We might indeed speak--perhaps with some intelligible meaning--of the tendency of evolution becoming conscious in man, and then working towards its own realisation as a fixed idea.
The name "fixed idea" is misleading if it be taken to imply that persistency and tendency to action are properties belonging to a certain class of ideas only.
With Arndt hatred of everything French became a fixed idea.
During the long hours of firing, the murderous instinct has become aroused, and the wish to kill, changed into a fixed idea, spreads afar among the crowd which has hitherto remained inactive.
Through steadily brooding over a purely speculative preference this has become a fixed idea, and is becoming a murderous one.
In their brain, overflowing with emotions and enthusiasm, there is no room but for one intense, absorbing, fixed idea.
I had no less an undertaking in my mind than that of attacking Serapion's fixed idea at its very roots.
You maintain that it is a case of Fixed Idea that I believe myself to be Serapion the martyr--and I am quite aware that many persons hold the same opinion, or pretend that they do.
I came to the fact that to confound oneself with some historical character was a frequent form of Fixed Idea.
It is the same with the fourth proposition, that without the idea of extension, we can have no fixed idea of any thing corporeal, no fixed rule in relation to phenomena, but are like blind men.
The number is a fixed idea, but the kind is purely relative.
We can form no fixed idea of corporeal objects, nor make any observation on the sensible world, unless we are guided by the rule of extension.
The desire to see Vakoula mounted, and thus to wipe out the bad impression left by The Oprichnik, became almost a fixed idea, and led him to a course of action which in calmer moments would have seemed to him reprehensible.
I lay stress upon this error of Tchaikovsky's, because, becoming more and more of a fixed idea, it finally led the composer to take an insane step which almost proved his undoing.
The thought of a possible injury develops and extends until it is an object of constant preoccupation and becomes a fixed idea.
Should a fixed idea entail a motor reaction, it may give rise to a tic as ineradicable as the idea itself, and a series of fixed ideas may be accompanied by a succession of corresponding tics.
When a murderer kills he has a fixed idea; it is to steal.
It ate into my mind like a fixed idea, just as cancers must eat into the flesh.
He gazed at the two women with a fixed idea in his mind, a morbid, self-contradictory idea: "Which is the real one?
Henriette's fixed idea, and she is astonished that the thought of receiving "le high-life" in his little apartment on the fifth floor makes their neighbour laugh.
One passes by, almost one would laugh, but one is seized with pity before the unconsciousness of those unhappy men possessed by a fixed idea, blind whom the dream leads, drawn along by an invisible leash.
A fixed idea is one which morbidly stays in the mind and cannot be changed by reason.
Now both these forms of sorcery are really hypnotizing by action on belief, and Forethought aided by the sleep process has precisely the same result--it establishes a fixed idea in the mind, or a haunting presence.
In this, as in all such cases, it was not so much conviction or reason which influenced the sufferer as the mere effect of Attention often awakened till it had become what is known as a fixed idea.
I was the slave of a fixed idea, that the validity not the legality, of the Monroe Doctrine was somewhat dependent on our acquiring by fair bargains all the territory we needed to interpret it!
The buying of islands was a fixed idea with me, and I liked to talk about it.
Behind this exclamation, which recurs automatically, we faintly discern a complete repeating-machine set going by a fixed idea.
Now, there is a sane state of the mind that resembles madness in every respect, in which we find the same associations of ideas as we do in lunacy, the same peculiar logic as in a fixed idea.
Might not certain vices have the same relation to character that the rigidity of a fixed idea has to intellect?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fixed idea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
