The fixedness of his gaze upset her.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"fixedness" of the targets, but I don't think in the end it is going to be whether you can compare the two battles that will make the difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics] Reference

But then there was a stern fixedness of purpose in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of all countries] Reference

How can anything fixed be concerned with that which has no fixedness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PHILEBUS] Reference

Stephen looked with some fixedness at a point on the other side of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

SOCRATES: How can anything fixed be concerned with that which has no fixedness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philebus] Reference

Revision in the wikis is an escapable attribute that eliminates the fixedness of fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)] Reference

Conventional standards, which seemed to have the fixedness of the stars are blown to the winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference

If his eye looked calm, it was the tranquillity of apathetic ignorance, the fixedness of idiotcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

American youth of to-day; notably his fixedness of purpose, indomitable will, and great love of truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

His vest and shirt were open, as he gazed with an air of fixedness on the city, and conversed to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

There was neither love nor scorn in his look, -- a mere fixedness of purpose to make use of her some day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

In it we have a picture of matter in a crude condition, without fixedness of form, surrounded with darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880] Reference

But they are not so; they have an interest which holds the reader with a fixedness of grasp which he cannot loosen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference

This state is usually accompanied by an unmeaning stare or fixedness of countenance quite peculiar to the drunkard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

It was as if their eternal fixedness grieved them, and they were setting out in a tumultuous crowd to the ends of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

There was so much politeness in the Captain's manner, and yet evident fixedness of purpose, that Albert attempted no answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

There was a fixedness and a tenacity about this woman's regard for her youngest child that was, in a certain sense, very touching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Metals gain their tinging Spirits and Coagulation, in like manner do stones get their fixedness, and colour, as out of one Influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.] Reference

He could not but perceive that it was so from the fixedness of her face, and from the constrained manner in which she gazed before her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

Catherine on her side was silent for a while; she was looking at him while he looked, with a good deal of fixedness, out of the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Square] Reference

Then, clutching it tightly in his hand, he eyed me with a fixedness which, under any other circumstances, I should have found unbearable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

He looked at him, as he passed through the hall and up the staircase, going to dinner, with a glazed fixedness that Mr Dorrit did not like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

‘We know him by sight,’ said Mrs Brown, whose working mouth and nodding head stopped for the moment, in the fixedness of her attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dombey and Son] Reference

Again, in every process of reflection we seem to require a standing ground, and in the attempt to obtain a complete analysis we lose all fixedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sophist] Reference

One only time our gaze then met, with the lustrous fixedness (I believe I am correct in imputing that character to it?) of the well - known Basilisk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somebody's Luggage] Reference

In the car, the doctor, completely overwhelmed, sat with his arms folded on his breast, gazing with idiotic fixedness upon some imaginary point in space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference

Cornhill and Smithfield; with no more fixedness of purpose than to lose himself among their windings, and baffle pursuit, if any one were dogging his steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnaby Rudge] Reference

But there was in her gait and form, in her voice and countenance, a fixedness of purpose which he had never seen before, or at any rate had never acknowledged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of all countries] Reference

For where there is a regular succession, there is also fixedness; and where fixedness, there suitability to the period; and where suitability, there also utility.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

Nor is it easy to say how far ideas of order and fixedness may have had a moral and elevating influence on the minds of men, ‘who,’ in the words of the Timaeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

She looked at him with quivering lips through a mist of tears, looked at him with a desperate fixedness that sought to memorise indelibly his beloved image in her heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

It is this fixedness and placidity, conveying the impression of fate, death, repose, or immortality, which render sculpture so congenial as commemorative of the departed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Catherine stood there before the fire, with her hands behind her, looking at her aunt, to whom it seemed that the girl had never had just this dark fixedness in her gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Square] Reference

The scene made a strong impression on all in the party, there seemed to be such an earnestness and fixedness of purpose displayed that all felt these soldiers to be a power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference

To this he was probably led by the fixedness of Egyptian customs and the general observation that there were other civilisations in the world more ancient than that of Hellas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timaeus] Reference

But the secret of the magnet is, at length, revealed to him, and his needle now settles, with a fixedness which love has stolen as the symbol of its constancy, to the polar star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference