He was not listening; his attention was concentrated on some fixedidea.
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His uncle was engaged in the unaware execution of some fixedidea.
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The sky was deep and brilliant, a fixedidea beyond human doubt.
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Days went by, and between them that fixedidea grew in intensity.
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He threw the world and himself as nourishment to this fixedidea.
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His future happiness must depend on his fixedbelief in her purity and truth.
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If, however, that be your fixedbelief, you may find it often severely tested.
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But underneath his calmness there was an unrest, hungering for repose,-therepose of a fixedbelief.
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But this was a fixedbelief of Molly's.
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But no experience could alter Napoleon's fixedbelief in the fatuity of all warfare except his own.
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Half irritably he dismissed the intrusivethought.
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I get trapped inside an intrusivethought.
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And then even Grave stopped taking bids and rubbed hard at her forehead, as though bothered by some intrusivethought.
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A behavioural measure of intrusivethought required participants to control their attention during two focus periods separated by a 5min period of self-referential worry.
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Results: In experiment 1 replacing personal intrusivethoughts took longer than replacing neutral thoughts.
Ús de idée fixe en anglès
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It was his fixed idea-uneideefixe, as he himself said.
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He never doubted Claridge Pasha's return; it was une ideefixe.
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The ideefixe of the British public, fishermen, M.P.
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At twenty-five she had an ideefixe.
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It suggests that our country is in the grip of an ideefixe, and has grown immune both to new experience and to new thought.
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Dr. Gonzales, who was really a fine chemist before he went dotty, got the ideefixe that all human ills were due to improper food.
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Nothing is such a bore as to travel with people who are pervaded by one idea, and my ' ideefixe' is my picture-mygreat Dominican.