Ejemplos de uso de idée fixe
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. 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.