Sentence examples for Fixed idea from inspiring English sources

The composition is also notable for its expanded orchestration, grander than usual for the early 19th century, and for its innovative use of a recurring theme the so-called ideé fixe ("fixed idea" or "obsession")—throughout all movements.

Idée fixe, ( French: "fixed idea") in music and literature, a recurring theme or character trait that serves as the structural foundation of a work.

Similarly, in France, Hector Berlioz in his Symphonie fantastique (1830) transformed the theme representing the artist's beloved (the idée fixe, or fixed idea) so that it took different forms in each movement.

"I'm not interested in the fixed idea".

Were you working toward a fixed idea on these albums?

There's a fixed idea of what foreign journalists visiting Tehran can expect.

You can achieve this only when you achieve control over a fixed idea".

For me, art shouldn't be a fixed idea that I have before I start making it.

"There's a very fixed idea of what an apartment needs to be", she said.

At that time, he had no fixed idea of how he wanted to make a living.

Fixed ideas are unhelpful.