Sent to jail for two years, he has quixotically refused to clear himself by betraying his colleagues. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In the treatment of a criminal it is almost quixotically humane. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
I must say Mark has behaved extremely well about it, even quixotically. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
Obama critics from the left are not quixotically tilting at political reality. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Different Strokes] Reference
Caris, the daughter of a wealthy wool merchant, quixotically aims to become a doctor. From Wordnik.com. [Review of World Without End, by Ken Follett] Reference
Love the parody and at the same time quixotically the paen to American gung-ho overthetopness. From Wordnik.com. [The Android’s Dream: Chapter One « Whatever] Reference
Why do I quixotically think they will be less sexist, less racist, less this or that or the other?. From Wordnik.com. [Is there anything other than Sarah Palin you'd like to talk about?] Reference
And some might think the method of "convergence" is what I've been trying, quixotically, to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Getting perspective on ecumenism] Reference
The wine incident is a reminder of how differently and quixotically people take stands on matters of belief. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Even "Holy Land" Colorado Less Reliably Republican as State Demographics Shift] Reference
It would have been nothing more than a quixotically honourable waste of life ending in one only possible way. From Wordnik.com. [With Botha in the Field] Reference
Again and again he quixotically charged the bole of the tree, no doubt thinking it to be myself in a new shape. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
It is an impressive spectacle, so quixotically impressive, indeed, that one has to seek its like in mediaeval Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Later Articles and Reviews] Reference
Her works included poetry, plays, autobiography and books on prayer, and almost all were deeply, quixotically personal. From Wordnik.com. [NOVELS: "A Wrinkle In Time" Moves On...] Reference
At almost every turn, McCain has shown that he's willing to play a very quixotically honourable game to win the Presidency. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Klein's scurrilous meltdown.] Reference
Studying philosophy gives one's life a context that seems to say quixotically that we are both never alone and always alone. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
I was really surprised for this – for all Verardo knew, Mann could quixotically have decided to provide the residual series. From Wordnik.com. [More on Requests for Data « Climate Audit] Reference
There is a singular reason why AA is so quixotically contrarian, dislikes true believers, and asks more questions that she answers. From Wordnik.com. [Where I was when I was out of my milieu.] Reference
For Palin and her fossil foolish friends one might think that if Palin merely says it should happen, then it will quixotically happen. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Axelrod: Sarah, Plain and Simple; or, Drilling for the Superficial] Reference
May good cess befall all such quixotically misguided readers!. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
But here's what I'll be quixotically voting for next Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
This is not the US or China so we should not dream quixotically. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But living in the East so long has made him quixotically patriotic. From Wordnik.com. [Set in Silver] Reference
Virginia, that he should quixotically wreck his prospects for them?. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
He knows he regarded the confidentiality of those agreements quixotically. From Wordnik.com. [Watts Up With That?] Reference
He was aimlessly industrious, crotchety but kind, and almost quixotically honest. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
But not everyone acts on that belief - most, quixotically, out of simple laziness. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
To be recklessly and quixotically heroic is not within the function of Popes; moreover. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Cesare Borgia]
He begins it by quixotically describing a dream where he became disconnected with Hebrew. From Wordnik.com. [Jewlicious] Reference
Mr Broune did not think that an offer so quixotically generous as this should be accepted. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
At least Norman Mailer and William Buckley had some original ideas when they quixotically ran. From Wordnik.com. [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference
Many of them choose "not at all," hurling themselves quixotically at dam aprons and up spillways. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Crossing] Reference
That one picture said it all: an unarmed civilian quixotically defying the power of the Chinese state. From Wordnik.com. [World Blog] Reference
He was not ashamed of being unaffectedly emotional, and he was not vaporous or quixotically sentimental. From Wordnik.com. [At Large] Reference
Another great Bootleg virtue is its unearthing of classic songs quixotically left off albums or shunted on to soundtracks. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I love myself and I love the community that comes so quixotically close to dismissing me but then so endearingly stops short. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
Hereafter, in every age, some will be found to start afresh quixotically, through what wastes of words! in search of that true. From Wordnik.com. [Plato and Platonism] Reference
And you are deliberately and quixotically risking it, and I allow you to risk it, because a girl's happiness hangs in the balance!. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
Maria, Adele's oldest friend and fellow artistic bohemian, looks at Caden quixotically and informs him that his daughter is 10-years-old. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
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