idée fixe
Example Sentences
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This is perhaps why their partnership remains an idee fixe so many decades later.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2021
What was at first necessity, a free show, became an idee fixe to Papp, and he became convinced that his theater should be as accessible as books in the library.
From Time Magazine Archive
Revenge is sweet, bitter, salty and sour in Francois Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idee fixe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both the melodic image and its model pursue him incessantly like a double idee fixe.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Darrell thus put into Lady Adela's head, he remained there, and became an /idee fixe/.
From What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
