Trying to please everyone all of the time is considered to be quixotic. From LearnThat.org.
As quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
From Quixote we derived the word quixotic, meaning extravagantly chivalrous and romantically idealistic. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Dream] Reference
"quixotic" - it's amazing the intellectual reach of the man they call Keith Olbermann. From Wordnik.com. [Pew: Obama Losing White Working Class Dems To Hillary In Landslide] Reference
One reserves the term "quixotic" for hopeless causes. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Ended Slavery] Reference
"I just wondered whether perhaps you were familiar with the term 'quixotic'.". From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
I have been called "tongue in cheek" if not "quixotic" for this modest proposal. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: A Gentling Pharmaceutical to Save the World] Reference
What's "quixotic" about another repetition of the idea that fat people are actually healthy?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
Publicity is already building, as you can see by the tour website, and Larry has some ingenious ideas for funding his "quixotic" project. From Wordnik.com. [Book Nerd Returns; Link-Mad Monday; Preview] Reference
The word quixotic is used to his commemoration. From Wordnik.com. [Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be.] Reference
I don't picture myself as someone kind of quixotic figure. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
This story is to bad leadership what "quixotic" is to scrabble. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Ask Bob Alexander how often he's heard the word "quixotic" recently. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
I suddenly imagine myself dropping words like "quixotic" and "evzone" into e-mails and blogs just to up my score. From Wordnik.com. [Crave: The gadget blog] Reference
I volunteered to work on his campaign before the 2006 Democratic primary and was proud to be a supporter of a "quixotic" candidate. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
"quixotic" for my unflagging desire to enforce existing employment laws. From Wordnik.com. [IdahoStatesman.com News Updates] Reference
I know of people who voted for Ralph Nader, but that’s kind of quixotic, don’t youthink. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin] Reference
There's a quixotic quality to the McCain campaign that reporters adore. From Wordnik.com. [A Soft Spot For A Hard Charger] Reference
To many, Ford's move seemed liked a quixotic and presumptuous power grab. From Wordnik.com. [The Path To Power] Reference
They were sufficiently quixotic and idealistic almost to like each other. From Wordnik.com. [Ross Reruns] Reference
Their value system is a quixotic combination of regimentation and ambition. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: How China Feels About America: Dangerous Love] Reference
"Without me this project would die, so I took it on," he says with quixotic pride. From Wordnik.com. [Stempel's Revolution] Reference
My own book "Stinky Cheese Man" owes a ton to this quixotic, convoluted narrative. 3. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Jon Scieszka] Reference
But none of his quixotic behavior should obscure his extraordinary prowess at the plate. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball’s Good News] Reference
I assumed this was an instance of that quixotic vanity he played for laughs — or did he?. From Wordnik.com. [Elegy for the Executive Director] Reference
Yet I find myself somewhat drawn in by the quixotic idea that we should "teach the argument.". From Wordnik.com. [The Texas-Size Debate Over Teaching Evolution] Reference
But it is also entirely a result of the quixotic battle Tatum waged during his years in Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Murder In Moscow] Reference
The idea would have sounded more than quixotic even a year ago; now it is worth paying attention to. From Wordnik.com. [Mcconnell's Challenge] Reference
The pursuit of this quixotic goal leads to interventions like the fiasco in Iraq and to a war against all Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: THE 'CONSCIENCE OF A GENERATION' SPEAK] Reference
Glenn Beck, in his quixotic crusade against social justice, would have us believe that social justice is like Nazism. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Religion, Science and False Logic] Reference
In Washington, an Illinois tire manufacturer named Morry Taylor was touting his quixotic candidacy for the GOP nomination. From Wordnik.com. [Let The Party Begin] Reference
Taking guns away from Afghans seems one of the more hopeless and quixotic tasks in the effort to rebuild the ravaged country. From Wordnik.com. [The Ways Of A Warlord] Reference
Based on the sheer volume of these efforts, however, it's reasonable to assume that the bulk of them, though sincere, are quixotic. From Wordnik.com. [Beliefwatch: Interfaith] Reference
Ambivalent about his sexuality, he's had a long sucession of boyfriends while making quixotic attempts to marry Cher and Marlo Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [What Makes David Run] Reference
Sarah Palin made what is perhaps her most quixotic endorsement to date on Wednesday, backing businessman Brian Murphy over former Gov. From Wordnik.com. [Palin makes her most surprising endorsement yet] Reference
How quixotic of Burns to make a film to show what the worst war in history actually was, back when we agreed that things actually were. From Wordnik.com. [War and Remembrance] Reference
I write for and about singles who love their single lives, and are not on some quixotic quest to become unsingle and thereby full of bliss. From Wordnik.com. [Bella DePaulo: The Sometimes Sordid History of the American Quest for Bliss in Marriage] Reference
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