Sentence examples similar to idee preconcette from inspiring English sources

Quelle idee!

Sex became her idee fixe.

The most expensive item would be that couch over there, for the Japanese firm Idee, at $8,000.

The last time Forbes ran, his campaign had the clear, if disquieting, logic of an idee fixe.

It suggests that our country is in the grip of an idee fixe, and has grown immune both to new experience and to new thought.

They write it on banners, mark it on their bodies and litter it through their conversations, a shibboleth that is both idee fixe and unattainable goal.

But the symphony's creation, said to have been inspired by a love obsession, led to a new idea in musical composition called idee fixe: a uniting, recurrent theme in all the work's movements.

He has an unreasonable idee fixe that Baudelaire's famous 1863 essay, "The Painter of Modern Life," provided Picasso with a program for his own painting, nearly half a century later.

That is to say I've written the variations each one to represent the mood of the 'party'…it's a quaint idee & the result is amusing to those behind the scenes & won't affect the hearer who 'nose nuffin.' The Variations have amused me because I've labelled 'em with the nicknames of my particular friends you [Jaeger] are Nimrod.

At intervals the lively young man uttered such appropriate & idiomatic phrases as "Mille tonnerres!", "Quelle idee!", "Sacre bleu!", "Bien entendu!", and "La mauvaise chance!", & it wasn't until he threw out a "C'est formidable, ca!" that she realized that every word he was saying had been learned at the knee of Hercule Poirot.

Such lives are only fleetingly legible, however, and impenetrability, or a fixation on surfaces and the unreadability of private lives, becomes an idee fixe for Nev Lister, whose name it is tempting to decode as "New Reader", "lister" being an arcane synonym for "reader".