quixoticin a sentence
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It was a quixotic law that was supposed to end excessive influence of special interests in government.
quixotic = impractical due to excessive idealism
- ...his first step as police chief was as seemingly quixotic as Gunn's. With felonies — serious crimes — on the subway system at an all-time high, Bratton decided to crack down on farebeating. Why? Because he believed that, like graffiti, farebeating could be a signal, a small expression of disorder that invited much more serious crimes. (source)
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The man made a sweeping, quixotic bow, nearly falling from the horse.
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quixotic = impractical
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It is rather Quixotic of you.
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quixotic = impractical due to excessive romanticism, idealism, and/or an overactive imagination
- No matter how naïve or wild-eyed his grandfather might have sounded to Brooks, Edgar thought John Sawtelle's vision might not have been so quixotic.† (source)
- Despite having announced that he would have no more time for appointments that evening, when the Count asked this question, he was in Anna Urbanova's bed.... "I know there is something quixotic in dreaming of the Former," he continued, "but when all is said and done, if the Former is even a remote possibility, then how can one submit to the likelihood of the Latter?† (source)
- By the time he finished his quixotic track career, Michael Oher would break the West Tennessee sectional record in the discus, and threaten it in the shot put.† (source)
- He saw a future of quixotic attempts to inculcate his views in the boy, views opposed in every way to the mother's.† (source)
- In other words, a lot of the audience would view what Socios was doing in Carabayllo as quixotic, even heretical.† (source)
- At first light, December 15, Adams, his sons, Francis Dana, John Thaxter, servants, Spanish guides and muleteers, and two additional Americans who had been aboard the Sensible, set off mounted on scrawny mules and looking, as John Thaxter noted, very like a scene from Don Quixote, and quixotic the whole undertaking turned out to be.† (source)
- There was barely enough space in the floor of my tiny room for someone as tall as Wesley to stretch out on his stomach, but he managed, and I sat across from him, the board between us as we spelled out words like quixotic and hegemony.† (source)
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- It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.† (source)
- But in one sense, Hillary's path was far easier than Mortenson's quixotic quest.† (source)
- As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic.† (source)
- This was not a good time to be asking banks for money for what they deemed a project of quixotic dimensions.† (source)
- Quickly then she outlined to Sophie her scheme about Lebensborn, trying to make her see that the plan—however quixotic it might appear—was perhaps the only way of assuring Jan's deliverance from the camp.† (source)
- as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood
- And you and your sister were head and ears deep in some Quixotic scheme. (source)
- Therefore all public ends look vague and quixotic beside private ones. (source)
- Walsh's career to that point had been as quixotic as his view of the football offense.† (source)
- I realized that I had not been objective in my quixotic fight to save the clubs.† (source)
- But it is always hopeless and quixotic too.† (source)
- And you and your sister were head and ears deep in some Quixotic scheme.† (source)
- You must not give up all that for a quixotic life in a wilderness.† (source)
- The annals of this Ninth Crusade are yet to be written,—the tale of a mission that seemed to our age far more quixotic than the quest of St. Louis seemed to his.† (source)
- Several years later, as I was about to go overseas as a soldier, I spent my last week-end pass on a somewhat quixotic journey to Clyde, Ohio, the town upon which Winesburg was partly modeled.† (source)
- Well, my quixotic one, you shall tell me anything—say, as soon as we are settled in our lodging; not now.† (source)
- 'Very good,' replied Mr. Brownlow, smiling; 'but no doubt they will bring that about for themselves in the fulness of time, and if we step in to forestall them, it seems to me that we shall be performing a very Quixotic act, in direct opposition to our own interest—or at least to Oliver's, which is the same thing.'† (source)
- "Well, you are always heroic and transcendental," said Mr. Shelby, "but I think you had better think before you undertake such a piece of Quixotism."† (source)
- Lydgate did not stay to think that she was Quixotic: he gave himself up, for the first time in his life, to the exquisite sense of leaning entirely on a generous sympathy, without any check of proud reserve.† (source)
- She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind—a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me—I am sure of it—an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it.† (source)
- I felt a certain diffidence about asking, but I really wanted to know what lay behind that quixotic gesture.† (source)
- It was quite on a par with the quixotic idea in certain quarters that in a hundred million years the coal seam of the sister island would be played out and if, as time went on, that turned out to be how the cat jumped all he could personally say on the matter was that as a host of contingencies, equally relevant to the issue, might occur ere then it was highly advisable in the interim to try to make the most of both countries even though poles apart.† (source)
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