quixotism

Shelby, "but I think you had better think before you undertake such a piece of Quixotism."

For example, coming by the house of a country gentleman, as Father Simon called him, about ten leagues off the city of Nankin, we had first of all the honour to ride with the master of the house about two miles; the state he rode in was a perfect Don Quixotism, being a mixture of pomp and poverty.

I wrung my hands over this absurd piece of Quixotism; but if he was determined on this deed, of course I could not stop him.

In 1976, the Islamist magazine Vesika announced Syria's occupation of Lebanon with the headline "The Don Quixotism of Assad the Alawite"; it described Hafez Al-Assad himself as one whose "Alawism predominated over his Leftism." (28) In 1979, as clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Assad government grew steadily fiercer, many Islamist newspapers and magazines began to feature news stories and opinion columns about Syria.

Not a lot has changed, and the measure of Gilliam's ingenuity is his ability to suggest that Quixotism is a universal, transhistorical condition.

It is a form of Don Quixotism. The key of any successful effort is not what I would like to see happening but what is practically attainable.

This paper proposes to examine this multilingual, postmodern play and to position it in our contemporary discussion of quixotism. Since the seventeenth century, adaptations of Don Quixote have contributed to an exchange of sentiments and ideas--not only in Spain, but also transculturally.

He discusses the application of political and aesthetic approaches to the study of early American novels, focusing on Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry; the deceptive actions of picaresque con men, gothic villains, and sentimental seducers in early American novels, such as Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Arthur Mervyn; Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple, Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive, and Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixotism; the visual arts, including Charles Wilson Peale and Raphaelle Peale's trompe l'oeil deception; and artistic negotiations of deception, sensuous cognition, and art in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

"[To] redress the wrongs of the indigent and the injured is no quixotism, but [rather] a grave and highly honorable duty of the profession." (32) In 1840, Delaware's Justice Harrington observed that "the poor suitor may not have the present means of payment, and this [English common law policy] may deprive him of counsel ....