idée fixe
Example Sentences
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Insistently downward melodic phrases appear to echo section’s title until they emerge as the idée fixe of the entire piece, doleful and reflecting a world in decline.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023
An idée fixe ever since has been that the country “needs” four national wireless carriers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2018
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
It was fanned by her coolness, and was in a fair way to become an idée fixe, for he was not material enough to live without some dream, some ideal, and Bertha found him amusing.
From Bird of Paradise by Leverson, Ada
