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  • It is rather Quixotic of you.  (source)
    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)
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  • Walsh's career to that point had been as quixotic as his view of the football offense.†  (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)
  • This was not a good time to be asking banks for money for what they deemed a project of quixotic dimensions.†  (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)
  • But in one sense, Hillary's path was far easier than Mortenson's quixotic quest.†  (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)
  • As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • In other words, a lot of the audience would view what Socios was doing in Carabayllo as quixotic, even heretical.†  (source)
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