firmly-anchored

Updated: July 10, 2025

She walked and walked till her legs flagged under her; then she dropped stupidly into the chair where Amherst had sat.... All her world had crumbled about her. It was as if some law of mental gravity had been mysteriously suspended, and every firmly-anchored conviction, every accepted process of reasoning, spun disconnectedly through space.

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree