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Meanings of idée fixe in English
An idea that preoccupies an individual and that he is unwilling to give up despite evidence to the contrary.
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Examples for "fixed idea"
Examples for "fixed idea"
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He was not listening; his attention was concentrated on some fixed idea.
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His uncle was engaged in the unaware execution of some fixed idea.
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The sky was deep and brilliant, a fixed idea beyond human doubt.
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Days went by, and between them that fixed idea grew in intensity.
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He threw the world and himself as nourishment to this fixed idea.
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His future happiness must depend on his fixed belief in her purity and truth.
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If, however, that be your fixed belief, 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 fixed belief.
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But this was a fixed belief of Molly's.
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But no experience could alter Napoleon's fixed belief in the fatuity of all warfare except his own.
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Half irritably he dismissed the intrusive thought.
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I get trapped inside an intrusive thought.
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And then even Grave stopped taking bids and rubbed hard at her forehead, as though bothered by some intrusive thought.
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A behavioural measure of intrusive thought 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 intrusive thoughts took longer than replacing neutral thoughts.
Usage of idée fixe in English
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It was his fixed idea-uneidee fixe, as he himself said.
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He never doubted Claridge Pasha's return; it was une idee fixe.
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The idee fixe of the British public, fishermen, M.P.
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At twenty-five she had an idee fixe.
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It suggests that our country is in the grip of an idee fixe, 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 idee fixe 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 ' idee fixe' is my picture-mygreat Dominican.