Quixotic Sentence Examples | Use Quixotic in a sentence

1.it is tempting to call the project Quixotic, but the owners got there first: the airport was opened under the name "don quijote" in 2008.

2.in a Quixotic manner.

3.at worst his scruples must have been Quixotic, not malicious ( louis auchincloss)

4."Quixotic principle" in faulkner's novels

5.monroe once justified her Quixotic behaviour with the line:'it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.'in my view, she ended up being both.

6.two and a half years later, my beautiful, Quixotic son had grown into a devilish handful.

7.on the one hand, it can make the principles training much more pertinent and Quixotic. on the other hand, principles can continuously consummate themselves, sort through role cluster, manage role impact, complete role play in the complicated social milieu.

8.more thoughtful ones may stop to ponder the remarkable Quixotic drama of a single man who set out to overturn the mighty american imperium.

9.with just a few Quixotic tendencies between us, we, ian and geoff, rode from waterloo to vancouver together last summer.

10.and the fellowship's members do not view global use of esperanto as a Quixotic goal. the consensus among the world's scientists is that the world is likely to warm up over the next decades.

11.the belief in rationality may seem the most Quixotic of all, but many elements of the crisis were provoked not by irrational behaviour but by rational responses to perverse incentives.

12.it is something of a Quixotic mission but is nevertheless notable for at least two reasons.

13.mr murdoch is clearly enthusiastic about his latest, Quixotic newspaper war with the new york times.

14.london did the same when it designated the industrial wasteland around canary wharf as a financial hub back in the 1980s. what was ridiculed at the time as a Quixotic venture is now one of the world's key financial centers.

15.however, as the play ended with bows and applause there was a Quixotic plea for the audience to continue pursuing what is good.

16.as Quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood; a romantic disregard for money; a wild-eyed dream of a world state.

17.a truly Quixotic landscape is seen in salvador dal í' s 1946 painting the temptation of st. anthony ( top right), which depicts a metropolis set upon the backs of animals.

18.nearly two years time, due to the way, rugged, car repair, and not to go home for a period of road seem Quixotic .

19.Quixotic, i grant you, after a year in which the lights went out all across the global financial system.

20.these shifts make small, d.i.y. collectives like triple canopy appear more traditional than ever, if not just Quixotic a word derived from one of the first novels licensed to a publisher.

21.mr zuckerman recalls one Quixotic venture to help rewrite icelandic law, aiming to create a national safe-haven for wikileaks' work.

22.possibly the most Quixotic of these ventures involved wandering around in the midday sun within one degree of the equator enquiring where i could find a decent funeral.

23.that may sound a bit Quixotic, but assange and his associates appear the opposite of benighted.

24.and the fellowship's members do not view global use of esperanto as a Quixotic goal.

25.imagine become in such a man as he, perhaps only a Quixotic, no touch, much of the goal and uncommon and the lack of a real dream!

26.not long ago, selling american cars in japan was downright Quixotic.

27.manski might seem Quixotic in his request that serious policy analysis be presented with more humility, given that neither politicians nor the media have much appetite even for overly-certain serious policy analysis.

28.the us congress, instead of celebrating the rise of millions to the ranks of the middle class, has embarked on a Quixotic adventure to find a culprit for the rise in oil and commodities prices.

29.refusing to carry out orders would not only be pointlessly Quixotic, it would be downright stupid.

30.or was he backing down from a Quixotic effort that he now knows will cost him too much support back home?

31.he has always lived his life by a hopelessly Quixotic code of honour.

32.it seemed to john as if merely by making this blind Quixotic effort he was on the way to insure a happy issue for their love.

33.the artist on this Quixotic mission is a quiet, nondescript man with glasses and an anorak.

34.that makes an effort by google, to burrow deep into the leading us research libraries to make digital copies of all the works it can lay its hands on, seem both ambitious and Quixotic.

35.these may seem Quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with me.

36.china is a confucian society, a Quixotic combination of top-down patriarchy and bottom-up social mobility.

37.burma's current trade restrictions are a legacy of nearly total state control of the economy from 1962 to 1988, when gen ne win was pursuing his Quixotic burmese way to socialism.

38.most of the washington cognoscenti have written off a potential candidacy as Quixotic.