But as a physiologist, he fixates on the people carrying his stuff.
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Williamson fixates on the willful stupidity of the poor because he must.
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One woman, abandoned by her husband, fixates on a parmesan mill's "comfort" grip.
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Today, the Fed fixates on nudging the inflation rate up to 6900 percent.
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The media fixates on their hairstyles, their clothing and makeup, scowls and tics.
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"Once Cole kind of fixates on something, he doesn't let it go," says Kuae.
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Fixates on "Trump is bad" as the end all be all of political analysis.
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Maureen Dowd fixates on Tina Fey's figure, which seems to distract her from meaningful observations.
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"Magdalene," her new album, fixates on another aspect of passion: selfless devotion that expresses faith.
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He fixates on the idea that human sacrifice must be part of the native rituals.
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The show fixates on what it's like to become deeply involved in a pyramid scheme.
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So when Trump fixates on something or, in this case, someone, you know it's meaningful.
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When she stands him up for dinner – which was rude, sure – he fixates on it deeply.
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While Gamot likes many older tattoo artists, Roudaut fixates on the newer, up-and-coming generation.
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The number that fixates Juventus, though, is six: the number of finals the club has lost.
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Darla sees their dad in Randall in the way he talks, moves and fixates on projects.
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She must act independently without coming across as defiant to a president who fixates on loyalty.
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Russell Crowe plays Richie Roberts, the New Jersey cop who fixates on taking down Lucas's empire.
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Look for a strand that allows you to be creative and choose what your mind fixates on.
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His eyes roll back in his head as he fixates on the rivers of capital sloshing about.
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Despite its long history, China's president speaks of the future while America's leader fixates on the past.
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Critic's Pick The singer, dancer and video artist's new album fixates on selfless devotion that expresses faith.
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The Trump plan for NAFTA wrongly fixates on the strawman of bilateral trade deficits, especially with Mexico.
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The crime devastates her doting father, who fixates on aging, suicide and the demise of his marriage.
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Ron quickly fixates on his feud with Veronica, leading to a mistake that costs him his career.
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The press briefly fixates on a "side eye" from Kate to Camilla Bowles during the unexpectedly political sermon.
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But while the world fixates on the negatives — and there are many — of Brexit, it does have its upsides.
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The camera often fixates on ostensible clues: a postcard, books, mysterious home movies in which no one is seen.
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Not in their scale or high-definition, but in the intense and dreamy way that he fixates on his subjects.
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As Sara fixates on the cat, Marie speaks to a neighborhood mom who just arrived to the park with her infant.
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And, as is typical with GOP regulatory "reform" blueprints, it fixates only on the costs of regulation, not its public benefits.
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Nocebo is something of an inverse to this idea, instead of a creation of a space, it fixates on the absence.
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And most Republicans in national office now will happily follow his lead and swarm around each successive story he fixates on.
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The heroes themselves are untouchable corporate entities, but The Boys fixates on the collateral damage that tends to trail superhuman hijinks.
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And yet, time and again, Trump singularly fixates on the election, mistaking the starting gun of his presidency for the finish line.
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Bruckner also fixates on some motif or statement and puts it through a series of sequences, or subjects it to intricate development.
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Likewise, "Wall Street Windows" (43) fixates on the repetition of pairs of windows on a building as seen through an obstructing stairwell.
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She still fixates on some things in the way she once fixated on drugs, and now, her fixation has shifted to George.
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Instead, he often fixates on any hint of criticism, deeming the network ungrateful for the high ratings that he attributes to himself.
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Not to its credit is the rest of the film, which repeatedly fixates on the brain's potential to psychosomatically change a body's physiology.
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Steele's approach fixates on realism, and so this one of those few science fiction novels that could, in time, look similar to fact.
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Change Agent fixates on the minutiae of payment processing, security authentication, and display technology with more verve than action sequences or character development.
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Yet those controversies resonated little beyond the Beltway class that fixates on who is up and who is down in a new administration.
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His leadership strategy abandons all efforts to achieve substantive change in Congress and fixates instead on messaging bills that serve only partisan purposes.
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Instead, Swon fixates on the theatrical spectacle provided by their fears and desires, as though they were seen through the eyes of a voyeur.
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The human interest stories he fixates on will present no big revelations; the general public is already familiar with the issues and individuals involved.
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The media fixates on scandals because they're easier to talk about than complex issues like why urban and rural America are drifting further apart.
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Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fixates on women, tracking infertility in the U.S. by tallying the number of supposedly infertile women.
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But when the plot fixates on suburban angst, Behrman risks staleness with well-worn tropes like the closeted jock or the homophobic school bully.
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As we move outside, the frame is filtered through a hazy black-and-white lens and fixates on a floating rock island in the sky.
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The accident left him with tinnitus, and to cope, "Baby" fixates on music, wearing headphones at all times and collecting iPods from the cars he boosts.
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Tactically, that means being laser-focused on generating local news coverage of policy accomplishments, even when the national cable news fixates on the latest Trump outrage.
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While the president fixates on tariffs, his administration is drawing an "economic iron curtain" across the world, as the former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put it.
