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

"What I wish to show Mr. Norman," says Mr. G. K. Chesterton in The New Witness, "is that the fantastic pursuit of the idée fixe ... leads to a reductio ad absurdum."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir