How To Use Quixotic In A Sentence
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Some critics have called Jones’ quests “quixotic”—but speaking to Jones, one gets the impression he takes certain issues to heart and refuses to let them go, quixotism be damned.
Project On Government Oversight: Osprey Odyssey: Rep. Jones' Ten-Year Quest to Clear the Names of Two Marine Corps Pilots
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It is also bolstered by fine literary criticism that is effortlessly introduced into the narrative of a quixotic life.
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Usually, a robust defender of reason and science -- and vociferous critic of untested truth-claims -- Shermer has drawn the ire of colleagues and admirers alike with his quixotic missive of mollification to moderates of religion.
Renowned Skeptic Michael Shermer: Deist or Just Disingenuous?
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I applaude you I think you are doinga marvellous job quixotic replied to Sam
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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As quixotic ventures go, the symphony has turned out well.
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The Singapore-born Tan, better known as a fortepianist, brought an entirely new, quixotic beauty to bear.
Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review
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Poincare has certainly no interest in currying the favor of these quixotic upholders of a forlorn hope.
The Case for France
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as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood
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She clung to the poor comfort that something must have passed at the interview so kindly sought by George to set the quixotical young farmer against him.
The Elect Lady
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This is a vast, exciting, and perhaps quixotic project.
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He developed prototypes for mass-produceable goods, and worked on the quixotic Letatlin, a design for an ornithopter.
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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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The finding of his mare – J. the Third, as he laughingly dubbed her – decided the point; he forthwith took on himself the role of quixotic highwayman, roaming his beloved South Country, happier than he had been since he first left England; bit by bit regaining his youth and spirits, which last, not all the trouble he had been through had succeeded in extinguishing ....
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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This is a vast, exciting, and perhaps quixotic project.
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Pretentious Pecksniffian Cruft
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
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And yet, each season, another hundred people reach New York by the train, or the bus or the plane, bringing their fresh faces, strong voices and quixotic aspirations to the Mecca of musical theater.
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If you guys want to be quixotic, feel free — but puh-leeze, do the math.
Matthew Yglesias » Trapped in the Senate
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Maybe those laboring to regenerate and vivify landscapes and to thicken the human/nature drama are quixotic deer-like souls.
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Political instability means economic uncertainty, and popular aspirations for a growing economy and a stable, professional government seem increasingly quixotic.
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The pioneers of wind energy are an iconoclastic lot, tilting, if you will, at the windmills of conventional energy wisdom and quixotically persisting in the face of difference and opposition.
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I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld -- pulled from some of Rummy's more quixotic press conferences and poeticized by Slate writer Hart Seely -- to music.
John Lundberg: Turning Poetry Into Music
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To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.
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These players personify strength, resilience, and a certain kind of footballing integrity in sufficient quantity to overcome individual defects, such as Robson's drinking or Cantona's quixotic nature.
Arsène Wenger's real blind spot is the Arsenal captaincy | Richard Williams
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Devoted IsThatLegal readers may recall my quixotic efforts to use the Freedom of Information Act to learn about the potential involvement of DOJ's and other branches 'lawyer's roles in approving of interrogation tactics that amount to torture.
IsThatLegal?
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The truth is slippery, and plumbing the past to catch hold of it is as quixotic a quest as the search for the perfect bottle of wine, but it is a noble and necessary one.
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If this doesn't seem quixotic enough in today's gruesome circumstances, he also has to confront religious parties on the city council and an inept central government that won't give him a serious budget.
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His quixotic charges at youth unemployment, school meals and obesity have all been memorable and wholly admirable.
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We like hype, and we also, paradoxically, like to think “our” particular battle is Quixotic and foredoomed, because the corporations are “so powerful”.
Does Obama hate open source?
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This absurd belief would not even deserve to be called quixotic if it had not inspired masterpieces of art and music and architecture as well as the most appalling atrocities and depredations.
Christopher Hitchens: Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?
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They sally forth, mock-heroic and quixotic, as if nothing was unusual or out of the ordinary, clueless that their sense of proportion is way out of whack.
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube
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Others existed only as working hypotheses, unrealized plans or quixotic fantasies.
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MattY’s quixotic notion that the Senate ought to be abolished is the sorta thing folks used to stand on soapboxes in public parks to talk about, sorta like Ron Paul insisting on the gold standard.
Matthew Yglesias » Trapped in the Senate
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Nor has her quixotic campaign in a bellwether seat yet ignited.
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I'm hoping - quixotically, I suppose - for the plan's defeat.
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Still, it also serves to accentuate the film's central point, that represented images often provide the basis of our hopes and dreams, no matter how quixotic those dreams may be.
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David Davis’ Quixotic decision to force a bye-election on the single issue of the authoritarian state being put in place, piece by piece, by the Castroist tendency in British politics falls like a grenade in our midst.
Liberty: There is No Finer Cause
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The building in the flesh is so run-down that the desire to restore it seems both heroic and quixotic: an act justified only by perfect faith.
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She implies that eliminative materialism is not a program for reforming the taxa of psychologists and neurologists, but some kind of quixotic campaign against poetry in ordinary language.
Perils of pop philosophy
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The rest of you can just scream impotently behind the wheel; I get to write impotently and show the younger people what the word "quixotic" means.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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(My quixotical quest is described here; background on the MDL panel, funded by your tax dollars, is here.)
His Honor
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My Best Friend shows [Patrice] Leconte's fondness for personalities wrapped up in quixotic conflicts, but the premise is too incredulous even by his own standards," writes Eric Kohn.
GreenCine Daily: Wrapping Tribeca.
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The human thirst for competition takes many quixotic forms - baccarat, sumo, the caber toss, quoits.
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Ian Katz called the exercise ‘a quixotic idea dreamed up last month in a north London pub’ - journalese for ‘We wuz drunk.’
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I am now a well behaved individual, I have cut down on my quixotic outings, though the prospect of getting fatally maimed on one of those windmills is always enticing.
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Napoleon was still tinkering with his quixotical Empire in Mexico.
Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World
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It is an old-fashioned project, and a quixotic one, but deeply moving in its hope that Wyclif's Bible and Burns's songs form an inheritance we would all want, if only we knew about it.
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One could argue that America's overwhelming nuclear deterrence, like Britain's navy in the 19th century, has been a source of global stability more than otherwise—and that Reagan's dream of missile defense which Mr. Taubman labels "quixotic" may turn out to be the real solution to preventing a rogue nuclear attack from one of the world's many despotic regimes.
Fearsome Peacekeepers
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But others have been crude hit-and-run attacks and in some cases even Quixotic charges by lightly armed men on armored vehicles.
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As quixotic ventures go, the symphony has turned out well.
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It was unprecedented, quixotic and admirable.
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Crossheads, or subheads as he calls them, aren't stuck into stories quixotically, nor are they really designed to be read as important parts of the copy.
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Now that he wants to rejoin society no goal seems more quixotic and hopeless.
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This quixotic politician became obsessed with the plight of Afghanistan, the Afghan people, and with taking the fight to the Soviets directly.
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That sounds quixotically noble, this stand for the ‘inviolability of marriage.’
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
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The past week, though, has been one of the rockiest and most quixotic of his 14-month political career.
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Nor has her quixotic campaign in a bellwether seat yet ignited.
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Supporters put together signs for Jones' campaign in 1994, an effort Jones describes as "quixotic.
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This is a vast, exciting and some say quixotic project.
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Adams is deeply interested in the broader musical dimensions of culture, how pop music and classical music coexist and sometimes cross-fertilize, how composers need audience feedback, how musical generations succeed one another and how some artists will fight quixotic battles to their dying day, holding true to avant-garde orthodoxy no matter how isolating it is.
A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else
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He has always lived his life by a hopelessly quixotic code of honour.
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The reasons for this condition of the collective conciousness is infinately interesting, however, and should be debated in order to rescue authentic democracy from the simulacra of democratic norms that make changing the status quo seem a quixotic endeavor.
La Profesora Abstraida
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She responded with a quixotic courage that eventually infected me; during her two-year illness, I'd grown less pessimistic both about her prognosis and about life itself.
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The show has always grooved in the cerebral and quixotic, which often translates to slow.
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So while the challenge facing the peace movement in south Asia is daunting, it is by no means impossibly quixotic.
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In these papers, where he was largely concerned with general philosophical problems of time and space, he adopted a quixotic standpoint in his attempt to refute the theory as being logically untenable.
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My quixotical quest is described here; background on the MDL panel, funded by your tax dollars, is here.
His Honor
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Now, granted, gNAW will get the rights to do a Teennuts manga when Hell freezes over (I mean the other parts, not Cocytus), so if your reaction matches that of quixoticals, you can just chillax cuz it ain't gonna happen anyway.
C'mon, Tell Me This Isn't Awesome
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I suddenly imagine myself dropping words like "quixotic" and "evzone" into e-mails and blogs just to up my score.
Crave: The gadget blog
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Now that he wants to rejoin society no goal seems more quixotic and hopeless.
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It is also bolstered by fine literary criticism that is effortlessly introduced into the narrative of a quixotic life.
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So this exercise in tilting at windmills can't even be described as quixotic, since that would imply some expectation of success, however delusional.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
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He can't help but look around, distracted by the vendors selling cooking oil and the mashed vegetable stew called "legume," the rum stands and the ubiquitous lottery shops where impoverished Haitians place tiny quixotic bets.
In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets
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From Quixote we derived the word quixotic, meaning extravagantly chivalrous and romantically idealistic.
Impossible Dream
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Nor has her quixotic campaign in a bellwether seat yet ignited.
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sent to jail for two years, he has quixotically refused to clear himself by betraying his colleagues
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In his swashbuckling sensibility, Jomon "eccentrics" pursuing "mysterious, quixotic dreams" made a "mad dash" across the Pacific in dugout canoes.
Books: Ice Age Swashbucklers?
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Wild eclecticism has been the hallmark of Boyd's 30-year career as record producer, failed film mogul and quixotic entrepreneur.
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We should reject fiery rhetoric and quixotic ambitions and demand from our public officials ‘just the facts.’
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They believe - perhaps quixotically, under some owners - that they work for the entire community, not just the stockholders.
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Quixotic mazes made with podacarpus hedges or scarlet red bean vines can be done with a little imagination.
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Nor has her quixotic campaign in a bellwether seat yet ignited.
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With the real-time media web a near-certain occurrence within 5 years or so, the Quixotic attempts of TimeWarner & others will only hasten their demise.
Congressman: Metered Broadband Kills Jobs & May Violate 1st Amendment
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
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Miller is a first-rate intellectual but an unreliably quirky, quixotically overcerebral, hit-or-miss director.
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I think there would be a certain amount of consensus about that, even amongst the most quixotic and naturally amorous of us.
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This is the man whom folklorists and historians - by unimaginable mental and moral gymnastics - have endowed with qualities of quixotic chivalry, and set up as a national hero.
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This is a vast, exciting and some say quixotic project.
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He was presented as the quixotic radical, the gregarious populist, the lovable dissenter, the rare honest liberal, the minority of one.
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Seth has a sense of honor which I call quixotic, and one that might reasonably shame the impecunious fortune-hunters I've met since I have lived in England.
The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies
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My superior self was on a quixotic errand!
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His quixotic charges at youth unemployment, school meals and obesity have all been memorable and wholly admirable.
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This is a vast, exciting, and perhaps quixotic project.
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A considerable amount of the matrimonial ideas of young women are purely the result of their education, and of the atmosphere in which they have been brought up; and, by giving a new direction to their early training, it might not be altogether so quixotical to believe that we should alter all that is the result of the training.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
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His quixotic, idealist appeal for justice contrasts sharply with the rest of the exhibition, in which justice does not seem to be expected.
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This more recent house on the Izu Peninsula marks a temporary break with mining the fertile seams of Toyko's quixotic urban geology.
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Sir Henry Lee, however, appears to have devoted his life to these chivalrous pageantries rather from a quixotical imagination than with any serious views of ambition or interest.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth