| 单词 | quixotically |
| 例句 | Some state legislators from northern Virginia’s affluent suburbs have argued that this is a form of geographic discrimination and have quixotically proposed bills to outlaw it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But the filmmakers, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, are too sympathetic to the cause and to those who fought quixotically to keep it alive for parenthetical sniping. Television Review | 'The Senators? Bargain': On HBO2, ?Grand? Legislation Goes Wrong 2010-03-23T21:40:00Z It is also trying — valiantly, perhaps quixotically — to stem it. Critic’s Notebook: Nintendo’s Wii U, With New Touch-Screen Controller 2012-11-15T12:55:00Z And structure is where, quixotically, McPhee decides to begin this collection. Hunt for a Good Beginning. Then Write It. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z One rider that he befriended, Eric Miller, introduced him around and they began to conceive, a little quixotically, of a movie. ‘Concrete Cowboy’ shows Philadelphia’s Black cowboy culture 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z But specialist cassette labels, which have boomed over the last two years, are born out of choice rather than necessity, quixotically running off limited-edition tapes on stacks of secondhand decks. Return of the audio cassette 2010-03-29T20:00:00Z Qualities such as “ever quixotically proud,” assuming they existed, would seem unlikely to be racial in origin. Thomas Mann, Guilty Pleasures and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “Roseanne” didn’t have a writers room; it had joke rooms and story rooms, the better to accommodate Ms. Barr’s habit of bringing writers on as quixotically as she fired them. ‘Last Man Standing’ Uses an Experienced Stable of Writers 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The solution, in their view, is not to try, quixotically, to abolish constraints, but to acknowledge their presence, and embrace them proactively. Oulipo: freeing literature by tightening its rules 2013-07-12T09:34:37Z Handsome and tall, he was the charismatic dreamer, a “Royal Tenenbaum,” of a patriarch, as his son describes it, quixotically leading his family on its various capers. Reckoning with an Upbringing in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of a Family, With ‘Two of Every Race’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z In the wider world, Baker has quixotically devoted himself to lost causes. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z Carter sought elected office for the first time in 1962, “somewhat quixotically,” he recalled. Jimmy Carter: White House rise depended on twists before ’76 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Still, a 91 recyclability rate percent is not 100 percent, and in recent years, the packaging industry has invested millions of dollars in reducing — or more quixotically, eliminating — further waste from the box-making process. Cardboard Has Taken Over Our Lives. Where Does It Come From? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Me, I’d root quixotically for an antiquated meaning of “charger,” a valiant warhorse, like Lochinvar’s steed, certainly a more engaging character than a bolt of electricity. Los Angeles, land of the misnamed sports teams 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z For nearly two decades, he and other activists had been pushing – sometimes quixotically – to end Florida’s longstanding policy of preventing anyone with a felony conviction from voting. How Republicans gutted the biggest voting rights victory in recent history 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The more he thrashes around the deeper he sinks, quixotically abandoning his withdrawal agreement bill just as it won a 30-vote majority. Even if the Tories win an election, they’ll be finished | Polly Toynbee 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z One of those cherished freedoms is the right to tilt quixotically at windmill giants - or in Ferebee’s case, septic tank laws. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z While modern tech geeks covet the latest novelties—brighter! faster! newer!—these dogged audiophiles are quixotically focused on tracking down the right thing. Addicted to Audio: Why Music Obsessives Blow Their 401Ks Chasing Down Vintage Gear 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Both the original settlers and those who, over the subsequent centuries, have quixotically tried to trace them seem equally deluded. The tale of the “Lost Colony” is a chronicle of delusion 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Both made their situation worse by trying, quixotically, to prop up exchange rates. Africa’s economies are turning a corner 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Improbably—some might say quixotically—and definitely idealistically, for the past two decades he has focused on the world of golf. ‘Don’t You Think Golf Can Use Any Dose of Coolness It Can Get?’ - Golf Digest 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s yet another entry in the ongoing love-hate relationship between players and a developer that quixotically attempts to keep those fans from burning its community to the ground. Destiny 2 fans are already revolting over Bungie’s latest business model decision 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It is a pity you can’t invest in it without risking money on the other parts of quixotically managed media group Vivendi. Investors Need Patience to Invest in the Music Industry’s Recovery 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Nor was she especially good, in the sense of having a dependable inclination to virtue; she was quixotically loving, not steadily charitable: mutable, not dependable: given to infatuation, prey to impulse. The princess myth: Hilary Mantel on Diana 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Born of figs and fury, the self-cleaning house now exists in public memory only in dreams — much as it did for so long in Ms. Gabe’s mind: dewy with mist, quixotically clean. Frances Gabe, Inventor of the Self-Cleaning House, Dies at 101 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The damage will continue as long as the GOP is quixotically bent on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Opinion | Stop singing, Democrats. The health-care vote isn’t good for you, or anyone else. 