idée fixe
Example Sentences
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An idée fixe ever since has been that the country “needs” four national wireless carriers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2018
Mr. Trump stayed rather quiet on the topic of late-night shows, even as he became their idée fixe.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
And if any one foodstuff serves as his leitmotif and idée fixe, it’s soup.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
We are in the presence of a bore: one of those men whose minds have battened on an idée fixe and mislaid their sense of balance in the process.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
To Amherst, so long thwarted in his chosen work, the subject of Westmore was becoming an idée fixe; and it was natural that Hanaford should class him as a man of one topic.
From The Fruit of the Tree by Alonzo Kimball
