Don Quixote

NOUN
  1. the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical
  2. any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero)
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How To Use Don Quixote In A Sentence

  • Tension between Don Quixote andin their witty dialogue; comedy and tragedy coexist in the protagonist.
  • Or think about ninety percent of all the literary protagonists we find most memorable - Ahab, Heathcliff, Stavrogin, even all the way back to Don Quixote - every one of them is certifiable.
  • Kanmakan is the typical Arab Knight, gentle and valiant as Don Quixote Sabbáh is the Grazioso, a "Beduin" Sancho Panza. Arabian nights. English
  • The opposed sets of self-contained images interpenetrate one another; by the end of the book it is impossible to say that Don Quixote is mad, and impossible to say that the duke and the duchess are sane.
  • The faithful squire, who dubs Don Quixote the Knight of the Sorrowful Face, is a poor, uneducated farmer who's lured into squiredom by the idea that he will, by following his Master, one day become Governor of his very own island.
  • Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the one same man! you will readily comprehend what a cat-and-dog couple they made! what strife! what clapperclawing! Tartarin of Tarascon
  • Early in December, word buzzed around that "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" director Terry Gilliam was eying Robert Duvall to star in his next effort, the long, long-awaited "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Terry Gilliam Confirms Robert Duvall For ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,’ Nixes Johnny Depp » MTV Movies Blog
  • For the first time in fiction, in Don Quixote's absolute inwardness, we discover something like the self.
  • But in spite of this, Don Quixote did not leave off discharging a continuous rain of cuts, slashes, downstrokes, and backstrokes, and at length, in less than the space of two credos, he brought the whole show to the ground, with all its fittings and figures shivered and knocked to pieces, King Don Quixote
  • One thinks of his first book with its peerless interpretation of faith and culture in the cisatlantic lands of Don Quixote and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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