An idea that preoccupies an individual and that he is unwilling to give up despite evidence to the contrary.
1 He was not listening; his attention was concentrated on some fixed idea .
2 His uncle was engaged in the unaware execution of some fixed idea .
3 The sky was deep and brilliant, a fixed idea beyond human doubt.
4 Days went by, and between them that fixed idea grew in intensity.
5 He threw the world and himself as nourishment to this fixed idea .
6 Maniac or martyr, he is under the spell of a fixed idea .
7 From that day it became my fixed idea to break with her.
8 It had become his fixed idea - the bar that closed up his life.
9 She could not break away from the fixed idea of love.... Love!
10 No fixed idea of family could or would be valid for all times.
11 When a murderer kills he has a fixed idea ; it is to steal.
12 But there is a fixed idea which makes the hero and the martyr.
13 One of its principal signs was the fixed idea as to Midsummer Day.
14 It's a fixed idea ; he has got it on the brain.
15 They dream of landed property; it is their fixed idea , their fruitful monomania.
16 To them the possession of the soil was a fixed idea .
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