idées fixes
- plural of idée fixe.
Example Sentences
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Delusions, psychosis, idées fixes, persecution complex, whatever: To some extent it has always been there.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
The story is told clearly enough – no small achievement in this opera – and the production has no distracting idées fixes, though it does keep one subversive surprise until just before the final curtain.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013
“Lack of facts,” Mr. Englund observes, “has been padded out with guesses, suppositions, hopes, fears, idées fixes, conspiracy theories, dreams, nightmares and rumors.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2011
