His name was Graves, and he regarded what he called the judge's "quixotism" with condescending good-nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the People] Reference

The materialism of this age must pass away, as has passed the quixotism of the crusades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society] Reference

In other words, Burke was quite ready to anticipate, or to meet, any charge of quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reactionary Prophet] Reference

But Philip was off somewhere, gone out of his life this many a day in a characteristic burst of quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane of the Green Van] Reference

If, as Pacheco reports, Luis de Leon was the most taciturn of men, he was chivalrous to the point of quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference

I have also had to pay through the nose 175 dollars for my quixotism — a sum which I cannot very well afford.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Senator] Reference

Haven't you surrendered enough, without the quixotism of returning to him what he doesn't either want or expect?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

Just as chivalry was one thing and quixotism was quite a different thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Condensed Militarism in Canada] Reference

"It seems as if you were going rather far in your quixotism to marry him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bambi] Reference

That would have been sheer quixotism -- only to end fatally for all of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference

Some of them laughed at my arguments, as a ridiculous piece of missionary quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference

I could have wrung my hands over Max's obstinacy and quixotism: he carried his generosity to a fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Max] Reference

In most cases they had followed his advice, wondering not a little at this isolated example of quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

I have also had to pay through the nose 175 dollars for my quixotism -- a sum which I cannot very well afford.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Senator] Reference

What you have set your heart on is a piece of unjustifiable quixotism; and I have only one thing to beg of you now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Desmond, V.C.] Reference

He's going deliberately to spoil his chances for a call to St. Antipas by a piece of mere early-Christian quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seeker] Reference

He could not rouse the people in his State to join him in a plan that they looked on as a costly piece of quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorials of a southern planter,] Reference

Wallen was mere sentiment, quixotism, proximity, and that he would speedily recover could they only get him away awhile?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike] Reference

I felt therefore an obligation to let his humanity work itself out, -- which gave comfort and encouragement to my quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romantic Young Lady] Reference

Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference

He would be an admirable machine, in a plan whose purpose was to generate or foster, in a given subject, the frenzy of quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

No. It isn’t in me to challenge the world and declare open war against its judgments; besides, I do not believe in such quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XIV] Reference

It was a question, not of reason, not of human pity, not of quixotism; not of any argument or sentiment for which I could be responsible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference

It was Barbara's part, therefore, to play the game in such a way that a bit of quixotism would be the most foolish thing of which Rash would be suspected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dust Flower] Reference

My dear child, you ought to know your value better, and not to allow your life to be worried away for no earthly good - it is a sort of quixotism you have for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Hermione, perhaps, had been wiser than he, and yet he could not help feeling something that was almost like anger against her for what he called her quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spirit in Prison] Reference

Leave the tithe alone by all means, if you like, but do not carry quixotism to the borders of insanity by declining to spend your own money, and thereby cramp your life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Sinners] Reference

What I have suggested to you is mad quixotism at the best, and at the worst -- well, do you recall what happened to poor Vyner, who was held for ransom by Greek brigands?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference

"the quixotism is on your side in making so big a proposal on Vane's behalf.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias] Reference

Colonel, is taken care of, and, I doubt not, will soon be sensible of the value of his quixotism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Forest] Reference

That's all, "he ended shamefacedly; and added, as though such a piece of quixotism required justification to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Otherwise Phyllis] Reference

When I announced my plan to my companions, without in any way hiding from them all its dangers and quixotism, all of them answered very quickly and shortly: "Lead us!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts, Men and Gods] Reference

It may have been a little quixotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winding Paths] Reference

That amounted to quixotism, they declared.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

Comments quixotism says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: Mindfulness-based therapy in Time Magazine] Reference