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The work that most deeply and creatively engages with the central theme — the obsession with a lost, imaginary past — fixates on a pier, not a bridge.
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Love him or hate him, Trump fixates on turning campaign promises into reality— or at least making the case that he tried: Conservative Supreme Court justice?
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Buttigieg is poised to benefit from post-primary coverage — especially if the media fixates on Sanders somewhat underperforming the margins many thought his campaign could deliver.
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The more Trump fixates on an opponent he vanquished months ago and whines about vote tallies and crowd sizes, the more he seems small and insecure.
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John Mulaney guest hosting Saturday Night Live can only mean one thing: It's time for another send-up of hit musicals that fixates on something gross.
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Go deeper: Judge fixates on Manafort's ties to suspected Russian intelligence operative Timeline: Every big move in the Mueller investigation The biggest political scandal in American history
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The former fixates on the erotic potential of a car crash; in the latter, a pair of women engage in sex scenes choreographed by sex educator Susie Bright.
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For all its intimacy and melodic grace, "Aromanticism" — true to its title — sets out to re-examine the ways our culture idealizes and fixates on couples in love.
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As she grapples with the diagnosis, she fixates on a student named Christopher Dunn, who boasts in class that he will one day write as well as Dostoyevsky.
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There is a "rage industrial complex" that fixates on the latest racial flashpoint: an outrageous video, remark or image that's passed around social media like a viral grenade.
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As the final shot fixates on a raging fire reminiscent of a Ku Klux Klan ritual, we hear the sound of barking police dogs echo in the distance.
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The market fixates on the median because that's a summary statistic, but all that is is an expectation at that particular moment in time based on the available information.
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Roth), who fixates on a mysterious film star (Rebecca Hall), always has footage at the ready — on VHS, of course, because streaming's antiseptic ease does not suit nostalgic fetishism.
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Double lives, unfortunately, tend not to supplement, but supplant — and as Maria fixates upon the poet and the alternate path he represents, her putatively harmonious life begins to unravel.
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Instead it fixates on their everyday routines — and not just their exercise, practice, and diet regimens, but also their time with their families and friends, or simply going about mundane errands.
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The camera fixates on them — until the pretty thing turns her head to face us head-on, her unwavering gaze of defiance, sadness, or fear somehow implicating the audience in her distress.
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Pnini's 2009 Fun Tom/ Masarik, for example, fixates on a seemingly ordinary public fountain whose frothy run-off unexpectedly gathers into a ringed wall of foam that resembles a children's snow fort.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — As President Trump fixates on former Vice President Joe Biden as his opponent in the 2020 general election, some moderate Democrats are more afraid of Bernie Sanders becoming the eventual nominee.
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As Emily Yoshida noted in her Vulture review, The Inventor fixates on Holmes's face, which appears in extreme close-ups not just in the movie but as a key part of its marketing.
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"I say it with sadness, but he is an umpire who scrutinizes me more and who fixates on me more," Nadal said of Ramos after a match at the French Open last year.
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The book fixates on a paradox: Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana, where she spends much of her time, is one of the most polluted regions of the country, ravaged by the oil and petrochemical industries.
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So much of the historical discussion of Watt's work fixates on the 80s, but 1995 marked a fundamental turning point that thrust this modest grunge forefather into the forefront of the proverbial rock pantheon.
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Tate Britain's retrospective of Nash's career, the artist's second (the first was at Tate Liverpool in 2003), fixates largely on the blurry distinction between Nash's preoccupation with international surrealism and his penchant for patriotism.
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"Kekszakallu" eventually fixates on an almost-protagonist (Laila Maltz), who seems uninterested in work and unsure of what to study, and who somehow manages to have a car accident in a mostly empty lot.
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In the Limping Man's case, the woman he fixates on gets nosebleeds frequently — so he decides to join her in that malady by continually bashing his head against things to make his nose bleed.
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It's light and ethereal enough to flutter inconsequentially around your psyche while you drag your fingers across the keyboard, yet fixates on enough of a beat to give you drive and keep you on track.
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Don't get me wrong, you can't separate the horrors of Nazi ideology from the man behind it, but World War II media, especially games, often fixates on Hitler because he's become an easy, cartoonish target.
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Wonderschool, a startup that&aposs most easily described as Airbnb for childcare, has laid off about 25% of its workforce as it fixates on increasing revenue growth, according to several employees who were let go.
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This might explain why so many tech luminaries are scared of a runaway AI scenario, in which a super intelligent machine fixates on a single task (like building paper clips) and accidentally destroys humanity in the process.
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While the market fixates on U.S. production, investors are also monitoring whether producing countries have been complying with their 2016 deal to cut output around 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) by the middle of the year.
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Perhaps where the New Testament's Lazarus story fixates on a body freed from the confines of death, Bowie's take, on stage and in song, inverts properties, freeing the spirit from the shackles of its mortal tether instead.
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Without careful consideration and inclusive dialogue, the move to save ourselves from climate disaster could also fuel the rise of eco-fascism, a far-right ideology that fixates on potential fascist actions in the name of environmentalism.
