fixed idea
Example Sentences
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Vallejo also dedicated three summers to the caddie program, getting up early, enduring the heat and carrying heavy bags, always with a fixed idea in mind.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025
Getting a new view on someone I had such a fixed idea of who or want he was, and this is a way of understanding that.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023
I was interested in having an audience that has a fixed idea of these women’s racial identity.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2021
People who have been extremely successful have often been reinforced with the fixed idea that they are good and they are special.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016
R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.—Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
