idée fixe
Americannoun
noun
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This is perhaps why their partnership remains an idee fixe so many decades later.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2021
Revenge is sweet, bitter, salty and sour in Francois Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idee fixe.
From Time Magazine Archive
What was at first necessity, a free show, became an idee fixe to Papp, and he became convinced that his theater should be as accessible as books in the library.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both the melodic image and its model pursue him incessantly like a double idee fixe.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Dr. Gonzales, who was really a fine chemist before he went dotty, got the idee fixe that all human ills were due to improper food.
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
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