quixotic
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Capturing a moment as it happens is a quixotic dream for any artist, even television producers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Reducing the fear of litigation to get these assets on plan menus makes sense, even if it is a bit quixotic.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Lope de Vega wrote of honor and conflict a few doors down from where Miguel de Cervantes penned the first quixotic quest.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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