fixed idea

Example Sentences

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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

But “love of my life” is a fixed idea, and people are fluid, updating themselves over time.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

"Picasso had sketches he didn't sell and weren't as popular as other things. Every artist has an audience for different things they do, so there's no fixed idea of what success is."

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2018

People who have been extremely successful have often been reinforced with the fixed idea that they are good and they are special.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016

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