don-quixotic

Example Sentences

• "To interfere in behalf of a woman so situated, would cast a sort of contamination on her; and therefore have the effect of Don-Quixotic interruption of the boy’s castigation from his master,—only redouble the stripes."
• "After waiting for fully three-quarters of an hour the Don-Quixotic looking individual who had received me announced himself as ready to show us the remaining parlors."
• "It was true that in the levities of her own infatuation, in the insolences of her sudden social triumph, she had showered upon the Don-Quixotic mentor of her girlhood, open, cruel, and contemptuous slights."
• "A Don Quixote he lived, and a Don Quixote he died, according to Wasserman, who writes: “When he felt his last hour was near, he sent for a notary and witnesses, intending to cancel the will of 1498 and draw up another. It begins with the Don-Quixotic dictum: ‘As I am making a free gift of India to the King and Queen . . .’[…]”"
• "Of all of the inane, misdirected and Don-Quixotic editorials and cartoons you’ve ever run to knock down a strawman argument, your sophomoric pap about the introduction of Encore to cable viewers takes the cliche."
• "If I knew, at least, that you meant to write a fictional life of Zacharias Lichter, so be it! Or a comedic history, serene, Don-Quixotic, naive, larger than life."