fixed idea

Or perhaps it is a fixed idea in an absurdly shifting world.

"The regional government has a fixed idea that Catalonia should become a sovereign nation," she said.

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

The engineer was not a man who would allow himself to be diverted from his fixed idea.

The amazing thing here is, he didn't seem to have any fixed ideas about what he wanted to do with his first term.

Every psychosis is the development of a single fixed idea.

What could words do to her, for good or evil in the face of her fixed idea?

It is a sense that seems rooted in the personal and particular, rather than in any fixed idea of justice.

There seemed to be a widespread and fixed idea about this.

We're still talking to clubs routinely, and we don't have any fixed idea against a trade.