fixed idea
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“I don’t usually have a fixed idea of what I want to do and don’t know how the painting will turn out. Countless ideas come into my head,” Kusama once told the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
Over the course of her career, her albums — including those with the trio Pistol Annies — have become looser, more curious, less married to a fixed idea of the genre.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2019
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
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