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

But “love of my life” is a fixed idea, and people are fluid, updating themselves over time.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

“This is my attempt to make sense of the period … weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness … about the shallowness of sanity.”

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2018

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