quixotic

Dessa är ordets examples relaterade till quixotic. Klicka på valfritt ord för att gå till dess ords detaljsida. Eller, gå till definitionen av quixotic.

Exempel på quixotic

  • To suggest that the record company will simply dissolve because of online delivery is quixotic.

  • At the same time, he acknowledges the quixotic nature of an idea that is 'a kind of rearguard response to the commodification of architecture'.

  • But it was hard to love the following 17-minute manipulation of synthesised drum-kit patterns, and the project felt self-absorbed and quixotic.

  • The honour of banners and rhetoric and quixotic courage was real and often useful, but it was not central to the practice of soldier's honour.

  • Parole seems at first sight a highly chivalric, even quixotic, institution.

  • Capturing this acceptably well by using crosssectional data aggregated by provinces is a quixotic quest, and can never yield more than very crude results.

  • One date, however, proves quixotic in this respect.

  • Yet, due to its typically quixotic and spontaneous nature, play is hard to document systematically.

  • Yet to try to establish what ' really happened ', and distinguish this from the ' mythical ' past, is a quixotic exercise.

  • Conservatives ' ' were increasingly cognizant, ' ' he says, ' ' of the need to avoid either quixotic antistatism or morose authoritarianism if their movement was to capture national power and respect.

  • In view of this complexity, it would surely be quixotic to look for a very simple explanation of the cross-national patterns of wage inequality described above.

  • I know that this is a hopeless, quixotic, endeavour.

  • And yet, from this quixotic, covert, inequitable creature—be he conciliator or adjudicator—there is no right of appeal.

  • I very much regret that some authorities take quixotic and occasionally damaging decisions when exercising that discretion, but that is not my responsibility.

  • The responsibilities for success or failure are far too grave and far-reaching to permit quixotic gestures for their own sake.

Betydelse av quixotic

Browse By Letter

NYA ORD

European

May 10, 2021

Läs mer

DAGENS ORD

Shimmer

May 10, 2021

Läs mer