quixotic ideal

U2’s long, blockbuster career — 14 studio albums that have sold 170 million copies worldwide, plus 22 Grammys — is rooted in a similar quixotic ideal of trying to fathom big topics like love, faith and community.

Now in its 30th year, SummerStage festival remains the quixotic ideal of New York entertainment for its talented and diverse performers, its luxurious al fresco locales throughout the five boroughs and its reliably giddy audiences.

Reformers must never forget that three legs are a Quixotic ideal; two good legs a genuine one.

How was it that he commanded from all who knew him either a warm sympathy or an involuntary respect, while she— She had gathered from some scraps of the talk round him which had reached her that it was just those sides of his life—those quixotic ideal sides—which were an offence and annoyance to her that touched other people's imagination, opened their hearts.

He was perhaps a trifle handsomer than Euphemia's rather grim Quixotic ideal, but a very few days reconciled her to his good looks as effectually they would have reconciled her to a characterised want of them.