Idee-___ (obsession)

Usage examples of fixe.

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There may be some psychological explanation for this idee fixe, as they call it, but I don't think so.

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.

Using, perhaps, her own idee fixe of how the world was supposed to be.

Harvey expended a great deal of energy in trying to prove himself, and I'm quite sure this whole idee fixe about Marlowe and Shakespeare was part of that&quot.

His physicians, equally convinced of the absurdity of this idee fixe, diagnosed him as paranoid and confined him to an upper story of Walter Reed Army Hospital, from which he plunged to his death, partly because of inadequate supervision by hospital personnel, overly deferential to one of his exalted rank.

We tried a prix fixe menu, a Sunday night buffet, we advertised, we hired a publicist.

Idee fixe, the instructor, a prissy little man with a toothbrush mustache, had called it.