Ejemplos de uso de idée
1. Hence, "soap opera". At the period he was writing Bleak House, sanitary reform – soap for the nation – was an obsession with Dickens – his idée fixe, his hobbyhorse, his mania, one of the few topics on which he could be boring.
2. Here at the Diary, we had always believed that if there was one spot on this benighted isle that defined what Charles de Gaulle would surely have called une certaine idée de l‘Angleterre, one community that exemplified the very notion of British gentility, one town that, above all others, would resist this nation‘s headlong rush towards vulgarity, binge drinking and over–skimpy underwear, it was Royal Tunbridge Wells.
3. By using torture, by the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, by employing "extraordinary renditions" of suspects to countries where they could be tortured, by insisting on going it almost alone in Iraq, by telling the international community to shove it, by declaring a war for an idée fixe –– this fierce obsession with Hussein goes back a long way –– the United States has made itself reviled in much of the world.