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z From the moment he first appears in the new film “The Comedian” as the washed-up stand-up Jackie Burke — quixotically self-loathing, unapologetically hacky, at times ferociously funny — Robert De Niro's presence poses a question. For Robert De Niro, fears of obsolescence, channeled into ‘The Comedian’ and constant work 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z More than the content of the cleric’s answers, however, it was his manner that left a mark on the group: modest, authoritative and quixotically humorous. ‘It’s not like Argo’: the trials of a tour guide in Iran 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Some in tech hope, however quixotically, that the silhouette of the area’s Bay Bridge on Warriors jerseys can create some solidarity between techie and non-tech resident alike. How The Golden State Warriors Courted Silicon Valley -- And Why The Love Is Mutual 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He’s proceeded since with the same disregard for the GOP establishment, at times maneuvering quixotically in the Senate to mount an aggressive opposition to President Barack Obama. White House Brief: Things to know about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z We thought – quixotically – that businesses and governments might think about this when considering trade arrangements with the world’s second largest economy. Strange Chinese Appetites Driving Wildlife Toward Extinction 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Its distorted economy invests in nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, while Kim quixotically builds ski resorts and amusement parks. North Korea's Kim Jong Un Aims Charm Offensive at United Nations Sanctions 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The activists who blocked the expressway now quixotically hope to save pieces of the ramps for a monument. Arboretum’s ramps to nowhere mark successful freeway revolt 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z They hoped, perhaps quixotically, that after filing their lawsuit, other parishes and levee boards across the state would join the effort, with the goal of achieving a larger settlement with the entire industry. The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z That made Mr. Kemp quixotically heroic to some on the right and foolish to others. Rand Paul’s pursuit of black voters splits GOP 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z "Candidly, it also just struck me as funny to engage in one of these quixotically ambitious, eternally revised projects from the game's eye view." 'The Magic Circle' could be the best fake remake of a game that never existed 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Somewhat quixotically, he sought the Democratic nomination for senator from Massachusetts in 1978 in order to oppose the Republican incumbent, Edward W. Brooke III, a defender of Great Society programs. Howard J. Phillips Dies, 72; Stalwart Conservative 2013-04-24T03:01:39Z The plant and animal life varies quixotically from plot to plot, as the new species entrench themselves, mustering strength, before fighting for additional territory. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z His honour had not carried him so quixotically far as to erase the hieroglyphics at the head of the paper. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z “You will have to, you know,” she said quixotically. Carmen Ariza That he was an ardent musician, an artist in the truest and deepest sense, of a quixotically generous and unselfish nature—all this I had already proved. The First Violin A Novel But zero is woman inexplicable—something fantastically loyal or shiveringly perfidious, savagely cruel or quixotically self-sacrificing, something that is primitive, non-moral and resolved to win at all costs. The Education of Eric Lane It is difficult to manage with people who are as quixotically straight as you are," she said, after a pause; "I want you to keep away for your own sake. The Time of Roses He was aimlessly industrious, crotchety but kind, and almost quixotically honest. The Job An American Novel Major Muir, who commanded at Brownston, instead of waiting for the attack, quixotically went out to meet his adversaries. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 But living in the East so long has made him quixotically patriotic. Set in Silver And you are deliberately and quixotically risking it, and I allow you to risk it, because a girl's happiness hangs in the balance! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man It would have been nothing more than a quixotically honourable waste of life ending in one only possible way. With Botha in the Field He had fooled her—quixotically fooled her, it is true—but fooled her as never woman had been fooled in the world before. Jaffery If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory; let us fight against it quixotically. Tragic Sense Of Life In the treatment of a criminal it is almost quixotically humane. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala He's just the man he always was—brave, of course, quixotically chivalrous, a light weight. Westways Again and again he quixotically charged the bole of the tree, no doubt thinking it to be myself in a new shape. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Lord Howick, indeed, most quixotically deals with adverse exchanges; he disposes of them summarily, and in a style that must have astonished the people on 'Change. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 I must say Mark has behaved extremely well about it, even quixotically. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story The majority considered that King had been almost quixotically conscientious in stripping himself; but there did not lack those who accused him of sharp practice. The Gray Dawn Meanwhile his friends were either exasperated at his folly in reviving the old scandal, or quixotically enthusiastic over his demand for justice. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill And yet he had behaved well, even quixotically. Gallegher and Other Stories He was not ashamed of being unaffectedly emotional, and he was not vaporous or quixotically sentimental. At Large In spite of my desire to amass riches, there are some suits against the Northeastern which I have—somewhat quixotically—refused. Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete I was being, from my point of view, almost quixotically generous; yet with one glance she could make me feel like a bully and a brute. The Firefly of France |
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