quixotism

But on the other, I'm all in favor of disrupting conventions, of walkouts and quixotism and vainglorious campaigns against insuperable odds.

Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801.

Although on his account are amused the people in the book and those who read him, our hero is not merely comical or ridiculous, on the contrary, he has in himself something sublime and tragic, something "quixotic." This "quixotism"--which the centuries keep alive for us and assert over and over again without cease, which we continuously discover around us and inside our soul--raises from the very beginning a major question.

Aurora Leigh models female readerly identification without employing the tropes of female quixotism: the complete absorption of self within or else the narcissistic projection of self upon literature.

Consequently, we need to be realistic, as opposed to most governments that appear to satisfy themselves with a sort of metaphysical Don Quixotism, or, at least, Sentimentalism; that being a fanciful idealist, without any grounded rationality for valuing PCSS.

Attempting to live up to inflated expectations by transcending entrenched constraints in an era of limits amounts to a kind of presidential Quixotism. The result is an abysmal track record as constitutional and political constraints grind through the conveyor belt of presidential aspirations.

"Why the Wyoming Resolution Had to Be Emasculated: A History and a Quixotism." JAC 11.2 (1991): 269-81.

Tim O'Brien and Robert Stone let themselves be puzzled in Vietnam, and occasionally in the Middle East or Latin America, but it always feels as if the whole journey is a variation on the theme of American Quixotism. In The Poisonwood Bible and The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, another admirable novelist, sends her cast overseas; but they are missionaries of American values, struggling to inculcate them in others (even when they know the consequences) or to be tested by the political environment on which they stumble.

He turned to the law, but a '"student at law' I certainly was not," Webster wrote, "unless 'Alan Ramsay's poems' and 'Female Quixotism' will pass for law books." Trials in those days--some before judges commissioned by George II--were a form of popular entertainment.

"From [Bourdieu's] early concept of Quixotism [from Don Quixote] ...

West, as Hitchens wrote, "had stepped onto the perfect soil for one so quixotic." It was a quixotism born partly of a turbulent love life, that of a woman "whose feminism was above all concerned with the respect for, and the preservation of, true masculinity." How concise, and how astute to pursue that in the Yugoslav context, given the way that sexual violence came to define the savage conflict of the 1990s.

Yet it is not nostalgia that drives Hobza; what seems more apparent is the pleasure she takes in the quixotism of her self-appointed missions.

(2) We intentionally named this process "Quixoteism" in order to differentiate it from the label "Quixotism" typically used in the analysis of the literary character of Don Quixote.