fixed idea
Example Sentences
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“I don’t usually have a fixed idea of what I want to do and don’t know how the painting will turn out. Countless ideas come into my head,” Kusama once told the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
I was interested in having an audience that has a fixed idea of these women’s racial identity.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2021
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
