quixotic

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• He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
• Adams is deeply interested in the broader musical dimensions of culture, how pop music and classical music coexist and sometimes cross-fertilize, how composers need audience feedback, how musical generations succeed one another and how some artists will fight quixotic battles to their dying day, holding true to avant-garde orthodoxy no matter how isolating it is. A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else
• I think there would be a certain amount of consensus about that, even amongst the most quixotic and naturally amorous of us.
• So this exercise in tilting at windmills can't even be described as quixotic, since that would imply some expectation of success, however delusional. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
• It is also bolstered by fine literary criticism that is effortlessly introduced into the narrative of a quixotic life. Times, Sunday Times
• Now that he wants to rejoin society no goal seems more quixotic and hopeless. Times, Sunday Times
• I suddenly imagine myself dropping words like "quixotic" and "evzone" into e-mails and blogs just to up my score. Crave: The gadget blog
• Now, granted, gNAW will get the rights to do a Teennuts manga when Hell freezes over (I mean the other parts, not Cocytus), so if your reaction matches that of quixoticals, you can just chillax cuz it ain't gonna happen anyway. C'mon, Tell Me This Isn't Awesome
• My quixotical quest is described here; background on the MDL panel, funded by your tax dollars, is here. His Honor
• In these papers, where he was largely concerned with general philosophical problems of time and space, he adopted a quixotic standpoint in his attempt to refute the theory as being logically untenable.