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Why it matters: While economists agree that trade deficits aren't a good way to measure a trade relationship, they are the metric Trump fixates on, made campaign promises about and uses to evaluate relationships with other countries.
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But while Washington fixates over the partisan stakes of the funding drama, the real victims of the latest lurch into government dysfunction are powerless to influence their fates, and can only look on in rising panic and fear.
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Trump shows that level of commitment to some things — firing James Comey and pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, for example — but he fixates on individual trees he wants to chop down, rather than having a vision to raze forests.
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Aubrey Plaza plays a frighteningly unhinged mental patient who fixates on an Instagram star (Elizabeth Olsen) in this first-time feature from director Matt Spicer (who co-wrote with David Branson Smith) that is wild, terrifying, funny and yet totally plausible.
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Every four years, a giant swath of the American population fixates on a worldwide competition that fuses turgid nationalism with the hypnotic chaos of humans flinging themselves into the air and landing on tiny metal slivers atop a slick, glassy surface.
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It is telling, then, that although Gayatri is achingly clear in her letters about why she chose to flee, Myshkin fixates on an affair she once had rather than the many ways in which she declares herself an autonomous person.
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She fixates on the story of Charles Jackson, the alcoholic author of the best-selling 1944 novel "The Lost Weekend," who became sober, but developed writer's block, and was never able to publish the big book he planned to write about recovery.
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In fact, recent studies indicate that more targeted policing approaches, when coupled with social service programs and public health interventions in a way that fixates on the very few individuals at risk of violence, are much more effective for combating crime and murders.
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We watch as Gina fixates with rose-colored glasses on a new partner, this time a skeezy Parisian bartender, Jérôme (also played by Mr. Bonnard), whose acquiescence to a one-night stand in no way prepares him for the onslaught of Gina's obsession.
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Chris is also mourning the death of his fiancée, who was a victim of a car accident involving a drunk driver, and his grief for her causes him to spiral while he fixates on Smithereen as an easy target for his maladjustment.
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To tell the story of flight attendant Gina (Lindsay Burdge) as she fixates on a one-night stand in Paris, Williams draws inspiration from 1970s European art films and cinéma du look to weave tapestries of color that both beckon and repel viewers in following Gina's descent.
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While the world outside the DRC fixates on reports of Ebola, "a substantially more fatal measles epidemic is sweeping through the country," said Freya L. Jephcott, a co-author of the recent Ebola spillover study and former head of the Médecins Sans Frontières epidemiology team, told me.
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Diane takes the ferry there from her home in Lausanne, Switzerland, and eventually fixates on a coffee-colored Mercedes (the movie's title derives from the hue of the car) and the two people who drive around in it, a salon owner, Marlène, and her lover, Michel.
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While the bulk of this nascent industry fixates on the system of sensors, maps and AI necessary for vehicles to drive without a human behind the wheel, the founders of startup RideOS are directing their efforts to the day when fleets of self-driving cars hit the streets.
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The education profession has been a target of parodists forever, which is part of the problem here — whether it's the one who is too raunchy for the room (Kathryn Renée Thomas) or the one who fixates on single dads (Katie O'Brien), these teachers are caricatures that have been mined before.
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Endearing in his strange, inept way, but profoundly strange as he puts on different accents, fixates on random objects, and occasionally chews on words like he's about the launch into a classic stoner ramble about the arbitrariness of language, the relationship between object and meaning, and how weird he feels, you guys.
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Unlike most contemporary Westerns, which map contemporary anxieties onto the past, Sheridan fixates on present-day quasi-frontiers — places like rural Texas (Hell or High Water), Wyoming (Wind River), and now Montana, with narratives that engage the actual forces wreaking havoc on the so-called Western way of life: poverty, extraction industries, and sexual assault.
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Doubting the competence of the detectives, she fixates on a neighbor, a plumber named Keith Denton, who did some work for Rachel and was the last person known to have seen her alive, stalking him unabashedly until the police, finally, bring him in, even though it is Nora herself who suddenly and increasingly seems culpable.
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At a time when poverty and environmental ruin are ravaging the world, it requires a profound level of self-absorption for one of the richest men alive to donate $240 billion and control over one of the earth's most important companies to the nerd who fixates the most on the pet obsessions of his teenage years.
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The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola's wickedly women-centric take on Thomas Cullinan's 1961 Civil War novel, fixates on two borders: the line between the American South and the North (and the Union soldier who strays too far past the line), as well as the line between man and woman, and the sorts of behavior society dictates for each.
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The melodrama and vulnerability mingle with one another, and arguably, it's the secret sauce of Kingdom Hearts, a series whose attraction is, on the surface, the chance to visit interactive Disney worlds, but in reality, what makes it click (and drives the fandom) is how it relentlessly fixates on how things would be better if people talked to one another.
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But the dynamic here isn't nearly as precious: it's a one-way romance in which a boy who isn't entirely sure his crush object is human (or whether he sees her as a stand-in for his dead sister) fixates on a girl who's thinking more about her family's death than about the weird kid who keeps grilling her about whether Jews sleep hanging from ceilings, like bats.
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