quixotry

What would be the purpose of this exercise in quixotry?"

But to live there means also the opportunity to vote for a particular party, whose quixotry and honesty have touched me.

Now, through a mixture of romantic quixotry and sheer folly he had lost it all.

I ought to admit my venture was sheer quixotry and slink home.

Anyhow, this piece of Quixotry on your father's part, as it was unjust in itself, has brought forth a monstrous family of injustices.

"Whereas you imagine Fireball, in my person, can arm you for this quixotry whose very meaning you don't know?

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He had an uncle who was head of an important business far down-town; but Gissing, with the quixotry of youth, was determined to make his own start in the great world of commerce.

But 'might-have-been' is the most poignant and fruitless of all sentiments, and I could not denigrate Leslie's individualistic choice of combat, nor dismiss as quixotry his response to vision in the conduct of the war.

When an Austrian general who had flogged women in the conquered provinces appeared in the London streets, some common draymen off a cart behaved with the direct quixotry of Sir Lancelot or Sir Galahad.

Most of all, perhaps, it was the unique artistic means used to configure their flowering quixotry: suitcase sentences enclosed in packing-crate paragraphs, the contents of each in ruminative and comic argument among themselves and with the author, whose whims are as much to be questioned as theirs, and who argues right back.