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1 having intentions or ideas that are admirable but not practical: --
The responsibilities for success or failure are far too grave and far-reaching to permit quixotic gestures for their own sake.
I very much regret that some authorities take quixotic and occasionally damaging decisions when exercising that discretion, but that is not my responsibility.
And yet, from this quixotic, covert, inequitable creature—be he conciliator or adjudicator—there is no right of appeal.
I know that this is a hopeless, quixotic, endeavour.
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.
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.
Yet to try to establish what ' really happened ', and distinguish this from the ' mythical ' past, is a quixotic exercise.
Yet, due to its typically quixotic and spontaneous nature, play is hard to document systematically.
