• Look up quixotic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quixotic may refer to: Quixotism, deriving from the novel Don Quixote Quixotic (album), an album...
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  • Quixotic is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Martina Topley-Bird. The album spans several musical styles including trip hop, electronic and...
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    Quixotism (redirect from Quixotically)
    Quixotism (/kwɪkˈsɒtɪzəm/ or /kiːˈhoʊtɪzəm/; adj. quixotic) is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals manifested by rash, lofty and...
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    (1844), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) as well as the word quixotic. Mark Twain referred to the book as having "swept the world's admiration...
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  • Knights (Catalan: Honor de cavalleria; also known as Honor of the Knights/Quixotic) is a 2006 slow film by Catalan auteur Albert Serra. The film re-envisions...
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  • Michael Lira Production companies Brittany House Pictures Emedia Films Quixotic Road Distributed by Good Deed Entertainment Release dates June 1, 2015 (2015-06-01)...
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    herculean when referring to the figurative, generalized extension sense; and quixotic and diesel engine [lowercase only]. For any given term, one dictionary...
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    Album Glenn Tilbrook Quixotic "Parallel World" Single Glenn Tilbrook Quixotic "This is Where You Ain't" Single Glenn Tilbrook Quixotic "Monkey Puzzle Tree"...
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    Tension (both in 1996). In 2003, Topley-Bird released her debut solo album, Quixotic, which was critically praised and earned her a Mercury Prize nomination...
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    Retrieved 25 October 2018. Kafala, Tarik (20 October 2011). "Gaddafi's quixotic and brutal rule". BBC News. Archived from the original on 24 April 2023...
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    Rajko Igić in 1986 and published in his 1987 book Nova slovarica in a quixotic attempt to mend the linguistic differences and ambiguities between the...
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    and holds that the search for lasting peace, within or without, is both quixotic and misguided. Rather, Sith embrace strife and dark passion as salutary...
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    Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 18, 2023. "Candidate Nader runs quixotic campaign Unconventional effort has minimal budget and low expectations"...
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  • 2024. "Quixotic Games - About Quixotic". quixoticgames.com. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016. "Quixotic Games -...
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  • characters are another source of literary neologisms. Some examples include: Quixotic, referring to a misguided romantic quest like that of the title character...
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    University Press. ISBN 9780813812953. Schmidt, Karl (1960). Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948. Syracuse University Press. Busch, Andrew E. "Last Gasp: Henry...
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    Retrieved 8 October 2014. Luke J. Foster, "Tilting After the Trenches: The Quixotic Return of Heroism in G.K. Chesterton's Modernism", Columbia University...
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    as a fundraising single for Charlton Athletic F.C. Tilbrook formed the Quixotic label for this and future Squeeze-related releases, as well as releases...
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  • Quixote's horse, De Armas studies the uses of parody in the novel; the quixotic attitudes that develop in Jim Holden and Joe Miller; the image of Julie...
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    brink" and that "at the presidential level votes should not be wasted on quixotic schemes" Later in August, New Jersey Republicans attempted to keep Sonski...
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    Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were, respectively, quixotic, hypocritical and vapidly factual. The character that made Dickens famous...
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    would have starred Johnny Depp as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero. Bridges also narrated the documentaries National Geographic's Lewis...
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  • pandemic, outlined in the report, "Covid's economic reset: making the quixotic quotidian". In early 2022, Hunter joined AIG as executive vice president...
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    skittish White House advisers and Senate Democrats willing to waste months in quixotic pursuit of bipartisan cover. ... [She had to persuade progressives] that...
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    (a result of both the Marquis of Labrador's incompetence as well as the quixotic nature of Spain's agenda), but France (Talleyrand) was allowed to participate...
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    Sinclair Lewis, 1920–1930 (Penn State Press, 2010). online Light, Martin. The Quixotic Vision of Sinclair Lewis (1975) online. Love, Glen A. Babbitt: An American...
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    Commission and as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. In 1942, Fitzgerald ran a quixotic campaign for the U.S. Senate and lost the Democratic primary to Congressman...
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    gaining popularity in the U.S. Infamous for its celebrity guest lists, quixotic entry policies, extravagant events, rampant drug use, and sexual hedonism...
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    Bostonians (1886) is called Marmion, evoking what James considered the Quixotic idealism of such social reformers. In To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf...
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  • Towers the trilogy had achieved "a majestic proportion, chivalric and quixotic, earthly and magical, an experience that reaches beyond the dimensions...
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