The idée fixe returns in the middle of the movement.

His other idée fixe was, however, a little more rational.

To the extent that she has an idée fixe, it's time and its passing.

The idée fixe is heard in its full form when the music goes into the fast section.

Since he was a child he had an idée fixe.

This erroneous idea has become an idée fixe with her.

Iraq was a Bush administration idée fixe before there was a 9/11.

She changes into a musical theme (the idée fixe) which he just cannot forget.

The tune heard on the violins is already nearly like the idée fixe.

Idée fixe is an alternate term for an overvalued idea.

It is called an idée fixe (French for "fixed idea").

It's just that she has this idée fixe that my agent is the man for me.

Twice the waltz is interrupted by the idée fixe.

Today, the term idée fixe does not denote a specific disorder in psychology.

More formal statements of the idée fixe twice interrupt the waltz.

I asked about critics who say he's peddling an idée fixe that ignores the critical role of culture in development.

That is not just a political idée fixe , or an excuse for steering people in a certain direction.

Berlioz was more interested in the idée fixe which keeps haunting the young artist all the way through.

This idée fixe of President Bush is dangerously misguided.

Nonetheless, idée fixe is used still as a descriptive term, and appears in dictionaries of psychology.

"It was his idée fixe, the head!"

"You have an idée fixe about art déco.

They had a vaporised block that led them to an idée fixe about test-tube fusion being real.

At that time, idée fixe was discussed as a form of neurosis or monomania.:

The return of the idée fixe as a "vulgar dance tune" is depicted by the C clarinet.