fixed idea

What could words do to her, for good or evil in the face of her fixed idea?

But by this time it was a fixed idea with me, and I was very determined about it.

Days went by, and between them that fixed idea grew in intensity.

It had become his fixed idea—the bar that closed up his life.

She, for her part, clung to her fixed idea, and before long she consulted Boutan.

They had the fixed idea that they wanted to give one another up.

It was perhaps a fixed idea with him that he would win you, and others misread it.

They seldom seem to have a fixed idea of what they really want.

One of its principal signs was the fixed idea as to Midsummer Day.

We must judge the fixed idea not in itself but by its effects.