quixotic in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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An impulsive person or act might be regarded as quixotic.
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This allows us to attach a sense of the quixotic to the experience we have endured as we recount it from a distance.
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So certain pilots were dispatched on a number of dangerous or quixotic missions.
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The old pragmatists naturally balked at the prospect of turning their lucrative cash-making enterprise into a quixotic venture for holy glory.
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Crozier had a quixotic campaign for state superintendent, which received publicity as he was advocating students to use textbooks as shields against projectiles in the event of a school invasion.
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His personality became progressively quixotic as his drinking increased over the years and his health deteriorated.
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Then came the changes, adjustments imposed by the challenges of developing an enterprise of great ambitions, in much quixotic.
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His five-piece band are brilliant, as they would need to be to cope with his wayward phrasing and quixotic sense of rhythm.
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It manages to be serious, accurate and instructive, but is also an amusing text, quixotic and deeply moving.
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What is it about this quixotic rebel and libertine that so fascinates us?
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