| 单词 | quixotic |
| 例句 | He was a tall, gangly, intense, quarrelsome teenager, a quixotic chess prince who exhibited occasional flashes of charm and grace. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Knowing Juanita and her quixotic ways, this could turn into one of her many harebrained schemes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A quixotic hero dreams the impossible dream. realtor. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I realized that I had not been objective in my quixotic fight to save the clubs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The man made a sweeping, quixotic bow, nearly falling from the horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He describes Kelling, in fact, as his intellectual mentor, and so his first step as police chief was as seemingly quixotic as Gunn’s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The two authors argue for the historic importance of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international agreement usually dismissed by historians as ineffectual and quixotic. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Still, the oligarch’s wife and her resolutely uncommercial protégé added a quixotic counterpoint the this year’s biennale, and a rare sense of mission. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A Russian Guru at Work in Venice 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z “Rebirth,” the last album he released before he began serving a one-year jail sentence at Rikers Island, was his quixotic attempt at a rap-rock album, an out-of-date idea that he treated like aggressive scientific research. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-10T20:45:00Z Its release during an actual pandemic is coincidental, but the quixotic, larger-than-life tone is exactly what Flynn, who has been working on the story off and on for seven years, envisioned. Gillian Flynn Takes Her Paranoia to Television 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z I remember falling in love with Don Quixote — with all things quixotic, really. Aaron Sorkin finds a heroine after his own heart in ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The idea that people are innately good — which is what Hilary hopes to prove — certainly has an enhanced quixotic luster. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z So are all of us who engage in the quixotic pursuit of trying to describe performances in meaningful and evocative ways. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing As conceived by Ridley and conveyed by Benjamin, Hendrix is first and foremost an artist, someone who could be fragile, elusive, quixotic and temperamental. 'Jimi: All Is By My Side': Before Hendrix became Hendrix 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z JL: In truth, I felt more quixotic in the period that spawned the current orthodoxy. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z He was briefly Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s press secretary during McCarthy’s quixotic bid for the presidency. In ‘Reporter,’ Seymour Hersh Recounts Leaping Tall Deadlines in Single Bounds 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z But the notion that he’d reached a satisfying conclusion to what seemed his most quixotic writing journey, let alone that anyone would ever usher it into print—this never seemed remotely likely. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Photograph: Chris McAndrew/ Camera Press There must be something quixotic about a director who sets out to make a film of 's Ulysses. Joseph Strick obituary 2010-06-17T18:02:00Z “But underneath that, he’s interested in the imperfections, mistakes and faults that arise as a natural part of his process. His installations are magical and quixotic.” The Danish Glassblower Making Modern Curiosities 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z "Now I think, 'Screw it.' It's going to be ugly. It's not going to be graceful. I'm not going to go down quietly. I think there's something noble about that. There's something quixotic about it. " The New Pornographers lighten up while sharing life lessons 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But “Namouna” juxtaposes its references with such quixotic dexterity and humor that its final effect is of contemporaneity. Dance Review: The Sailor Who Fell Into Grace With the Wig-Wearing Nymphs 2010-09-19T22:07:00Z Later, I’d see the same barista manning the counter and squeegeeing condensation from the windows at the Blue Scorcher Bakery Café, in downtown Astoria, an organic, vegetarian cooperative with a quixotic magazine rack. Overnighter: Astoria, Oregon, Discovers a Waterfront Chic 2011-03-25T18:55:00Z What follows is the first in a series of posts that will chronicle everything I learn in my potentially quixotic but hopefully fruitful house hunt for the Italian villa that we fantasize about owning. | Ciao, Tuscany! 2012-08-09T15:21:49Z She's not an obvious Wizard of Oz type, though knowing her adventurous and quixotic spirit, she probably knows all Judy Garland's songs and the actions too. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Depending on whom you talk to, Mr. Russell, whose work includes the Persian Gulf war satire “Three Kings” and the existential corporate comedy “I Heart Huckabees,” is quixotic, combative and occasionally brilliant. The Carpetbagger: Behind Camera, Checking the Ego 2010-12-08T23:38:00Z Forty-three freestanding panels, cut in quixotic shapes, are sprinkled across the floor. Hugo Crosthwaite on the border and a sorrowful loss 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Fornieles claims he wants to capture that quixotic moment in young people's lives when they arrive at college – when they are away from home, often for the first time, their personalities not yet fully formed. American pie-eyed: Ed Fornieles's Animal House 2011-01-21T11:08:41Z The Long Island iced tea may be the cocktail that most often inspires quixotic bartenders to don their lifeguard gear. When Bad Drinks Go Good 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z He dismissed as “quixotic” the estate’s argument that Holmes was a “complex” character who was complete only when Conan Doyle wrote the 10 Holmes stories that remain under copyright. Conan Doyle Estate Told to Pay Legal Fees 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z You will never rue having a son with autism or marrying a quixotic drunk and dreamer — twice. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z He began to worry that his quixotic sense of adventure was obscuring a more perilous reality. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z This rich drama of quixotic politics fills to the bursting point its capacious new home at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Review: ‘Oslo’ Fills a Large Canvas in a Thrilling Production 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z At first, this new endeavor — which involves blowing up a plane, among other hurdles — comes across as quixotic, but it soon starts to feel like self-promotion. Review: In ‘Raiders!,’ Two Boys’ First, Great Movie Crush 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z “The point is that to take on quixotic projects because they’re huge is one of the things you can do when you have a certain amount of power,” says Krens. Michael Govan: A museum director who goes beyond the gallery walls 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The quixotic Angela, who's never mentioned without her title "the herbalist," demonstrates heretofore unsuspected fighting skills, like Yoda in "Attack of the Clones." 'Inheritance': a boy and his dragon grow up 2011-11-25T18:55:06Z It was fitting, then, that his latest character — the quixotic Rex Walls in “The Glass Castle,” opening Friday, Aug. 11 — is a man he described as having “a lot of colors.” Woody Harrelson’s Real Life Is Weirder than Fiction 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Surprised, stunned, I was nevertheless thrilled by his quixotic impulse. Sailing Into Today on a Boat From Our Past 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The idea of predicting and controlling is quixotic. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z Her quixotic clarity has influenced a younger generation of artists, like Sherman. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z But in the years after World War II, Mrs. Fichandler was in the vanguard of a quixotic effort to create serious-minded repertory hubs in other major American cities. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z There, he continues spying on the restless warriors as they plot a quixotic plan to liberate their homeland from the communists. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z “When I call myself a visionary, I don’t mean that in a grandiose way,” he says, before outlining a quixotic desire to build a “Hall of Fame” showcasing the school’s mostly unimpressive alumni. ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z “It’s not like a quixotic, Norman Mailer situation,” Mr. Saval said. The N+1 Candidate 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Criteria was a quixotic enterprise when it opened in 1958; most recording studios were in New York and Los Angeles at the time. Mack Emerman, Recording Studio Founder, Dies at 89 2013-05-28T15:38:39Z The sheer grandeur and the quixotic glory of his directorial achievement has clinched it for him. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Never beset by false modesty, Schoenberg stated that his quixotic, Handelian re-arrangement, Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, was "mainly intent on removing the defects of the Handelian style". National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-04-14T14:12:00Z Alongside the war on terror, an arguably even more quixotic campaign is being waged: against drugs. Our Drugs War 2010-08-16T05:45:00Z It’s often broadly funny but never mean or patronizing; it takes the Knights, their eccentricities and quixotic aspirations seriously, but not enough to squelch the fun. ‘Fighting With My Family’ Review: They Body Slam You, Your Mum and Dad. Lovingly. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z When they met, 10 years earlier, Irish American Daniel was trying to distract himself from an ugly divorce with a quixotic mission to collect his grandfather’s ashes from the old country. A marriage based on secrecy is threatened in ‘This Must Be the Place’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z We're sliding all that and more into our bellies in a quixotic effort to plug whatever holes dread has torn there, the type you can't see but definitely sense. How Joanna Gaines and Ina Garten deliver a one-two punch of comfort (food) TV 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The venture was high-minded and at times quixotic. Melvyn Zerman, Publisher of Performing Arts Books, Dies at 79 2010-04-26T04:40:00Z It’s a quixotic choice for Common, whose last high-profile squabble was with Ice Cube, more than 15 years ago, in a face-off with obvious sides and agendas. Critic?s Notebook: Social-Minded Hip-Hop Makes a Comeback 2011-12-21T19:58:04Z David M. Frost, a psychologist and assistant professor at Columbia University who studies long-term romantic relationships, warns that these trips are often quixotic and can easily backfire. The Hail-Mary-Moon 2013-08-01T00:59:19Z Caught in the extremity of their sudden freedom, Prentiss and Landry reluctantly agree to work for George on his quixotic peanut farm. Review | Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z With remarkable precision and emotional weight, these stories depict working-class Glasgow: slummy, rowdy, tribal, drunken, despondent, quixotic and irrepressible. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z What I was saying in the 1980s was utterly quixotic. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z The very idea of taking a picture of a black hole seems absurd, not just quixotic but outright impossible. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Despite the quixotic claims of modern neuroscience, there is no cure for trauma. “There is no cure for trauma. Once it enters the body, it stays there forever” 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z But his institution will not be a part of that conversation, its artifacts in storage, its allies dwindling and its prospects approaching quixotic. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Everything Jared does in this episode is hilarious, but his hushed admiration for Monica’s quixotic stand is a particular highlight: ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 4: Irrepressible Genius 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z In its quixotic way, the fog was already thinning. Modern Love: Clinging to Each Other, We Survived the Storm 2014-02-20T21:44:10Z His approach is quixotic – he describes the symphonies as "like spaceships, forever orbiting and sending out signals", which may sound spaced-out, but his Mahler is a cosmic experience. Philharmonia/Maazel ? review 2011-04-13T16:21:18Z In New York City, Andrew Yang, a businessman who gained fame during his quixotic 2020 presidential run, is a leading contender for the Democratic mayoral nomination. Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z “This quixotic action, which was based on an obviously unconstitutional statute, is finally nearing its end,” the auction house Sotheby’s said in an email statement. California Tried to Give Artists a Cut. But the Judges Said No. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Until recently, this mostly quixotic linguistic pursuit, born out of a passion for words and grammatical structures, lived on little-visited Web sites or in college dissertations. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z David seems unwilling to admit that the quixotic world is unreal, or at least any less real than the one-dimensional Flatland of a country that he shares with Simón. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Breezeblocks is the sort of idiosyncratic indie we'd imagine bands we've never heard such as Swell Maps or Arab Strap would have purveyed, affirming that there are quixotic imaginations at work here. New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1,275) 2012-05-24T15:26:10Z Some people accused me of being “excessively quixotic” and even of harming my fellow scribes, since my refusal cast a shadow over the newspaper and thus prevented people more sensible than me from joining it. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Writing “A Wilderness of Error” was Morris’s quixotic attempt to dislodge the case from public perception. ‘A Wilderness of Error’ Points the Lens Back at Errol Morris 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z But it’s really a touching study in the importance of living out your beliefs, however quixotic. Movie Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that many physicists thought the project was too quixotic to deserve funding. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z As well as waspish observations about personalities – Charles Clarke is "a quixotic contrarian" – there are revealing anecdotes. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z This was a manifestation of his concern for the economically underprivileged, but was also typical of his quixotic enthusiasms. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z Is there a more quixotic, more doomed wish to harbor in winter’s marrow? Perspective | It’s Christmas. Let the murder begin. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s not as quixotic a quest as it may seem. New to the Brooklyn Scene, the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club 2014-01-22T22:17:02Z Her commitment to the bit is intense, and a little quixotic. Taylor Swift Begins Her ‘Reputation’ Tour, Taking on Foes and Her Old Self 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But there is plenty to distract us from this quixotic, quasi-symbolic endeavor. ‘The Last Ship,’ With Songs by Sting, Opens on Broadway 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z For almost three years now, with the fervor of the newly converted, Ms. Marshall has been on a quest that from the outside may seem quixotic and even naïve. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Sting’s role, Jackie White, the leader of a quixotic plan to reopen the chained-up shipyards and build one last ship as a symbolic gesture of defiance, is not the leading one in the show. In ‘Last Ship,’ Sting Tries to Not Steal the Spotlight 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Still, as albums bearing arcane language, startling solecisms and quixotic musical structures go, Railway Architecture is probably the best of the year. New band of the day ? No 870: Silvery 2010-09-17T16:27:00Z He seems propelled by an unseen power source — something along the quixotic lines of Henri Bergson’s mysterious, unknowable élan vital. 'Doug Aitken: Electric Earth': Why MOCA's big new show has too few sparks 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The point is that conscripted featly to national symbols undermines the quixotic myth of the dispassionate sporting event. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z This was quixotic in more ways than one. Review: ‘Martial Bliss,’ a Loving Memoir About a Bookstore for Military Buffs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Chandler's insistence on rendering toska as was a noble if quixotic effort to enrich the English language. Say 'non' to phrasebook foreign language in fiction 2011-07-13T16:46:52Z When he joined Mr. Obama’s quixotic campaign, he was an easy fit among the earnest, grass-roots crowd. Kal Penn Returns to Movies From the White House 2011-11-11T20:42:49Z It’s not even clear just what this quixotic project is meant to accomplish, beyond a symbolic demonstration of the men’s work ethic and skills that are no longer in demand. Sting's "The Last Ship" Needs A Stronger Rudder on Broadway 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z And even if the goal can feel quixotic, fighting for it can itself be a form of therapy. Jeremy Ben-Ami, winning a place at the table for J Street 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z He was an imposing and charismatic man, if a little quixotic: he would sometimes disappear for months on end, and his behaviour was often erratic. Sigmar Polke obituary 2010-06-14T17:40:00Z He turned out to be a delightful Frenchman, with quixotic ambitions not only for global fraternity but also for the preservation of the French language. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z For Issue Project Room, founded in the East Village in 2003 and now based at the Old American Can Factory in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, quixotic ventures are the norm. Music Review: Ne(x)tworks Quartet Plays Feldman?s Six-Hour Work 2010-04-12T22:43:00Z One of the quixotic Helen personality features was that she did not even have a credit card. Helen Gurley Brown, as Others Saw Her 2012-08-15T23:24:49Z And they also know on some level that their battle may be a quixotic undertaking. "The Good Fight" dreams up a Hillary Clinton timeline we've all wondered about 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z An original musical with no familiar brand to exploit — particularly a show that doesn’t sell peppy uplift — has now become a quixotic, against-the-odds endeavor. In ‘Last Ship,’ Sting Tries to Not Steal the Spotlight 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Cumulatively, the drawings develop a quixotic character, performed by Weinstein-Murrow, and an ambiguous plot. Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z Franco proved them all wrong, in keeping with a preoccupation over artists undertaking quixotic and possibly ill-advised projects that spans his oeuvre and motivated his greatest success The Disaster Artist. Zero stars: is James Franco's starry Zeroville the worst film of 2019? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Near the end of the first section of “I Am Capitalism,” the choreographer Koosil-ja explains the work’s quixotic aim. Review: Koosil-ja Embraces Revolution in ‘I Am Capitalism’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z “Any hope that Jackson’s private writing might convey a more unified sense of self seems quixotic,” Laura Miller writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z If, out of a population of more than a billion, this seems like a quixotic position, Wang doesn't believe it's a hopeless one. Wang Shu: the architect challenging China's obsession with scale 2012-12-16T00:05:23Z "Everything is connected" was the flat tagline, a default globalisation slogan more suited to a mobile-phone campaign than a quixotic, pioneering blockbuster. Cloud Atlas: how Hollywood failed to put it on the map 2013-02-20T17:16:47Z Nevertheless, the premise lends a quixotic start to "Letters to Juliet," a blithely frivolous movie that glows with as much starry-eyed cliché and scenic splendor as it shudders with illogic and lack of common sense. 'Letters to Juliet': Lovely leading ladies and one miscast Romeo 2010-05-14T00:01:00Z And if Arturo’s own vaquero resolve is shadowed by quixotic futility, so much the better. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z As a kind of stump speech, he offers the quixotic story of his first experience with public nudity. Purists v partiers: the battle between two popular nudist resorts 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z His overarching purpose, “to refurbish isolationism and rehabilitate its reputation,” will strike many readers as quixotic. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Despite obviously being painfully thin-skinned, this quixotic performer takes the detritus of his personal life and transforms it into audacious, self-lacerating art in which he never remotely spares his own feelings. John Grant – review 2013-03-14T17:49:13Z But some films are increasingly viewing that possibility as quixotic in an industry where independent film and documentary distributors are rapidly disappearing. Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festival 2010-04-19T13:50:00Z Most of the time, these projects tend to reek of a please-call-me-William-Joel pretension — a quixotic yearning for high-cultural respect you’d think rock would have outgrown around the time Leonard Bernstein declared himself a Beatles fan. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z Although proud to design for the world's renowned stages, he also relished smaller, quixotic projects. Roger Butlin obituary 2011-08-17T17:52:04Z More than 40 years ago, from his fields in southern Louisiana, this was a lonely quest, but not a quixotic one. Sunflowers in October? Breeders are racing to develop plants that flower again and again. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z In some respects, that remains a quixotic project. The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Seven years after Washington opened its streets to the quirky, quixotic and sometimes crazy- delicious new generation of mobile vendors, the city’s street food has improved immeasurably. A call for tips: Help me find the area’s best cheap-eats destinations 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Colleagues and family members described him as driven, stubborn, uncompromising and intensely attracted to quixotic endeavors. Tom Laughlin, 82, Star of ‘Billy Jack’ Movie Series, Dies 2013-12-17T01:29:45Z Writing a book pitch, after all, is a notoriously quixotic thing to do. Was Marion 'Suge' Knight shot over a book proposal? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z There’s a quixotic purity about this not-too-bright fantasist, as he searches for the young woman he saw in a picture on a subway, the winner of this month’s Miss Turnstiles contest. Theater Review: In ‘On the Town,’ Sailors on Leave Look for Love 2013-06-19T21:10:16Z His first try to win office, in 2012, was stunningly quixotic, and he lost badly to the incumbent Maryland Democratic senator, Ben Cardin, after a surprise victory in a large Republican primary field. Dan Bongino isn’t just taking over where Rush Limbaugh left off — he’s building a conservative media universe 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z And in the repeated figure of quixotic “boulder-pushers” one senses where the author’s fiercest sympathies lie. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The resistance he describes was indeed quixotic, but not for the reasons Dunmore thinks. Letters: Alone in Berlin is morally compromised 2011-01-11T00:04:00Z Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk An eloquent cultural historian of Ireland traces the quixotic character of the Irish revolution. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The rapid, and sometimes quixotic, ways in which travel and tourism adapt to circumstances in regions afflicted by violence can throw up some strange anomalies. Can Middle East tourism ever recover? 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z While Nolan follows the bare facts of the Kelly story, he transforms his character into a quixotic dreamer who somehow reflects the wild pioneering spirit of the Australian outback. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2012-11-15T12:00:00Z Perhaps it was bought in the quixotic belief that the rumours of the Jackson co-write were true. Why would anyone want to buy the rights to The Simpsons hit Do the Bartman? 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Directed by Adrian Robe and Denisa Morariu-Tamas, the film documents her quixotic attempts to reclaim her medal 15 years after she won it in the individual all-around event. ‘The Golden Girl’ Review: A Lose-Lose Proposition 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z So in the eight-part special that airs later this month, he narrates his quixotic effort to unearth the tape, or tapes, that will reveal the president for who Arnold claims him to be. Who’s taping now? In Trump’s world, everything is recorded. 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z When that quixotic bid failed, swamped by the late populist surge of Alberto Fujimori, he withdrew from national politics but continued to explore the complex dissonances of South American politics. Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z His next films were similarly frugal productions, somewhat quixotic attempts to make art films in postwar Hollywood. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And on a personal level, I am informing people of the remarkable career of a quixotic pioneer of the American regional theater movement, my father, Arthur Lithgow, who died in 2004. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z His quixotic and winning book is an attempt to comprehend the physical realities of the Internet, to describe how this seemingly intangible thing is actually constructed. Books of The Times: ‘Tubes,’ by Andrew Blum, Explores Physical Reality of the Web 2012-06-19T14:31:24Z Recalling his hair-raising account of the disastrous year at Columbia with the rather vague, quixotic Puttnam, he speaks more brutally of his role. Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing by Jim Clark with John H Myers ? review 2011-07-28T11:18:01Z The book recounts Diamond’s troubled childhood in the Chicago suburbs, his experiences with homelessness, and his quixotic quest to write Hughes’ biography while working selling coffee and cupcakes in New York. Jason Diamond on accidentally writing his memoir, 'Searching for John Hughes' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “Barack Obama and every other president had a circle around them,” said Parnas, a Trump Guy who was dispatched to Ukraine on a quixotic quest to find dirt on Biden. All the president’s ‘Guys’ 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The story of this quixotic, dangerous and inevitably doomed enterprise is grippingly – and humorously – told. Michael Jacobs's top 10 Colombian stories 2012-12-05T13:01:06Z I sort of, in a laughably quixotic way, felt like a Desert Bird myself, like the more elegant version of a lone shark. The San Antonio cocktail that helped me see myself clearly 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z But in an industry where independent film and documentary distributors are rapidly disappearing, some producers are increasingly viewing that possibility as quixotic. Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festival 2010-04-20T18:46:00Z With enough devotion over enough years, the quixotic might become real. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z I've been asked, not least by myself, if this quixotic enterprise has caused me to re-examine anything I've written, or thought, about music and the people who make it. The critic who hit the stage 2010-05-13T21:00:00Z In a quixotic quest to overturn election results, Trump’s advisers and lawyers have been holding bizarre news conferences, getting smackdowns from judges and saying things like “Release the Kraken.” The president pardons a turkey, one of the more normal things he’s done this month 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Which makes his quixotic quest for the White House all the more bewildering. Richard Norton Smith Dissects Nelson Rockefeller 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But Paterson Joseph goes much further than most by showing Brutus to be a man of quixotic temper swathed in self-regard. Julius Caesar – review 2012-06-07T00:13:00Z And it also gets to Putin's rather quixotic relationship to the truth. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Is he a benighted fool embarking on a quixotic quest, or a devoted son fulfilling a religious obligation? ‘Like a JDate for the Dead’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But I also wasn’t able, among all the parents of my acquaintance, to find a single one who didn’t think my plan was both quixotic and doomed. Motherlode Blog: No More Eating in the Car! 2012-02-21T18:57:36Z Herms’ wall works and sculptures — quixotic, surreal arrangements of found materials from the 1960s to the 1990s — are joys, poetic and subtly funny. Group show at Moran Bondaroff: A playfulness in its secrets 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z If you're right about "lock-in", doesn't that really mean that your campaign is essentially quixotic – that you are tilting at windmills? Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z King, Chuck Berry and Percy Sledge, Davis is also the author of, "Klan-Destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan," the story of his quixotic journey into the heart of the KKK. New Director for Centrum's Acoustic Blues Festival 2011-10-12T00:31:04Z An inability to distinguish truth from fiction is not usually a handicap for a drug company rep, but as the novel begins, Rushdie’s quixotic hero is forced into retirement. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But he marches on with a kind of quixotic optimism in pursuit of a few spins. Tuned in: Country music acts woo radio airplay 2011-03-04T08:16:05Z Like its characters it’s dreamily restless and prey to its own quixotic ideas. Movie Review: ‘Drunkboat,’ With John Malkovich and John Goodman 2012-07-12T23:41:40Z There have been minor slips – Cameron's curious tale of the 10-year-old sailor and Brown's quixotic decision to inform a pensioner of her own womanhood – but the others are just too straitjacketed to exploit these moments. Stage-managed? Theatre and the leaders' debate 2010-04-29T14:36:00Z It may seem to be a quixotic goal. The female guru bringing a niche and intricate Indian dance to D.C. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z There is perhaps no journey in the world of television more quixotic than the ceaseless quest to find the so-called “next” Seinfeld. The 'Next' Seinfeld Has Already Been on TV for a Decade 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Calling their quest to muscle their way back into relevance quixotic in our youth-obsessed culture is being mild. "Girls5eva" is a feel-good story about what happens when one-hit wonders get a second chance 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z A riches-to-rags story, an immigrant story and a quixotic road trip are bundled into Jade Chang’s sharply funny first novel. Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Today the informational plenitude, range and instant access Hernando imagined for his universal library doesn’t seem at all quixotic. Review | The story of Christopher Columbus’s son, the ultimate completist 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z In other hands, the quixotic efforts of the women may have been mined for gallows humor, or the producers could have shaped the conversation to make them look like dupes. Samantha Bee teases big election coverage, from presidential harassment to a strategic joy offensive 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z For a while he’s been releasing songs under the moniker Zoo Kid, quixotic little numbers that sound ragged in terms of fidelity, but elegant in terms of songwriting. ArtsBeat Blog: King Krule Gargles at Glasslands 2011-10-21T00:33:26Z And quests like these, no matter how quixotic they may seem, and whether they succeed, could bring unanticipated benefits, not just for their ultimate goals but for the journey itself. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z What I see in cats, they have these quixotic and unpredictable personalities. 'Cat Art Show L.A. 2': How Amanda Seyfried became Mark Ryden's muse 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Their quests are quixotic: Some want to find a partner to share themselves with, and some can’t or won’t fathom it. ‘Virgin Territory,’ About Celibate Youth, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z This may sound like both a formidable and a quixotic goal, and in truth, Mr. Theise is not entirely successful. The Best Wine Books of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It was a quixotic artisanal project, perhaps, but one with potentially high business stakes. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z In “Blockchain Chicken Farm,” Wang introduces us to dozens of such quixotic figures, hopscotching across the country on a mission: to document how technology is transforming the lives of China’s rural poor. The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural China 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The rest of Last Splash is still just as brilliantly quixotic as ever. The weirdest album to ever go platinum 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z Alas, even this tiny quest is quixotic, the dryers spin like windmills, and Spillman learns a hard lesson about how little valiant intent matters when faced with intractable mind-sets. Review: ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ — the struggle to make a life that matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I’m beginning to feel like my hunt for Capone is itself a little quixotic. In Tijuana, searching for Al Capone 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z In 1972, his opposition to the Vietnam War led him to take on the quixotic mission of running for Congress as the Democratic nominee in a heavily Republican district in Kansas. Charles Barsotti, New Yorker cartoonist known for his simplicity, dies at 80 Brands offers a detailed, almost minute-by-minute account of Brown’s raid, which he rates a “wretched fiasco,” a “quixotic venture” that, far from unshackling the enslaved, tightened their shackles even further. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Supporting Barb in her quixotic pursuit is a circle of artistic friends, jokingly dubbed the “Knights of Creation.” ‘Unfortunate Importance of Beauty,’ by Amanda Filipacchi 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z I don't picture myself as someone kind of quixotic figure. Kevin Smith: Why He's Going Rogue with Red State 2011-02-04T00:05:00Z This would certainly be a quixotic, self-contradictory mission, but it was a mission nonetheless, and on my first day, I almost completely failed. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z Combine all those perspectives, and what results is precisely the kind of slightly quixotic mission to which the conductor has largely devoted his career. Music Review: Franz Schreker Opera Gets Its Chance at SummerScape 2010-08-02T21:57:00Z The policeman in Ralph finds Holly’s theories quixotic, but the father in him wonders if the fantasy might bring him one step closer to his son. ‘The Outsider’ Brings a Faceless Terror, and Stephen King, to HBO 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Hypertext flourished in the mid- to late nineties the Internet’s quixotic teen-hood. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Intrigued by the reference, Ms. Goldsmith spent a decade researching the life of Victoria Woodhull, a fortuneteller and suffragette who in 1872 launched a quixotic campaign as the first woman to run for president. Barbara Goldsmith, best-selling chronicler of the (unhappily) rich and famous, dies at 85 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The Renter joins Oskar in his search for the key’s rightful place, although it’s clear he, like the audience, finds the quest wildly quixotic. Brace Yourselves for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2011-12-21T15:15:09Z You seem to be drawn to obsessives as subjects — ambitious individuals on sometimes quixotic quests. Can a chimp be a person? D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on their latest film 'Unlocking the Cage' 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z To fight would be quixotic — and dangerous, mostly for us, but also for other people on the road. Perspective | There are certain realities in being an upright mammal over 50. Let me tell you a few. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The hotel’s quixotic Web site explained that this room’s décor “investigates the problem of simplicity, celebrating the human error.” Check In: Hotel Review: Playland Motel in Rockaway Beach, N.Y. 2013-09-03T21:08:19Z Knight, a Korean War veteran and nomadic laborer and mechanic, arrived in the community known as Slab City in 1984 on a quixotic quest. Will Salvation Mountain find its savior? The quest to save the desert folk-art landmark 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It reminds me, of course, that I have an actual home myself, and an actual life, and they’re waiting for me when I return from my quixotic adventure. In Transit Blog: In Wisconsin and Minnesota, in Good Company 2011-09-19T15:49:50Z His quixotic love affairs, his selfless defense of romantic causes, his heartbreaking poetry: all so different from the modern, computer-dominated world Lexy is forced to live in. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Leon's union-forming quest is quixotic, not unlike the journeys of so many of the 85 filmmakers who brought movies to Tribeca, which wrapped up Sunday. Al-Qaeda to Zonad: Highlights from Tribeca Fest 2010-05-02T21:16:00Z The writers don’t present Cochran as a quixotic altruist. The People v OJ Simpson: episode three – the Dream Team comes together 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The impulse to forge ahead with the ambitious — even he would admit, somewhat quixotic — five-volume series came about, at least in part, because Berger is feeling his mortality. Obsessed with Duke Ellington, one man is determined to illuminate the jazz composer’s stunning output 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z If you need a rationale for forging ahead in this perpetually strange environment, Wilson’s show might be the ultimate explainer: How to appreciate life among quixotic city dwellers and their inexplicable rituals. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Oh, the late-night jam session: that quixotic event marked by interminable noodling and sustained by ego, joy, and the consumption of lukewarm beers. Play It Again (for the First Time) 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z From the preshow variety acts to the postshow dance party, Ms. Landau makes sure we understand Blakk’s quixotic campaign in the context of a culture that makes magpie victories from scraps of found material. Review: In ‘Ms. Blakk for President,’ a Winning Losing Campaign 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Naysayers call it a quixotic quest, but the fund-raising goes by in a blink. ‘Louder Than Words,’ on Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Yet Schwarzenegger's impending new chapter recalls the first time the former bodybuilder attempted - and wildly succeeded at - a quixotic transition to Hollywood. Schwarzenegger sheds old life as he plots return 2011-05-12T10:31:05Z The bid was so quixotic that a handful of observers, some suspicious of McMullin’s C.I.A. background, wondered if someone was pulling the strings. Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z They meet an old knight, Sir Gawain, who’s on his own quixotic quest and becomes their protector from a host of mundane and supernatural threats. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Birkerts, a Late Modernist who produced monumental if also quixotic forms and died in August, is long overdue for his own monographic museum show. Best architecture in 2017: In a tough year, plenty of highlights 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The film also portrays ballet as a quixotic art form that demands nothing less than total submission to the craft. For Dancers, ?Black Swan? Is a Cautionary Tale 2011-01-07T21:13:52Z He barters and begs, and his quixotic project intersects with desperate plans for rebellion and escape that other prisoners are hatching. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Kraffts fit neatly within his gallery of quixotic figures unintimidated by what, in “Grizzly Man,” he called “the overwhelming indifference of nature.” Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z She's finally leaving her perch at the top not the way Woods did, due to scandal and injury, but voluntarily, to run her eponymous and perhaps quixotic cable network. A farewell to daytime's No. 1 2011-05-25T01:09:00Z At first, the retro impulse behind the bar, which Mr. Kong opened last year, felt like a quixotic gamble, he recalled. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s a first-person account of Chozick’s failed 10-year quest to see the “real” Hillary, a quixotic mission that is as revealing in defeat as it would have been in victory. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z And amenities seemed quixotic: no check-in or check-out times; personal assistants instead of concierges. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Capella Telluride in Telluride, Colo. 2010-04-03T03:49:00Z Her quixotic quest was not a lost cause, because she is inventing the tableaux she photographs. Deana Lawson Reveals Hidden Grandeur in Her Uncanny Portraits 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z At The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell is a quixotic genius and Anthony Lane writes about film with a combination of expertise and wit that is never less than intoxicating. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Now in its 30th year, SummerStage festival remains the quixotic ideal of New York entertainment for its talented and diverse performers, its luxurious al fresco locales throughout the five boroughs and its reliably giddy audiences. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z By Nov. 23, a Saturday, the quixotic project, “The Aqueduct Murals,” was completed and ready for first post. Street Artists Paint ‘Aqueduct Murals’ at the Track 2013-12-09T19:51:21Z Ausubel alternates chapters about the kids’ adventures and the parents’ quixotic journeys with those that comb back through Fern and Edgar’s childhoods, courtship, and marriage. 'Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty' is a charming summer tale of wealth and its loss 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z His contemporary, the late Gary Coleman, did the same when he launched his quixotic campaign for governor of California in 2003. Mayoral run revives the name Rodney Allen Rippy 2013-04-26T08:37:08Z In his quixotic view, people would be healthier and nicer, and the world better off, if there was a third place bar in every neighborhood. Tuesdays with Murray: 5 life lessons from a Seattle bartending folk hero 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z And it found him in the person of Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of those quixotic, improbable adventurers who, over the past two centuries, have served as the vanguards of new forms of empire. Moscow's man in Africa: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the collapse of the French empire 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z During his quixotic campaigns against the popular 16-term congresswoman, he frequently faced questions about how he was funding his lifestyle, including high-profile stops at far-right events, while he was largely unemployed. Frequent GOP L.A. congressional candidate charged with misusing campaign funds 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z "We ultimately decided, this was after three years of trying this, that this was a quixotic exercise because of the contracts." DuckDuckGo says market share constrained by rival Google's huge wallet 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z In their eyes, the liberal quest to conjure political order out of pluralism was quixotic at best and dangerously demented at worst. Why liberalism drives so many people crazy 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z When Pelto started this quixotic gig, he was just out of college. End of an epoch? King County may be down to its last glacier 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z “Long shot” might be a generous description of Mr. Jackson’s presidential potential, but his previous political campaigns have borne his quixotic ambitions and given him a measure of name recognition in Virginia. Virginia pastor calls for restoring ‘Judeo-Christian values’ in long-shot GOP presidential bid 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Last year, when Heywood ran a quixotic campaign to try to qualify 11 conservative ballot measures simultaneously, he didn’t include repealing the climate law. The great debate about climate and gas prices is only heating up 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z To Mr. Schlossberg, the quixotic challenge to President Biden for the Democratic nomination was just a “vanity project” that was tarnishing the legacy of his grandfather and their storied family. Anguish in Camelot: Kennedy Campaign Roils Storied Political Family 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z My own quixotic desire for programs where people say what they ought to say when they ought to say it, is, from a dramatic standpoint, of course completely wrongheaded. 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' review: In this moving drama, mysteries abound 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Woody plant roots affect available moisture, as do quixotic weather patterns. Gardeners hate to lose plants, but with every loss, there's growth 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z In a bid to recapture his signature vocal sound, Pone, 50, has embarked on a slightly quixotic and still-unfinished quest. A French Music Maker Lost His Voice. A Comedian Helped Get It Back. 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Mike McCarter, who has spearheaded a quixotic campaign to have conservative eastern Oregon become part of Idaho, said most people didn’t pay much attention to state government until the pandemic. Conservatives go to red states, Democrats to blue as the country grows more polarized 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z “We went to demonstrate our protest, and not to overthrow the government in the country,” he said of the quixotic drive toward Moscow. Putin Says Russia Is United Behind Him, After Quelling Rebellion 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps man's most quixotic delusion is that we can save someone, or something; I am not speaking here of faith but of our earthly endeavors. America's mainstream media still wants to save the GOP — but that's impossible 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The word “easy” is repeated often in the first chapters of what becomes a quixotic new entry in the millennial grifter canon. 'The Girls' novelist Emma Cline takes on the millennial grifter tale 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z It seems a bit quixotic in the face of wildfires, which have grown increasingly destructive in recent decades as the impacts of climate change and suburban sprawl have heightened the west’s vulnerability. Wildfires are ravaging the American west. Can a contest help solve the problem? 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z His quixotic trek moved from conversation to a kind of goal, though one forestalled by the pandemic, whose lockdowns made it impossible for a meanderer to ease in and out of strangers’ homes and lives. Review | A long walk from D.C. to New York traverses history, beauty and trash 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z They know that their mom is involved in a quixotic project to invigorate the Siberian steppe with grasses capable of storing massive amounts of carbon. Review | In ‘The Last Animal,’ a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth brings hope 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z That the effort is quixotic makes it all the more touching. Review | Ben Platt takes the lead in a too-stately ‘Parade’ on Broadway 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z To others, the secession effort has felt quixotic, or even idiotic. Oregon’s Rural-Urban Divide Sparks Talk of Secession 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z U2’s long, blockbuster career — 14 studio albums that have sold 170 million copies worldwide, plus 22 Grammys — is rooted in a similar quixotic ideal of trying to fathom big topics like love, faith and community. 'We have all quiet quit U2 over the years': A conversation with Bono and the Edge 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Yet he insists, in the quixotic style he has often demonstrated, on the most difficult of changes at a time when 40 percent of French families say they struggle to make ends meet. Macron Faces Pivotal Week in His Attempt to Change France at its Core 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z But the bill died in the House amid questions over whether year-round daylight saving time was actually safe or healthy, and also galvanized new energy around what many had seen as a quixotic issue. Permanent daylight saving time: The clock is ticking in Congress 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But that will also probably mean your goal of building a strong cousin network is quixotic from the start. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Parent worries about only child’s connections to cousins 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Most office employees don’t need to be in the office on a regular basis to do their jobs, and forcing them to do so for some greater civic good seems quixotic. Opinion | Federal workers are not downtown D.C.’s pawns’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Historians refer to the quixotic attempt by empires in decline to regain a lost hegemony through military adventurism as "micro-militarism." Don't believe the hype: Ukraine is rapidly becoming another war gone wrong 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z I realize that calling for Santos to be expelled might sound quixotic. Opinion | George Santos is a fraud. Expel him from the House. 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z He took an uncharacteristic career detour in 1974, managing the quixotic Democratic campaign of former U.S. Victor S. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Eleven months later, though, he was booted from office in the culmination of an ouster campaign that had at first appeared quixotic. Russell Pearce, Fiery Foe of Illegal Immigration, Dies at 75 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z So it was beyond quixotic when Toye, the Cosmos general manager, decided to try to persuade the player universally acclaimed as the world’s best, and highest paid, to join his team. Pelé, the Global Face of Soccer, Dies at 82 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z That’s scheduled for 2025 — an ambitious, perhaps quixotic timeline, considering Starship has yet to fly to Earth orbit, let alone to the moon. Musk and Starship are now at center stage in NASA’s moon landing hopes 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z For more than five years, a group of Polish and Latino Catholics from Chicago and its suburbs has been waging a fierce but quixotic fight against the Archdiocese of Chicago. In Chicago, a Battle Over a Religious Statue Is About Much More Than Religion 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Some now want the government to apologize for its hard-line approach, a quixotic hope. Your Friday Briefing: The U.S. Will Train More Ukraine Troops 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Many are now on an almost quixotic quest in the belief that the government should acknowledge its harsh policies were a severe mistake and should apologize for the harm it has caused. Traumatized by Covid, but Ruled by a Party That Never Apologizes 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “To launch this open-ended front on homelessness seemed quixotic, and unachievable.” Eric Garcetti led L.A. during profoundly turbulent times. How will history judge him? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Their investment was part of a quiet and quixotic effort to explore and mitigate the dangers of artificial intelligence, which many in Mr. Bankman-Fried’s circle believed could eventually destroy the world and damage humanity. How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Has Disrupted A.I. 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The drama propels the story toward its emotional climax, as Goldin’s once seemingly quixotic campaign shakes the museum world to its core. 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' taps the intersection of art, addiction, activism 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Hers was principally a performance candidacy — quixotic and merry. L.A. hasn't yet elected a woman as mayor. But a few have come close 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The cooperation has also extended to finance, with the ultimate, if somewhat quixotic, goal of what the junta says is the creation of “a financial system that does not rely on the U.S. currency.” Shunned by the West, Russia and Myanmar Form a Partnership of Unequals 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson pulled out of the race on Sunday evening, ending a quixotic bid to reclaim a job that he lost three months ago amid a cascade of scandals. Sunak was the clear front-runner. 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z That was before Musk decided to bid $44 billion to buy Twitter, a quixotic effort that has transfixed the political, media and investment worlds. Opinion | Elon Musk is no Steve Jobs 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z At the state level, Cedillo was nicknamed “One Bill Gil” for his tenacious — and at times seemingly quixotic — quest to pass legislation allowing immigrants who are in the country without authorization to obtain driver’s licenses. Gil Cedillo, a champion for immigrant rights, imperiled by racist leak scandal 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z It doesn’t do quixotic or go out on limbs. Money no longer fears LGBTQ people 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Ever since claims of election fraud arose in 2020, Wisconsin has seen its share of quixotic attempts to taint the presidential results. Election deniers failed to hand Wisconsin to Trump – but paved the way for future GOP success 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The hackers have used software developed by others with quixotic names — Hello Kitty/Five Hands and Zeppelin — that mask their malicious purpose. Criminal syndicate claims credit for LAUSD hack; authorities won't say whether it's true 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z There was something quixotic about the enterprise, which — for all its art world impact — seemed destined to be received with a kind of anticipatory nostalgia. Review | San Francisco’s Diego Rivera exhibition is the largest in 20 years 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z “We just started planting, and fit everything in afterward. That’s probably why it has such an odd feeling — quixotic and even sometimes silly.” The art of creating an outdoor room in your garden 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The ruling is the latest failure in a series of quixotic legal battles by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to copyright and patent the output of various AI software tools he’s created. AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z But in a sport of countless variables, this pursuit can sometimes seem quixotic. He’s baseball’s only mud supplier. It’s a job he may soon lose 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z One afternoon, I made my way to what’s known as the Birdhouse Forest in South Hero, the most quixotic public art on the Champlain Islands. Vermont’s Lake Champlain Islands offer a sweet, summery slice of mellow 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Bevis’ legacy also includes him using money he earned fishing for another quixotic project. The turbulent, poignant legacy of Peter Bevis, who brought the Kalakala and Lenin statue to Seattle 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Last year, in the middle of his first term, Nguyen launched a quixotic bid to unseat King County Executive Dow Constantine. The Times recommends: Joe Nguyen for Senate District 34 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Now, the project’s originator has suggested Spice DAO will back off its quixotic goal of creating a community-owned media powerhouse — but it’s not clear the group is actually changing any plans. The Dune crypto collective is facing a reckoning 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The last president even attempted to institute a historicist neoclassical style for new government buildings, as part of a quixotic and misguided attack on modernism in public architecture. Review | After colonialism, they wanted a new world. Architects built it. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z "JetBlue stockholders obviously agree that their company's quixotic offer for Spirit is a dead end, posing substantial risks to their own business," Spirit added. Spirit Airlines calls for shareholders to reject JetBlue bid 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Here, after World War II, the quixotic — all right, yes, and the downright weird — aviator/producer/industrialist Howard Hughes built the enormous wooden flying boat that just about everyone but Hughes called the Spruce Goose. Actors, bandits, priests and one English bulldog: The names behind L.A. beaches 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “This quixotic journey will not take place,” he added. Perdue suit pushing election fraud claims dismissed by judge 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “His quixotic optimism unifies us all,” said Riverside County Deputy Dist. Column: At Tom Rivera's memorial service, his dream of 'Future Leaders' is fulfilled 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z That deadline set off a quixotic fundraising spree starting with a GoFundMe campaign. Put out to pasture no more, Kitsap horse rescue Toni’s Ponies gets 2nd lease on life 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Living in Los Angeles requires a perpetual chase of beauty, a quixotic attempt to reach goal posts that keep moving in front of us. You haven’t truly made it in L.A. if you’ve never worn glasses from l.a.Eyeworks 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Ted Widmer, author of the 2020 book “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington,” said Lincoln had a “quixotic” time as a congressman, not distinguished by great legislative achievement. Lincoln tried to free the enslaved in D.C. years before he succeeded 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z These challenger campaigns are largely quixotic, run by veterans, political newcomers and local elected leaders who can muster barely a small fraction of the money, organization and news media attention as their incumbent opponents. Gosar, Far-Right Incumbent, Faces G.O.P. Challengers in Arizona 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Five years ago, that may have seemed quixotic, but something has stirred. ‘La French Tech’ Arrives Under Macron, but Proves No Panacea 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z "I think that the bond market is sober and the equity market is quixotic." Analysis: 'Mystifying' U.S. stock rally defies economic unease 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z It was a dream destined to die on its improbable, quixotic vine. How I relocated my family from the D.C. area to British Columbia for two months during ski season 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Her quixotic presidential run also endeared her to conservatives with her contrarian views on foreign policy and culture war issues. Democrat Tulsi Gabbard draws cheers from conservatives at rare CPAC appearance 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Gaspard Koenig, a philosopher who has begun a quixotic presidential campaign, described de Gaulle’s transformation of the presidency as a “democratic trauma” for France. ‘Rather Very Human’: As Election Nears, Macron Tries to Soften His Image 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z He could try to cling to power until a party congress in the coming weeks where he could seek reelection, but that seems quixotic. Spain’s opposition leader in danger after spat with rival 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z It appears that the GOP establishment is pursuing one of its typically lame quixotic attempts to see if it might be possible to oust Donald Trump from the leadership of their party. "Trump fatigue" is hype: The GOP is still firmly in Donald Trump's grip — and that may haunt them 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s the latest chapter in an improbable, quixotic tale as well, one that involved far more obstacles than it did successes. Mexico's Donovan Carrillo giving Latin America hope and excitement in ice skating 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z A quixotic wind drives flames along odd courses, here and across the West, so cruel luck, along with skilled firefighting, can often mean the difference between a spared home and homelessness. Colorado residents still reeling from mass shooting now contend with Marshall Fire disaster 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z In authoritarian countries like China or Russia, just to take two prominent examples, shareholder rights efforts are, at present, quixotic. The Risk of Avoiding Emerging Markets 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The enterprise seemed quixotic, to say the least, when she announced it. How Taylor Swift reclaimed her past to win 2021 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z After five days of fruitless talks between Iran and the United States’ European allies in Vienna last week, reviving the 2015 deal seems more quixotic than ever. Opinion | Time for talking with Iran is running out 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The state’s requirements that publicly traded corporations diversify their boardrooms were ridiculed as quixotic by conservative columnists and some corporate chieftains. California outlawed the all-white-male boardroom. That move is reshaping corporate America 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The lush music makes a quixotic quest seem somehow more significant. Review: 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion' extracts suspense from retro video pranks 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The result is a quixotic and somewhat meandering journey of a book, but one powerfully propelled by the force of Roach’s unflinching fascination with the weird, the gross and the downright improbable. Review | Animals and humans on a collision course (sometimes literally) 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But there he was, on home confinement and a self-appointed central figure in yet another quixotic legal battle. The man behind Texas abortion lawsuit is better known as an anti-tax crusader 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z For much of the past year, the contest to become Los Angeles’ next mayor has been a sleepy affair, barely registering with voters and drowned out by a quixotic statewide recall election. Momentous mayor's race will be a pitched battle over how to fix L.A.'s ills 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z In the evening, a quixotic senator, Joseph Lambert, declared he was about to take office as president. Op-Ed: In Haiti, the battle for leadership is really a battle for loot 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Soaring energy prices, partly a result of quixotic attempts to fine-tune the planet’s climate, inhibit the creation of industrial jobs. Opinion | Why Californians might trade Gavin Newsom in for Larry Elder 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Regardless, I knew instantly all my efforts to fly were moot — quixotic. Opinion | The billionaires’ space efforts may seem tone-deaf, but they’re important milestones 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s the latest city to become transfixed by Musk’s quixotic “Tesla in a tunnel” concept. Elon Musk’s Boring Company pitches underground transit loop to Fort Lauderdale 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z In the next moment, a truck will reach her and her quixotic protest will be over. Review: What happens when the mountain West doesn't love you back 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The quest to successfully reach across the aisle remained quixotic after he took office. Analysis: Biden rebuts doubts, wins bet on bipartisanship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z He made a quixotic run for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for the U.S. presidency in 2016. John McAfee, software entrepreneur with outlaw persona, dies in prison at 75 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Kaunda was also known for backing quixotic economic development projects, including what the Philadelphia Inquirer described as “an agrarian utopia” he wanted to build with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian president and African liberation symbol, dies at 97 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Brzezinski advocated for Operation Eagle Claw, the quixotic military rescue plan that led to nine deaths, the continued captivity of the hostages and deep embarrassment for the president. Review | Jimmy Carter’s missing ingredient: Presidential charisma 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z For months, he was semi-mocked for the seeming quixotic quirkiness of his coffee fasts and weight loss. Perspective | No one beats Father Time, but Phil Mickelson has shown how to extend the match 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Senate primaries so far seem to be competitions to decide which candidates can cast themselves as the strongest allies of Mr. Trump and his quixotic quest to overturn the election results. Rejecting Biden’s Win, Rising Republicans Attack Legitimacy of Elections 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z So they focused on just quietly following their quixotic subjects over the course of the 2003 recall campaign, letting what transpired speak for itself instead of butting in with off-camera narration or on-camera questions. Column: A long-shelved film about California's 2003 governor recall is ready for its close-up 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z That year, he opted against seeking reelection to the governorship, choosing instead to launch a quixotic bid for the U.S. Coronavirus politics to take center stage in next year’s Florida gubernatorial race 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Soderbergh: What I liked about it was this interesting iteration of our quixotic belief that technology is somehow going to solve our personal problems. The pandemic made our sex lives more digital. Inside the TV show that predicted it 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Lombroso's unconventional methods ultimately proved wildly inconsistent, his conclusions far more quixotic than reliable. Alphonse Bertillon and the troubling pursuit of human metrics 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z He talks about it, fires off press releases about it and continues to encourage rank-and-file Republicans to undertake quixotic investigations of it, like the ongoing "audit" of the vote in Arizona. Liz Cheney faces vote to remove her from Republican leadership 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Neither has been; the Rays’ ownership has refused to commit to privately financing a ballpark and has pursued a quixotic split-season plan between Tampa Bay and Montreal. MLB to A’s: Consider moving out of Oakland 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The quixotic hunt became known as “London Calling” within the House Intelligence Committee. Opinion | How Kash Patel rose from obscure Hill staffer to key operative in Trump’s battle with the intelligence community 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Trotta’s small, quixotic battle is part of a much larger struggle in the United States to wrestle power away from police unions that for too long have resisted meaningful reform. Opinion | The County Where Cops Call the Shots 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Though that may be true, his book proves that the quixotic search for linguistic purity can still lead us back to the rough ground of biology. Review | The surprisingly elusive definition of ‘life’ 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z But at times this spring, as he tears up the Cactus League, that desire has not seemed quixotic at all. Is it time to believe in Shohei Ohtani and the Angels? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z After last week’s escape at Brighton, where Daniel Amartey’s winner was a present after some rather quixotic goalkeeping, Leicester’s push for the Champions League is endangered by two possible bounces from Sheffield United. Leicester City v Sheffield United: Premier League – live! 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Despite the quixotic scale of his work, Mr. Polan’s vision of New York wasn’t grandiose or especially nostalgic. Opinion | Jason Polan, Flâneur 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Highway 1 is a California spectacle, a Depression-era monument to the state’s quixotic ambitions and stunning beauty. California’s intensified fires are increasing the threat to Highway 1, severed yet again Far from dismissing her ambition as foolish or quixotic, friends and supporters admire her nerve and penchant for speaking her mind. Who Is Arora Akanksha, the 34-Year-Old Running for U.N. Secretary General? 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z It was a quixotic quest to persuade dominant powers to relinquish their control over communications technology, and they didn’t get far. Australia vs. Facebook 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z And it is equally difficult to believe that a third-party challenge to the political duopoly would be anything other than quixotic. Opinion | Trump’s rot has reached the GOP’s roots 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Schumer seems to want to deter even a quixotic opponent who could become a nettlesome distraction or worse. Why Chuck Schumer Is Cozying Up to the A.O.C. Wing of His Party 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Capitol in a quixotic attempt to overthrow an election. Opinion | How Trumpism May Endure 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Mali, 55, is no stranger to quixotic missions. The Don Quixote of Brooklyn, Tilting at Plastic Bags 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z He implored his colleagues to give up their quixotic crusade and level with their constituents about the truth: Biden won the election. GOP reckons with mob insurrection as Congress returns to finalize electoral votes 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Trump continues his quixotic and lonely bid to overturn the results of the election he lost. Opinion | Trump, in his final days, goes full King Lear 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Rep. Tom Tiffany, who represents the 7th Congressional District in northern Wisconsin, eagerly signed onto a quixotic legal effort by the State of Texas to overturn the election in Wisconsin and three other states. Editorial Roundup: Recent excerpts from Wisconsin editorials 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Throughout those same months, however, Congress was locked in a dispute with President Trump about funding for his quixotic campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Perdue diverted military money to Trump's wall — while profiting from his own Pentagon bill 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z These players all absolve Sanders of responsibility for their quixotic collegiate journeys. Deion Sanders is inspiring hope at Jackson State. But what happened at Prime Prep? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Most of them were not willing to destroy their own professional reputations for Trump's quixotic need to soothe his battered psyche. Trump's whining about the "rigged" election feeds off GOP's longtime victim complex 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Her quixotic presidential run pitted her against her Democratic Party’s establishment and left her with more questions than clear prospects for a political future. Tulsi Gabbard heading off to uncertain political future 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Still, Trump continued to press quixotic lawsuits and tweet of fraud and defiant resolve. ‘Loser’: How a Lifelong Fear Bookended Trump’s Presidency 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Trump’s focus remains on his quixotic quest to overturn the election. As Biden marches forward with Cabinet, Trump hopes likely to fade in key states 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z In a newspaper interview on Friday, he insisted without evidence that the election was stolen from him and that his quixotic legal challenges will succeed. Officials condemn Trump's false claims and say election 'most secure in US history' 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Bloomberg is a one-time Republican, if a quixotic Manhattan version of the breed, who spent $500 million to support Democrats and defeat Trump. Opinion | The global establishment’s advice for Joe Biden 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z We sat at his dining room table and talked through our masks about his quixotic crusade. Column: This suburban ‘mask cop’ in the San Fernando Valley is 81 and loud 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Kingdom of Silence A compelling profile not just of Khashoggi, but of the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia, Rick Rowley’s documentary charts a quixotic path, from young reporter to self-exiled critic of his homeland. New movies to watch: 'The Forty-Year-Old Version,' 'Dick Johnson Is Dead' and more 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z A compelling profile not just of Khashoggi, but of the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia, the documentary charts the reporter’s quixotic path from young reporter to self-exiled critic of his homeland. Review: 'Kingdom of Silence' starkly explores Jamal Khashoggi's life and murder, and the U.S. response 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he insists he does want your vote now and that his seemingly quixotic quest is quite real. Former child star launches bid for White House 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Many Americans think of giving birth at home as backward and scary, or as a quixotic practice of privileged white women, akin to cloth diaper services and home-cooked baby food. Black women again turn to midwives, some fearing coronavirus in hospitals 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Like most topics related to this quixotic town of about 400 that abuts the West Coast’s only National Seashore, she was happy to share her knowledge — with everyone in about a 20-mile radius. In Point Reyes, all ears stay glued to local radio, a beacon amid the fog of fire 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Kanye West spent nearly $6 million over two months on his quixotic bid for the White House, largely to help get him on November ballots, according to a Federal Election Commission report filed Friday night. Kanye has spent nearly $6 million of his own money on his presidential campaign 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Adding to the chaos is rapper Kanye West’s quixotic presidential bid. Election chiefs worry about uncertainty as voting nears 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Since the accused did not live in Spain, Garzón’s quest was viewed as quixotic. Operation Condor: the illegal state network that terrorised South America 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The narrator is on a seemingly quixotic quest to take down a branch of these new alt-righters. An alt-right mind-bender for the QAnon era: How novelist Hari Kunzru went down the rabbit hole 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z That quest seems even more quixotic after the United Arab Emirates’ decision to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, which shattered the Arab consensus behind land for peace, a rare source of leverage for the Palestinians. Palestinian leaders stay the course as crises mount 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z If you’re a game developer, do you want to use the Unreal game engine that’s inextricably tied to what might be a quixotic campaign from the CEO of Epic? Apple and Epic have to win over more than just a judge 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z After becoming deeply involved in the 2014 protests that followed the police killing of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Bush made a quixotic 2016 run for U.S. Left-wing candidates keep racking up wins in challenge to Democratic establishment 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z That’s not what she wrote in 2011, when she dismissed the notion that “the effort to reaffirm a gold link for the dollar is politically quixotic.” Column: Senate GOP votes to put U.S. back on gold standard, one of the worst ideas ever 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z “An Irish solution to an Irish problem” is a derisive term in Ireland for attempted fixes that are daft or quixotic. Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Other experts say elimination is a quixotic target under any circumstances. In Tackling Coronavirus, Scotland Asserts Its Separateness From England 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z What would motivate someone with zero experience in card playing or gambling to drop everything else in her life to take on such a quixotic pursuit? Review | A psychologist finds herself at the poker table 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The suit, which Williams filed on 22 May, seems quixotic. Lawsuit alleges scientific misconduct at U.S. nuclear weapons lab 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Lee’s trajectory, from quixotic campaigner to mainstream icon, undaunted despite repeated setbacks, is in many ways the story of the democracy movement itself. The ‘Father of Democracy’ Caught Between Hong Kong’s Extremes 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z And congressional legislation tackling police reform that would have been dismissed as politically quixotic only weeks ago has planted itself squarely in the national discourse. Colin Kaepernick sacrificed it all for this moment. Now the work begins 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Musk selected a quixotic project as the focus of his newfound wealth: sending a small greenhouse to Mars. SpaceX Lifts NASA Astronauts to Orbit, Launching New Era of Spaceflight 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Burrow had become the clear-cut best prospect in the draft but only after a quixotic path and sudden ascent. NFL draft’s remote first round provides few surprises and some much-needed normalcy 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Trump was already facing a backlash over his championing of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, as a therapy for the coronavirus, a quixotic effort amplified by the conservative network Fox News. Medical experts denounce Trump's latest 'dangerous' suggestion to treat Covid-19 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Neighbors described him as “a loudmouth who refused to remove the rusting cars from his yard and made a quixotic run for mayor,” the Chicago Tribune reported. Detective recalls meeting ‘Truck Stop Killer’ Bruce Mendenhall in ‘Deadly Recall’: ‘There’s evil out there’ 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z This campaign sounds quixotic, but it seemed to be getting traction until the coronavirus pandemic hit. This Earth Day, we must stop the fossil fuel money pipeline | Bill McKibben 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z He continued on for nearly three years, even after the school dismissed him, in a self- described “quixotic, self-financed, kamikaze process” to reimagine the campus, developing a proposal that featured rounded buildings and interconnected dorms. Michael Sorkin, who championed social justice through architecture, dies at 71 from coronavirus 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z And here's some Golf Digest writer on a quixotic quest the perfect his stroke. Will Dustin Johnson emerge from the hiatus as the best putter on Tour? This video suggests he might - Golf Digest 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Rep Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who has continued her quixotic campaign with no chance of winning, was on the board with a pair of delegates she won in American Samoa. The beat goes on: Super Tuesday surge carries over for Biden 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z However, we think this effort is on much more solid ground than some of those quixotic ones. Editorial Roundup: Alabama 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z He is also no longer a quixotic junior senator from the idiosyncratic state of Vermont. Bernie Sanders, the Teflon Candidate, Faces Sudden New Tests 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Separation fever is sweeping the nation as quixotic but tenacious bands of frustrated rural dwellers, suburbanites and conservatives seek to break free from states with legislatures increasingly controlled by liberal big cities and metropolitan strongholds. Secession fever spikes as conservatives seek to escape blue-state rule 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Instead, he played down concerns about SoftBank’s future, dismissing worries about its enormous corporate debts and its underperforming investments in a number of quixotic tech firms. SoftBank Takes Another Multibillion-Dollar Hit From Bad Bets 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z For Sanders, Iowa was a return to a state where his once quixotic presidential ambitions in 2016 proved to be both plausible and durable. AP VoteCast: Many coalitions in Iowa Democratic caucus vote 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z That would be Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee — known for that exclamation point after his name, his plaid shirts and his quixotic presidential campaigns. Lamar Alexander's starring role: Why a retiring Tennessee senator took the fall for Trump 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Or perhaps quixotic would be a better word to describe it. They Changed the Way You Buy Your Basics 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The potential of that was enough on this raucous evening to savor the moment, to fall for the full range of the quixotic and talented Kyrgios as he found his way to a spirit-lifting win. Nick Kyrgios Holds His Temper, and Australia Holds Its Breath 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z But the calculus for candidates who set off on a quixotic mission is often personal and varies as much as they do. The GOP has almost no chance in Maryland’s 7th District. But these candidates want to try. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z He also began writing fiction, publishing the novel “Viva Max!,” about a Mexican general’s quixotic attempt to recapture the Alamo, in 1966. Jim Lehrer, understated PBS news anchor and presidential debate moderator, dies at 85 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z But two of their cousins stayed to launch a quixotic campaign for justice. US briefing: Wuhan on lockdown, Trump's travel ban and Bezos hack 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Instead, they have launched a quixotic campaign for justice – not just for their slain kin, but for the many thousands of people murdered or vanished amid Mexico’s cartel violence. The Mormons standing up to Mexico’s drug cartels: 'We have to overcome our fears’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z For the past 10 years, I’ve waged a quixotic counteroffensive against electric-car boosterism, raining skepticism on the vehicles’ potential to cure climate change, much less to be the clean, green wave of the transportation future. Opinion | Why electric cars still don’t live up to the hype 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Somewhere, some quixotic director is scratching out plans for another revival. Commentary: The movie is a wreck, the musical is a joke. Why, then, will we always have 'Cats'? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The other, more painful possibility, of course, is that these articles will be remembered as a quixotic protest against the dying of the light. Experts on impeachment: Is this the express-lane version — or a Democratic masterstroke? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Gerson launched what began as a seemingly quixotic legal effort, seeking to obtain compensation for victims’ families from the government of Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi, which was accused of carrying out the bombing. Allan Gerson, lawyer who sought justice for Lockerbie bombing victims, dies at 74 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z His inspiration is not the pursuit of beauty or some quixotic search for perfection. At Chelsea, Hard Work as High Art 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z It was another amusing moment in his quixotic, yet entertaining quest for the White House that has managed to outlast governors and members of Congress.” Snoozefest in Atlanta 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z As anyone who has been to a town-hall meeting, or just watched one on “Parks and Recreation,” knows, it can also be an invitation for obscure speechifying, quixotic schemes, and ad-hominem sabre rattling. The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z That is, shall we say, a quixotic interpretation. Opinion | Fox News? More Like Trump’s Impeachment Shield 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z “Absurd,” “counterproductive,” “flawed,” “illogical” “impractical,” “irresponsible,” “quixotic,” “unworkable” — just some of the words used to assail a plan that would require every Florida business to check the immigration status of new employees through E-Verify. Florida editorial roundup 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Brown faults Taylor for marginalizing himself with a quixotic national campaign and giving too much fodder to his detractors. Analysis | The Daily 202: Sherrod Brown’s 11-year passion project yields a modern-day ‘Profiles in Courage’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z During his short-lived, quixotic campaign, Mr. Sanford made it clear he did not support the impeachment inquiry unfolding on Capitol Hill. Mark Sanford Drops Trump Primary Challenge: ‘You’ve Got to Be a Realist’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z On the one hand, the prospect of such a summit, on the eve of September 11th, seemed quixotic and unseemly. The Shattered Afghan Dream of Peace 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z He let major inventions, such as the phonograph and motion pictures, languish, but poured resources into quixotic projects — notably, a New Jersey iron mine, to the despair of family and associates. Edison and the shadow side of artificial light 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Lee’s quixotic efforts to drag multiplexes into the next dimension have forged an off-putting visual artifice that makes it nearly impossible to get lost in a film — or even just get into it. Ang Lee puts Will Smith through a digital wringer in Gemini Man 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z For years, Branson has been pushing a quixotic vision for the future, where his spacecraft would ferry passengers off Earth as frequently as airplanes. How much does a ticket to space cost? Meet the people ready to fly. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Such a view of security is by now so deeply entrenched in Washington — shared by Republicans and Democrats alike — that alternatives are invariably derided as naïve or quixotic. Hypersonic weapons and national (in)security 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Such efforts may seem quixotic, but these suits are part of a larger trend of climate litigation. Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Macron’s most quixotic endeavor, though, may be his effort to win over Russia — and win over Europe to the idea of reassessing its relationship with Moscow. While Washington is checked out, Macron is pushing to lead the Western world 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The gesture was quixotic, because design review board members are allowed to evaluate projects only on their design merits. Many tenants at low-income complex aren’t feeling the big win Sawant claims 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z They are also celebrations of their owners, decorators, designers and architects, who in every case embraced the quixotic without thought of consequences. T’s Design & Luxury Issue: The Hard Way 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z But he’s better known for his quixotic attempts to cleave Washington in half at the Cascades, forming, out of Eastern Washington, “the new state of Liberty.” Why two allies of Washington state Rep. Matt Shea turned on the controversial lawmaker 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He said he was launching his quixotic bid because “nobody in the Republican Party stepped up” despite what he described as deep dismay over Trump’s performance. Ex-Rep. Joe Walsh to challenge Trump in 2020 GOP primary 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Jay Inslee’s single-issue campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination was a quixotic effort from the get-go, noble but doomed, one of the longest shots in this electoral season. Opinion | Jay Inslee’s Lonely Campaign for Climate Change Policy 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “Down and Out” is an unflinching look at brutal behavior among starving people, which makes Ms. Propreat’s self-appointed task of rendering the book “more palatable” rather quixotic. Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The death this year of the perennial presidential candidate ended a quixotic career. Lyndon LaRouche ‘movement’ sets sights on 2020 despite quixotic candidate’s death 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In a crowded, historically diverse field, Delaney is part of a group of white, middle-aged men who are forging ahead with their increasingly quixotic presidential campaigns in spite of a collective lack of support. John Delaney draws 11 people to 2020 event – does he truly think he can win? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The Hawaii Democrat said her campaign will forge ahead in her absence and keep hammering the anti-war message that is the impetus of her quixotic run. Gabbard campaign hits snag with Army National Guard training hiatus 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Passage, by this time, was also running a quixotic campaign for governor of Oklahoma as a libertarian, and he’d hired Dial to run his campaign after they met at Walmart. The trouble with tigers in America 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Somewhat paradoxically, this makes him an idealist for pragmatism, a quixotic proponent of slaying real dragons instead of chasing windmills. John Hickenlooper thinks Americans want a pragmatic president. Will Democratic primary voters agree? 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Without that kind of open and honest dialogue, the prospect of building vibrant communities with an abundance of housing choice for individuals across the income spectrum will remain a quixotic and unachievable ideal. Opinion | We need more housing. Local governments are standing in the way. 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z He once threatened reporters with execution in a moment that displayed his quixotic sense of humor rather than real intent. Thai coup leader uses ballot box to stay as prime minister 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Montgomery is trying to filter it all - Jimmie’s quixotic, heartbreaking crusade and the confounding city around him - into a play. Review: ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ a soulful lament 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z But when she got up to resume, she was turned around, and in a quixotic search for the trail, Eller fractured her leg. A woman vanished for 16 days in a Maui forest. Then a search helicopter made a pass. 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Gravel, whose quixotic anti-war campaign has garnered scant attention in the news media, accused the DNC of shutting him out. Bill de Blasio and Michael Bennet, 2020 Democrats, battle for final debate stage podium 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Rep. Moulton will have to maintain a holding pattern until Baker quits or disgraces himself, so he may as well run a quixotic campaign for president and raise his profile back home. Why is everyone running for president? It’s a billion-dollar industry. 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z With a growing manifest, and perhaps a quixotic faith in the future, SpaceX was looking to expand. The Florida Space Coast is bouncing back with help from SpaceX, Boeing and Blue Origin 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Mike Gravel, the former Alaska senator who ran a quixotic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, is at it again. Who will take on Trump in 2020? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Montana Gov. Steve Bullock jumped into the 2020 presidential race Tuesday, becoming the latest Democrat to forgo an easier Senate bid in favor of a quixotic run for the White House. 2020 Democrats shun Senate for long-shot White House bids 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z After Donald Trump’s election, the former governor rejoined the Republican Party, and yesterday, the 73-year-old candidate decided to launch a quixotic challenge against a sitting president who enjoys strong support from his party’s far-right base. 'America deserves better': Former GOP governor to take on Trump 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The former Alaska senator Mike Gravel, a quixotic 88-year-old candidate seeking to make the debates and challenge party orthodoxy, tied attacks on Omar to his view of the bankruptcy of US foreign policy: Ilhan Omar: how Democrats responded to Trump's 9/11 attack 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The romantic anglophile in me even has a soft spot for this audacious, quixotic decision. What does the rest of Europe think about our Brexit shambles? 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z And voters — those quixotic folks who keep installing one party in power, just to swap it for the other, in rapid succession — influence events, even though they are nearly absent from this book. Review | In this portrait of Congress, lawmakers’ ambition breeds dysfunction 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z And that is what makes the quixotic search for Alford’s permanent replacement worse than any single defeat, that there is no individual who is entirely responsible for this mess — no simple solution. UCLA athletic department looks weak in failed pursuit of basketball coach Jamie Dixon 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump faces at least a quixotic challenge in the Republican primaries from William F. Weld, a moderate former governor of Massachusetts, and other Republicans have toyed with entering the race. Trump’s Takeover of the Republican Party Is Almost Complete 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Of all the world’s hopeless causes, however, this may be the most quixotic. Opinion | The Notre Dame mom’s ‘no leggings’ plea may be the world’s most quixotic cause 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z He’s demonstrated a commitment to quixotic projects -- an entire album of Handsome Family covers and another inspired by the Los Angeles River. Andrew Bird’s ‘My Finest Work Yet’ isn’t afraid to celebrate discomfort 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Despite widespread public condemnation and scientific ridicule, he persisted in this quixotic effort for the remainder of his life. William Happer Courts the Trump Administration 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z But, he says he would not participate in a “quixotic” attempt to unseat the president. Former Vermont governor to end run as town moderator 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z It also led to him making a quixotic run for Denver mayor in 1993. Former Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper joins presidential race 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s official: At least one bold but quixotic Republican will run against President Trump in next year’s GOP presidential primaries. Trump’s Republican challengers: In it, but maybe not to win it 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Instead he plans to continue his quixotic quest to increase his own tax rate, even as it places him at odds with so many of his affluent peers. They’re Rich and They’re Mad About Taxes (Too Low!) 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z If Trump runs for re-election and is beaten, he will be beaten by a Democrat, not by a quixotic independent. Trump set a low bar for other deluded billionaires flirting with a 2020 run | Jill Abramson 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Here on Earth, the quixotic, expensive quest for controlled fusion reactions gets a lot of hype and a lot of hate. Can AI help crack the code of fusion power? 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z But they can act as spoilers, and the professional consensus is that if Schultz puts his massive fortune to work on this quixotic misadventure, he could end up sabotaging the Democrats' chance of unseating Trump: Howard Schultz's amateur-hour politics: Please God, not another egotistical billionaire 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z This means less time wasted on quixotic legislative efforts, like the Obamacare repeal effort, and more time for appointments. Mitch McConnell Got Everything He Wanted. But at What Cost? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Humiliations in neo-imperialist ventures abroad, followed by the rolling calamity of Brexit at home, have cruelly exposed the bluff of what Hannah Arendt called the “quixotic fools of imperialism.” Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Democrats might come aboard if Trump gives up his quixotic quest for a border wall and makes legal residency for the Dreamers part of the bargain. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Is Romney going to fight for American values, or is he going to use his influence to engage in a quixotic battle to teach Trump better manners? Romney vs. Trump: If Utah’s New Senator Is Serious, He Should Be Running for President 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Former New Jersey state Sen. Raymond Lesniak began the effort to legalize sports betting there 10 years ago with what at the time seemed like a quixotic lawsuit against the federal government. Sports betting will be no home run for state budgets 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Technology investors like company CEOs to sound farsighted and a little quixotic. Ford's newest models won't just run on hot air 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z By the time Mr. Austin began his quixotic quest to revive the historic rose, millions of hybrid teas were produced annually for consumers in Europe and the United States. David Austin, plant breeder who restored fragrance and romance to the rose, dies at 92 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Scandal and pathos abound in Mabel’s passionate, quixotic romance with Dickinson’s brother; her fraught relationship with his wife; and Millicent’s battle over the rights to Dickinson’s writings. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Its cause celebre was a quixotic crusade to free “Padania”, a notional northern territory stretching from Umbria to the South Tyrol, from the fiscal demands of “Roma ladrona” – “thieving Rome”. 'Italians first': how the populist right became Italy's dominant force 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z On other levels, the pieces became more quixotic, because music captures character only vaguely. Review: One pianist, 32 super-short pieces of music and the memory of the late, great Steven Stucky 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Mendelson said that while he supported disclosure of who spends money to influence elections, the broader quest to limit money’s influence in politics was quixotic. D.C. Council approves sweeping reforms to combat ‘pay-to-play’ politics 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Though it seemed like a quixotic mission in the beginning, he believed rowing was a good geographical fit. Orange Coast College's David Grant receives rowing's top U.S. award 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z To others, it's a mess: a quixotic, fractured collection of songs that fails as often as it soars. The White Album 'slaps you in the face' 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It had been criticized by some as a vanity project, and Allen as another billionaire with lofty, quixotic ambitions in space. Paul Allen spent years building the world’s biggest airplane. He’ll never see it fly. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In the little spare time he has, he wages a quixotic campaign of complaint, ever ready to tilt at sloppy reporting, bias, or wilful sensationalism in the British press’s coverage of Muslims. One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “Beto’s campaign was always built on a myth, and he’s taken $70 million from liberals all over the country to launch a quixotic adventure. It’s been a vanity play.” Beto O’Rourke Attacks Ted Cruz as ‘Dishonest’ in Debate in Senate Race 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Still, some wonder if his self-funded operation, isolated from the rigors of academic interaction, is a quixotic adventure. Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Employees are bound by outdated hierarchies and quixotic management targets. Laughing, Crying, and Worrying About the N.H.S. 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z It seemed a quixotic idea, a romantic folly. An Ex-Owner of the Dodgers Takes Another Swing in Marseille 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Valliere called the Republican effort “quixotic,” particularly given the short amount of legislative time remaining this fall. GOP's latest tax-cut bill won't pass, but it could roil midterms in high-tax states like California 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In elements of his platform and the temperature of the fan fever, O’Rourke’s campaign perhaps echoes Bernie Sanders’ tilt at the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, which rapidly evolved from quixotic to credible. Beto O'Rourke: Texas Democrat gains ground in battle for Lone Star state 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z At the moment, the group’s new effort seems both quixotic and timely. After 17 years of war, a peace movement grows in Afghanistan 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The complaint is the latest bid in a quixotic quest to get courts to recognize animals as plaintiffs, something supporters and critics alike say would be revolutionary. A horse was neglected by its owner. Now the horse is suing. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z ISIS, for example, did not exist when the U.S. launched its quixotic “war on terror,” yet it now operates in countries around the world, including Afghanistan. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Their attacks tend to be quixotic and they usually die in a hail of automatic weapon fire. Kashmir’s War Gets Smaller, Dirtier and More Intimate 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s often a quixotic quest, since presidents rarely boil down their foreign-policy visions — if they even have them — to some pithy essence. The Flight 93 doctrine 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Just as New Jersey pioneered the quixotic development of the coasts, it is leading an acceptance of what it wrought. Surrendering to Rising Seas 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It might have gone to a noble cause, but almost certainly not to something as ambitious and quixotic — or as dangerous — as the promotion of liberal values and democracy. George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z There are outliers: Mad Max: Fury Road, plagued by quixotic, behind-the-scenes horror stories before release and plagued by confidence-busting lawsuits after the fact, turned out to be an Oscar-worthy masterstroke. We will never see a movie like The Dark Knight again 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Translocation is a bold, quixotic, expensive and logistically complicated approach to saving wildlife. Eight rare rhinos were moved to help their species. It went horribly wrong. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Formidable discipline, an analytical brain, used to winning – so why now gallop around on an impeachment crusade that many allies consider quixotic, counter-productive and doomed? Is Tom Steyer the progressive answer to the Koch brothers? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Call it quixotic, but I want to row back against this tide. This photo of people taking photos haunts me 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z He is a dreamer, possessed either of quixotic charm or the gab of a charlatan, depending on your point of view and, to an extent, on today’s result. World Cup 2018 semi-final: France v Belgium – live! 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The Kansas-based company has been propped up by Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, whose commitment to Sprint has even caused some to wonder whether he’s more quixotic than visionary. T-Mobile’s argument for Sprint deal is as loud as CEO John Legere’s style 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Among the fans I spoke to, one major thread emerged: a wariness of information and a sense that trying to find the truth is a quest that’s quixotic at best. The gospel of Elon Musk, according to his flock 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z This endeavor will strike many of the administration’s critics as quixotic. Pompeo on What Trump Wants 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Soccer, as played in its mother country, remained primitive in technique and tactically complacent, with an emphasis on moral fibre that had begun to look increasingly quixotic. How We Watch Soccer Now 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But their quest for maintaining roster depth is quixotic and constant. Dodgers getting the Max-imum from second-chance offer to Muncy 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s a major boost to Musk’s quixotic tunneling project, and the strongest validation from a city government to date. Elon Musk’s Boring Company approved to build high-speed transit between downtown Chicago and O’Hare Airport 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Scepticism about what many considered to be a quixotic idea continued even after Caesar’s first triumphant run in London. 'People scoffed at it!' The unstoppable all-female Shakespeare uprising 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z His current venture may be his most quixotic, given that Maryland Democrats have only twice nominated gubernatorial candidates who had never held public office. Alec Ross: Tech guru sets his sights on new horizon, becoming Maryland governor 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet the notion that a do-over on Brexit would come about because of the pleas of a French intellectual — or Brussels Eurocrats or wealthy outsiders or European newspaper columnists — seems quixotic at best. Europeans haven’t given up hope that Britain will change its mind on Brexit 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Amid the swirl of idealism, it’s easy to forget the present-day problems Whether these quixotic questions are answered doesn’t really matter, although it’s likely that some will be. Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting will decide Elon Musk’s future 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But it was not an entirely quixotic quest – as he traveled across west Texas, he conducted multiple Facebook Live streams, each drawing thousands of viewers. The Texas Democrat hoping to unseat Ted Cruz, one county at a time 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Cox, a businessman who mounted a quixotic bid for the presidency in 2008, is not considered much of a threat in a general election. Huge challenges for Democrats in California as they eye control of the House in midterms 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Plus: Before Cox was Trump’s choice for governor, he was on a quixotic mission to remake California’s Legislature. Essential California: Homelessness numbers dip in L.A. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The Gadsden Times says there’s another quixotic legal battle brewing in Alabama: Alabama editorial roundup 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The effort may have seemed quixotic, but the regents heard her story. UC Berkeley student's persistence helps win more liberal rules for in-state tuition 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Like so much else in Schumann, his rhythms have a quixotic peculiarity easily explained as clumsiness, a broken mind-body connection somewhere along the line. Dudamel untangles the strangeness of Schumann's symphonies 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Ted Kennedy waged a somewhat quixotic bid to unseat President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Democratic primary, and he, too, changed his party. Perspective | Why the GOP needs someone — anyone — to challenge Trump in 2020 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “I do not run for office as some sort of quixotic endeavor,” she said. Black, Female and Running for Governor: Can She Win in the South? 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z On March 31, Mr. Pashinyan, 42, a balding man with a salt-and-pepper beard and slight paunch, began a quixotic walk across central Armenia to protest an effort by the president to skirt term limits. He Was a Protester a Month Ago. Now, Nikol Pashinyan Leads Armenia. 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z So many were surprised this week when Painter threw off his cloak of neutrality and announced a quixotic campaign for the Senate – as a Democrat. Bush lawyer Richard Painter runs for Senate as a Democrat against Trump 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z In a quixotic bid last week, Russia urged citizens studying in “unfriendly countries” to return to the motherland and trade their coveted foreign education for one from a top Russian school. Frustrated at visa holdup, Russians give up on American vacations 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z For those who have forgotten the history of that particular phrase, the “Trump Train” began early in the campaign as a quixotic rallying cry. The Man Behind the President’s Tweets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z At the magazine, his stories ranged from a 6,000-word account of Jackie Robinson’s 1947 breakthrough on the baseball diamond to a quixotic tale of his two-year search for chess prodigy Bobby Fischer. William Nack, prizewinning sportswriter and bard of Secretariat, dies at 77 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Ready Player One’s quixotic ideas about the future of online life are not unique, because nothing is unique to Ready Player One. If you want to know how we ended up in a cyber dystopia, read Ready Player One 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Tesla was a quixotic venture, a niche electric car company in a nation addicted to gas. The man who sent his sports car into space 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z In the time before her return to media center stage, she had been a busy presence, exhibiting a mind susceptible to conspiracy theories and quixotic readings of the president's intentions. 'Roseanne' riles everyone up: Just like old times 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Many of Cantu’s ideas were quixotic at best, or beset by problems that meant they eventually ended up discarded. The life and death of Homaro Cantu, the genius chef who wanted to change the world 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Gearing up: “California billionaire Tom Steyer’s quixotic effort to unseat Trump could lay the groundwork for his own White House run, operatives say.” Essential California: A fight with the EPA over fuel economy looms 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Ready Player One’s quixotic ideas about the future of online life aren’t unique, because nothing is unique to Ready Player One. If you want to know how we ended up in a cyber dystopia, read Ready Player One 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Mark Ellen, a music press stalwart, described the paper's big beasts in The Independent as "quixotic firebrands and towering egomaniacs drunk on their own power and ubiquity". NME: End of an era of excess, drugs and rock 'n' roll 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Why did I think I was qualified to tell the on-screen story of Wright’s quixotic L.A. work, so different in style and structural logic from the famous Prairie houses he produced in the Midwest? How I tried to crack the mysterious case of Frank Lloyd Wright's Los Angeles houses 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Instead, we’re lucky a quixotic antitrust lawsuit helped to stop that from happening. The Case Against Google 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In 2015, Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan,” about one man’s quixotic quest to save his house from demolition, was also up for an Academy Award. Review | Oscar-nominated movie ‘Loveless’ is a grim, pitiless gaze at present-day Russia 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Next Garland wrote Sunshine, a bleak space drama evoking Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris, about a quixotic mission to rescue humanity by restarting the flickering sun. Alex Garland Stands by His Vision for ‘Annihilation’ 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Tesla was a quixotic venture, a niche electric car company in a nation addicted to petrol. The man who sent his sports car into space 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z And the more time that passes, and the more quixotic his path to glory, the worse it gets. Tiger Fatigue Syndrome, or Why I Want Woods' Comeback to Fail - Golf Digest 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Colleagues note that the shutdown shows how Gutierrez's position — once viewed by his colleagues as quixotic and fringe — was adopted by the mainstream of the Democratic Party within just a few months. How one Chicago Democrat’s shutdown fight reveals the Democratic Party’s coming struggle 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Houston has hosted international fixtures and was even proposed last year as the site for a quixotic Pro14 expansion. Houston? No problem – SaberCats bullish about latest US pro venture 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It doesn’t totally work, but it was the quixotic shot in the arm that I needed to keep me awake during an unusually somnolent auto show. Nissan’s Xmotion SUV is rugged on the streets, zen in the sheets 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z After years of assaults on the Internal Revenue Service budget and quixotic attempts by House conservatives to impeach its commissioner, Republicans have decided the beleaguered agency needs more money. In shift, GOP eyes more funding for IRS to implement new tax law 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Back home, some friends suggested the time had come to end the quixotic journey and avoid further injuries. After 17 years, couple finish Appalachian Trail at age 74,75 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Lest anyone believe it is always quixotic to even try to influence the federal government, we cite the case of several Forest Service campgrounds near Baker City. Editorials from around Oregon 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z As long as that is true, foreign oil producers and traders will be leery of committing capital to a market that adds quixotic regulatory and currency risk to an already volatile game. China’s Bid to Dominate Oil Pricing Will Fail 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Despite his ineptness, or perhaps because of it, I found myself rooting for him and his quixotic project. Review | For better or worse, we’re all related 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Trump asked, making a quixotic and ultimately failed bid for black votes to a nearly all-white crowd. On eve of Trump visit, Mississippi blacks say he’s brought back troubles of the past 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It might seem that because no existing drug cures glioblastoma, Fine’s quest to find a compound that eradicates cancer in a brain organoid must be quixotic. Brain Organoids Get Cancer, Too, Opening a New Frontier in Personalized Medicine 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z After a quixotic year and a half, Osweiler returned to his one-time role as the Broncos’ starter. After years of neglect, the Saints’ defense might get Drew Brees back to playoffs 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z One of the greatest moments of her life, she said, was attending her election night celebration, which she had called a “victory party” only because of her campaign’s quixotic hope. Democrats in this state are doing something unusual: Winning their elections 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z I'm well aware that the desire for a traditional headphone jack is viewed by many as backwards-looking — if not quixotic — but not having one is still a near-daily hassle for many. Google Pixel 2 review: plainly great 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Virginia and Maryland weren’t quite as creative as Stonecrest and Kansas City, but they were indeed quixotic. Hey, Amazon, look at Northern Virginia 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Hoffman was eventually persuaded to participate, and his spry, quixotic performance is, like the movie itself, both comic and deeply felt. Noah Baumbach, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler make 'The Meyerowitz Stories' a family affair 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z |
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