fixed idea in a sentence
Examples
- The journalist Pierrick Eberhard described the garden as a " kitsch masterpiece " which reflects " the extraordinary expertise in the service of the fixed idea of work ".
- The West has no fixed ideas, and enmities between Milosevic and Kosovo's majority Albanians run too deep for them to concoct a solution of their own that will stick.
- There have been many such rigorously enforced post-9 / 11 codes _ or, as Joan Didion labels them in the current New York Review of Books, " fixed ideas ."
- My mother taught her students never to weave the same articles that can be machine made . It's important to rid the mind of all preconceptions or fixed ideas about clothing.
- Being purged from the Army together with several other soldiers, Colonel Jefferson Cardim had a fixed idea : give a military response to the new government before the coup could complete one year.
- I have long been bothered by what seems to be a fixed idea in the American mind : When a nation or state holds reasonably honest elections it becomes ipso facto free and democratic.
- Art was integral to her vision of community, disrupting fixed ideas and stimulating the diversity and interaction on which a healthy society depends, based on a continual rewriting of cultural identities through variation and interculturalism.
- It does not follow anything of his book, if the author is a man of great intelligence, well educated, but has no fixed idea, who is carried away by the enthusiasm of a young rhetorician.
- This encounter could be seen as a typical collision of the classically trained musician, who depends on fixed ideas of standard Western notation, and the jazz musician, whose art is predicated on pliability and invention.
- Conversely, Democrats paint the world as a complex place that defies fixed ideas and simple solutions, and suggest that those who downplay the importance of nuance do so because they aren't intellectually equipped to process it.