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quixotic [kwɪkˈsɒtɪk, Am -ˈsɑ:t̬ɪk] ADJ liter

quixotic
quixotic proposal

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English
During many summer weeks, the life of the depressive, intellectual, quixotic protagonist is destroyed step by step.
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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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But, for now at least, it may be the most effective deterrent to our own tragic and quixotic fools of imperialism.
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Her quixotic character, pugnacity, ambition and daring plus her feminist pioneering meant that she was both admired and detested in equal measure.
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Dai has a quixotic style of sudden asides in her writing, which may occasionally confuse the reader.
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The piece is sanitised and stripped of its essence in a quixotic attempt to reach the utterly unknowable ("what the composer would have wanted").
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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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Some praise his willingness to undertake the daunting, quixotic, and ultimately unsuccessful task of restoring parliamentary rule in a smooth and bloodless manner in 1973.
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So certain pilots were dispatched on a number of dangerous or quixotic missions.
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