Quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior.
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Examples for "quixotism"
Examples for "quixotism"
1His was Kentucky origin and he was tainted with Kentucky's quixotism.
2He obeyed and expounded Sypher's quixotism in his roundabout fashion.
3Some of them laughed at my arguments, as a ridiculous piece of missionary quixotism.
4In most cases they had followed his advice, wondering not a little at this isolated example of quixotism.
5That amounted to quixotism, they declared.
1His conquests were conducted on what might almost be called principles of knight errantry.
2See what his crazy knight errantry had brought about.
3We were going on an adventure of knight errantry in which we might win our spurs.
4We wait in the nursery for the bridegroom and his father to ride home from their mission of knight errantry.
5Maclise was a romanticist, in thrall to images of medieval knight errantry on an epic and, almost certainly, illusory scale.
6To Christopher's surprise, Cynthia was the single member of the family who showed a sympathy with his reckless knight errantry.
7I am not in this land for knight errantry, but I am here to make head against the King's enemies.
8In the days of knight errantry, every one meeting a stranger had to suppose him an enemy; ten to one he was.
9You were born two hundred years too late; the ancient days of knight errantry and chivalry would have suited you better than these.
10President Olivier might be called a visionary or a nuisance; but even his enemies admitted that he was magnanimous to the point of knight errantry.
11So he took her home, and his Knight Errantry was justified at last.
12"And perhaps just a bit of knight errantry?"
Translations for knight errantry