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quixotic
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    ...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)
    quixotic = impractical due to excessive idealism
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    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)
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    As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic.†  (source)
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    "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)
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    This was not a good time to be asking banks for money for what they deemed a project of quixotic dimensions.†  (source)
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    He saw a future of quixotic attempts to inculcate his views in the boy, views opposed in every way to the mother's.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    I realized that I had not been objective in my quixotic fight to save the clubs.†  (source)
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    '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)
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    But in one sense, Hillary's path was far easier than Mortenson's quixotic quest.†  (source)
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    Walsh's career to that point had been as quixotic as his view of the football offense.†  (source)
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