the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming in early sixties sitcoms?†   (source)
  • Now Eleanor fixated on all the small luxuries strewn and tucked around the house.†   (source)
  • Was it normal to fixate on strangers in this particular vivid, fevered way?†   (source)
  • He imagines gnomes and fixates on ants.†   (source)
  • I fell on my back, my eyes still fixated on Mother.†   (source)
  • For months in late 2003 and early 2004, there was a certain set of things that Colton seemed to fixate on.†   (source)
  • They are fixated on the brown and white blur.†   (source)
  • Gey was annoyed by the widespread fixation on HeLa.†   (source)
  • A waiter rushed up and helped me drag the table back into place as Jenny held Marley, still fixated on the object of his desire, in a death grip.†   (source)
  • And someone who will not admit to being preoccupied with sex can be the first to be incensed at other people's sex-fixation.†   (source)
  • I admit I'm overly logical about a lot of things, but I firmly believe that one of my most appropriate fixations has been to manage time well.†   (source)
  • He fixates on the "6" on Doleman's jersey, the way a basketball defender stares at the midsection of the dribbling opponent.†   (source)
  • The last two magnets — round black utilitarian pieces that were my favorites because they could hold ten sheets of paper to the fridge without breaking a sweat — did not want to cooperate with my fixation.†   (source)
  • i was so fixated on this that I jumped, my heart racing, when Rogerson tapped on the windshield in front of my face.†   (source)
  • He couldn't begin to comprehend, now, how far off the track he was with his baptismal fixation.†   (source)
  • He called Burnham a "colossal merchandiser" fixated on building the biggest, tallest, costliest structures.†   (source)
  • She's what the psychologists call fixated on the subject.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel became fixated on California, wanted to visit his father and was polite but indifferent toward the men who came calling on his mother about a year after the split.†   (source)
  • By then her casebook was filled with terms such as introverted, socially inhibited, lacking in empathy, ego-fixated, psychopathic and asocial behaviour, difficulty in cooperating, and incapable of assimilating learning.†   (source)
  • My eyes were fixated on his lips, the white teeth gleaming behind them.†   (source)
  • Why fixate on garbage like the rate of warden employment when there were serial killers to discuss?†   (source)
  • He turned and looked back at the one they called Reverend Mother, studying the dried crone features, the fathomless blue fixation of her eyes.†   (source)
  • Seventy-six percent of all fixations were on the letters.†   (source)
  • Personally, Jean de Satigny had no particular fixation on virginity, and he had not raised the issue when he asked her hand in marriage.†   (source)
  • All these girls, young women: it could have been a sexual fixation, yet Norah knew instinctively that it was not.†   (source)
  • But the turtle seemed fixated on eating the Argo II.†   (source)
  • And I so didn't want anyone to ever mention what only a couple of people knew—that Heath was looking for me because I'd tasted his blood and he was fast becoming fixated on me, something humans do pretty easily when they get involved with vamps—even vamp fledglings, for that matter.†   (source)
  • She was the only other person in the tent last night, and she seemed really fixated on the drugs—†   (source)
  • As she inched her way to the edge of the court, she noticed that the other girls in the audience seemed fixated on the two players on the right.†   (source)
  • Marie and many of their friends had begun to wonder at the completeness of his fixation.†   (source)
  • Kennedy's fixation on movies rivals his other favorite recreational pursuit: sex.†   (source)
  • By that time I was no longer fixated on gaining Tom's attention or being seen with a handsome boy.†   (source)
  • A frenzy of studying for mid-October's midterms gave Cedric a break from the fixating strife with Rob.†   (source)
  • You were defined by your fixation.†   (source)
  • The crowd pressed toward the stage, fixated on the case.†   (source)
  • "Kinda what you'd call a fixation, huh?" said the show's host, whose name was Melvin.†   (source)
  • Which probably explains his fixation on the Trials.†   (source)
  • While the priest spoke, Max fixated upon his father's hands.†   (source)
  • But Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering.†   (source)
  • With a mountain climber's fixation, he felt it looming irresistibly to the east.†   (source)
  • Belle's fixation on Harlon's place in the photograph, though, remained unshakable.†   (source)
  • It was amazing how it sucked you in and you'd find yourself fixated on it.†   (source)
  • Whatever sick fixation you have with me ends here today.†   (source)
  • Then you were aware of everything that was going on around you, yet you were not fixated on any one detail.†   (source)
  • A million hopefuls have fixated on that sign as a symbol of future movie careers, and I sure do apologize about it being destroyed.†   (source)
  • The driver, who had been fixated on the convoy's tracks, slammed on the brakes.†   (source)
  • Fixation?†   (source)
  • While he'd been killing Afghanis in the desert, his mind had finally fixated on that hole.†   (source)
  • I guess it's kind of dumb to be fixating on the glorious Courtney Chetwynde when the real problem is that I'm afraid I'm going to die.†   (source)
  • There is also this fixation that Clover has about her mother.†   (source)
  • Old Stingo, I mused as she climbed upward, there must be some perversity in this dorsal fixation.†   (source)
  • Most American males have a fixation about the mammary gland.†   (source)
  • The idea grew in Will Hodge's mind—or fixation, maybe—as he wound his way up the Creek Road toward Batavia.†   (source)
  • It took me a long time but I soon became aware of an underlying, pervasive fixation for violence among the people of the island.†   (source)
  • Because he had a poison fixation.†   (source)
  • Rather than leadership, we see a fixation on daily poll results.
  • The fixation on short-term profits eroded long-term growth.
  • an excessive fixation on the opposite sex
  • Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.   (source)
  • But Annie was still fixated on the other matter.†   (source)
  • He was fixated on the idea that Steven Kemp had taken his people.†   (source)
  • I move past the wounded, past the burning plane wrecks, fixated on the disaster ahead of me.†   (source)
  • Rosa Amalia wants Belky to stop living in limbo, always fixating on reunifying with her mother.†   (source)
  • His fixation is feet"in particular, Lilly's feet.†   (source)
  • As I came closer, I saw he was actually fixated on the wrinkled sheet of paper in his hand.†   (source)
  • It's bad enough that Emily has to deal withyour fixation.†   (source)
  • I fixate on the idea of someone calling Dell Duke "Big Boy."†   (source)
  • Or do I see the president fixated on me as well?†   (source)
  • He couldn't understand the corporal's fixation on him, and was desperate for someone to save him.†   (source)
  • I look over at Finnick for confirmation, see he's fixated on Peeta, his words.†   (source)
  • To me a stalker is someone I don't know who's become fixated on me.†   (source)
  • The elder's face was white, fixated on the water.†   (source)
  • With a million thoughts running through my mind, I became fixated with my cheap Timex watch.†   (source)
  • Neves, still fixated on riding the rest of the card, bolted from his gurney and made a run for it.†   (source)
  • What was it with these rich people, a druid fixation?'†   (source)
  • Those words ...I think she meant them to be reassuring, but my father became fixated on them.†   (source)
  • It will keep your mind from fixating on it.†   (source)
  • I fixated on her well-formed ankle, the lovely lines leading to her shiny black pump.†   (source)
  • Only 35 percent of total fixations fell on the letters.†   (source)
  • She knew that whomever Kayla was fixated on was absolutely nothing like Will.†   (source)
  • I fixate on his hemp necklace, which is, as always, peeking out from under his shirt collar.†   (source)
  • But the goddess of misery was now fixated on Percy.†   (source)
  • He fixated upon death's terrible finality in that icy creek.†   (source)
  • Cain's whole body goes still as he fixates on Zak.†   (source)
  • Ryan moved around the bed, like a man walking dead and unseen, fixated on the picture.†   (source)
  • I caught my breath as my gaze became fixated on her assortment of towering red Christmas candles.†   (source)
  • Her large, dark eyes were fixated on Glass's head.†   (source)
  • The Commandant seems indifferent to the clamor, fixated as she is on her work.†   (source)
  • I also become a little fixated on his eyelashes, which ordinarily you don't notice much because they're so blond.†   (source)
  • Had Sam or Jared or Quil ever gone a whole day without seeing the objects of their fixations, Emily, Kim, and Claire?†   (source)
  • Crake would get fixated on a game, and would want to play it and play it and perfect his attack until he was sure he could win, nine times out of ten anyway.†   (source)
  • Katherine still seemed fixated on the gold capstone, looking incredulous that the inscription was so unhelpful.†   (source)
  • He fixated on two letters.†   (source)
  • As I worked my way through graduate school studying writing, I became fixated on the idea of someday telling Henrietta's story.†   (source)
  • The beast fixates on Bernie Kosar.†   (source)
  • All I want is to get out of here, but Hana says, "Sure," so I trudge along after her, silently cursing her curiosity and fixation with all things Invalid-related and vowing never to let her pick our running route again.†   (source)
  • It was written in one long paragraph, with little punctuation and many spelling errors, and at first I fixated on these grammatical irregularities as a way to mute the text.†   (source)
  • Realizing with shame that my fixation with assassinating Snow has allowed me to ignore a much more difficult problem.†   (source)
  • I couldn't face the queen and the girls and possibly Maxon while my mind was so solidly fixated on Aspen.†   (source)
  • A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that has just arrived at their banquet table.†   (source)
  • Almondine stood silhouetted near the window, drawing the deep breaths that meant she was fixated on something fascinating or alarming.†   (source)
  • This woman's feelings, obsessed though they might have been, had never evolved into Annie's paranoid fixation, but Paul understood now that the wellspring had been the same.†   (source)
  • The fixation this man had on the Solomon family was beyond fanatical, and yet Katherine saw nothing yet to suggest why.†   (source)
  • Though there were hundreds of POWs in camp, this deranged corporal was fixated on Louie, hunting the former Olympian, whom he would call "number one prisoner."†   (source)
  • Considering how briefly he remained vertical, Edgar gleaned an admirable amount of information about the situation: there was Essay and Baboo and Tinder, hackles raised, fixated on something across the room; there was Henry Lamb, the object of their attention, wrapped in a threadbare checkered bathrobe, standing puffy-faced and startled in his bedroom doorway; and beyond the living room window there was a perfectly nice summer morning pouring itself into the yard.†   (source)
  • Those green eyes fixate on a point with such intensity that you find yourself trying to make out what she sees in the empty air.†   (source)
  • The Weirdos could be counted on to chew bits of their own stringy hair and fixate, non-blinking, on a dirt spot on the carpeting while a fire blazed right behind them.†   (source)
  • PHASE TWO
    periods of euphoria; hysterical laughter and heightened energy periods of despair; lethargy
    changes in appetite; rapid weight loss or weight gain fixation; loss of other interests
    compromised reasoning skills; distortion of reality
    disruption of sleep patterns; insomnia or constant fatigue obsessive thoughts and actions
    paranoia; insecurity†   (source)
  • "Robert," Katherine whispered, her gaze still fixated on the massive figures of America's great inventors accompanied by Minerva.†   (source)
  • I take a step forward into the cell, suddenly fixated on a shaft of light, extending like a long golden finger from a space in the wall that has been chipped clear away.†   (source)
  • The emptiness had never left him, and he found himself fixated on his failed attempt to steal Peter Solomon's pyramid.†   (source)
  • She was considering telling the OS director about the hacker, but Sato seemed fixated on Eight Franklin Square at the moment.†   (source)
  • Instead I'm fixated by the writing on the stall door, how Ally laughed and pointed to the copycat artists elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Was this fixation with keeping me human really about my soul, or was it because he wasn't sure that he wanted me around that long?†   (source)
  • No, it's the fact that Luke isso good with his father, showing endless patience with the old man's fixation on his winery and its history and the telling of it.†   (source)
  • Cynthia was concerned about Turtle's tendency to bury the dollies, believing that it indicated a fixation with death, but I assured her that Turtle was only trying to grow dolly trees.†   (source)
  • We have this fixation on softness.†   (source)
  • He exhaled, his mind fixated on the primitive but eerie similarities between Astaroth and this ancient Wanderer of the shaman's tale.†   (source)
  • If Oz had not been so fixated on his mother, he might have jumped for the window at the sight of the woman.†   (source)
  • The television series Dallas will one day be seen as a caricature of this fixation on garish wealth, but the real Dallas is not that different.†   (source)
  • The multicultural miasma, with its fixation on group identity and loyalty and authenticity, still unsettles him, though not quite as much as when he arrived last fall.†   (source)
  • Dempsey, still fixated, perhaps, on the lush grounds of their compound in Moshi, took great care with his herb garden, and ordered his son to leave no weeds standing.†   (source)
  • Belle—haunted Belle, ravaged Belle, tireless, fixated, unrelenting Belle—had been right all along.†   (source)
  • These seemed to be BoneMan's fixation.†   (source)
  • We jump from one of these chunks to another, pausing— or fixating — on them long enough to make sense of each letter.†   (source)
  • Everything focused on personal behavior and group identity, inward fixations; everyone a one-man show, displaying themselves through consumerism and fashion.†   (source)
  • And if she was alive—which he finally convinced himself she must be, if for no other reason than that BoneMan was too fixated on tormenting them both to end it so quickly—she could be badly hurt.†   (source)
  • Better still, 83 percent of all preschoolers fixated on the letters in a left-to-right sequence — mimicking, in other words, the actual reading process.†   (source)
  • If you can track where someone's fovea is moving and what they are fixating on, in other words, you can tell with extraordinary precision what they are actually looking at and what kind of information they are actually receiving.†   (source)
  • First, the letter shouldn't have been on the bottom of the screen because, as almost all eye movement research demonstrates, when it comes to television people tend to fixate on the center of the screen.†   (source)
  • If you make a beer commercial with a beautiful model, it would be really important to know whether the average twenty-two-year-old male in your target audience fixates only on the model or eventually moves to your can of beer.†   (source)
  • How often had she heard Rudolf Hoss order his aide Scheffler to put in a telephone call to Herr Durrfeld at the Buna factory without realizing (except in her subconscious) that the recipient of the call was her romantic fixation of long ago?†   (source)
  • An oral fixation, possibly?†   (source)
  • For the following hour or so, toiling alongside Lotte over the Floss household laundry (the prisoners in the house were spared the lethally grueling and interminable roll calls of the rest of the camp; luckily, Sophie was compelled only to wash the vast heaps of soiled clothing from upstairsabnormally plenteous because of Frau Hoss's fixation about germs and filth), she fantasized all manner of little skits and playlets in which she and the Commandant had finally been drawn into some intimate connection whereby she was able to pour out the story that would lead to her redemption.†   (source)
  • Some random jabber: "My analyst said that the reason I find it hard to come is that I'm pre-genitally fixated."†   (source)
  • Exhausted, I hear Leslie's cataract of words as if through muffled layers of wool, trying without much success to piece it all together—this scrambled confessional with its hodgepodge of terms like Reichian and Jungian, Adlerian, a Disciple of Karen Homey, sublimation, gestalt, fixations, toilet training, and other things I have been aware of but never heard a human being speak of in such tones, which down South are reserved for Thomas Jefferson, Uncle Remus and the blessed Trinity.†   (source)
  • 5 The literature of psychoanalysis abounds in examples of such desperate fixations.†   (source)
  • He knew that the century had gone in which the best part of his life had passed; he felt, more than ever, the strangeness and loneliness of our little adventure upon the earth: he thought of his childhood on the Dutch farm, the Baltimore days, the aimless drift down the continent, the appalling fixation of his whole life upon a series of accidents.†   (source)
  • This is an image of the magic circle drawn about the personality by the dragon power of the fixating parent.†   (source)
  • waiting for the next picture which the mentor, the corruptor, intended for it: that next picture, following the fixation and acceptance of which the mentor would say again, perhaps with words now, still watching the sober and thoughtful face but still secure in his knowledge and trust in that puritan heritage which must show disapproval instead of surprise or even despair and nothing at all rather than have the disapprobation construed as surprise or despair: 'But even this is not it': and Henry, 'You mean, it is still higher than this, still above this?'†   (source)
  • So essential when there was under-production; but in an age of machines and the fixation of nitrogen-positively a crime against society.†   (source)
  • It was just one of his father's fixations, David had concluded, to want tremendous power in the beast he handled just as he himself seemed possessed of tremendous power.†   (source)
  • Rieux tried a fixation abscess.†   (source)
  • Even after decanting, he's still inside a bottle-an invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations.†   (source)
  • We remain fixated to the unexercised images of our infancy, and hence disinclined to the necessary passages of our adulthood.†   (source)
  • Most amazing is the fact that a great number of the ritual trials and images correspond to those that appear automatically in dream the moment the psychoanalyzed patient begins to abandon his infantile fixations and to progress into the future.†   (source)
  • For the ogre aspect of the father is a reflex of the victim's own ego—derived from the sensational nursery scene that has been left behind, but projected before; and the fixating idolatry of that pedagogical nonthing is itself the fault that keeps one steeped in a sense of sin, sealing the potentially adult spirit from a better balanced, more realistic view of the father, and therewith of the world.†   (source)
  • And what is this fixation he has about work?†   (source)
  • The director occasionally lent Paravant a hand in his melancholy puttering, even encouraged him in the fixation.†   (source)
  • Would you allow me"—and here Herr Settembrini bent forward on his chair, and with a smile he placed both feet on the floor, tucked his folded hands between his knees, and thrust his head forward at a slight tilt—"would you allow me," he repeated with some emotion in his voice, "to lend you a helping hand in your exercises and experiments and to play a corrective role whenever I see danger looming in the form of some pernicious fixation?"†   (source)
  • The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been invented as yet, at that epoch.†   (source)
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