quixotic

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Synonyms for quixotic

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not sensible about practical matters

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Spurred in part by the inevitable quixotry of this epic undertaking and in part by a no less chimerical desire to return to his origins, Downey then went to live for a year among the Yanomami.
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The abstract utopia is not possible, so it constitutes fantasy or what he calls "quixotry" after the divine ravings of Don Quixote.
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Martina Navratilova says many of the players pass the time by playing Scrabble but I doubt if Miss Williams or Miss Sharapova could come up with big-scoring words like Quixotry or Demythologizing.
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Don Quijote lives in the poem, not in his fictional quixotry but in the faith of his vocation, and he supplies for the protagonist of Cantico an example of enduring human fulfilment.
Heroic vocation: Cervantes, Guillen, and 'Noche del Caballero.'
The quixotry came out when I inquired whether he had any message for Jews and Israelis who supported Palestinian rights but feared Palestinian irredentism.
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