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Example sentences for "idee fixe"

  • But the thing is becoming an idee fixe in your mind, upon my word it is.

  • Oh, that's an idee fixe of yours," he said, testily.

  • When he met Makar, in the afternoon, he said: "People are being strangled right and left and here you are bent on that idee fixe of yours.

  • If my idee fixe had been realised a year ago these men would now be free.

  • A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an 'idee fixe' and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.

  • There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idee fixe,' which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way.

  • His love for her, and his confidence in her were so unbounded that he regarded his torturing suspicion as an idee fixe.

  • Now watch him catch big idee fixe," and she placed herself before him.

  • The last resolution I had come to before he entered the room was on no account to tell him anything, and this resolution had now become an idee fixe.

  • You were simply under the domination of an idee fixe.

  • Frau von Leskjewitsch; "and an idee fixe is a disease; while it lasts it is well to be patient with it, but when it is over one ought to thank God and get rid of the traces of it as quickly as possible.

  • As if the passion of love were ever anything save an idee fixe of the heart!

  • I really don't think it's an idee fixe," Cosimo returned, after further examination of it.

  • An idee fixe isn't an idee at all; it's a Law that in course of time thoughts become petrified.

  • I only ask you to ask yourself whether that isn't an idee fixe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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