idée fixe
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idées fixes
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With “The Height of the Storm,” which opened on Tuesday at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, his idée fixe about unfixed consciousness gets its fullest and least rewarding workout.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
An idée fixe ever since has been that the country “needs” four national wireless carriers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2018
And if any one foodstuff serves as his leitmotif and idée fixe, it’s soup.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
We are in the presence of a bore: one of those men whose minds have battened on an idée fixe and mislaid their sense of balance in the process.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
He amuses himself in putting maps together, and cutting out paper, and packing up his desk to go to Florence, which is the idée fixe just now.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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