Quixote
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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This has been such a great few years for retellings of the classics — from Barbara Kingsolver’s updated David Copperfield to Salman Rushdie’s zany Don Quixote.
From Los Angeles Times
But he’s more of a Don Quixote tilting at windmills because his solutions amount to the same level of self-delusion.
From Salon
On a recent Saturday in July, as the sun set behind East L.A. club Don Quixote, a line of black-clothed and face-pierced youths chattered excitedly outside the venue.
From Los Angeles Times
Bertie and Jeeves, as the British essayist Alexander Cockburn once asserted, are a pairing as momentous in literary history as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, or Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
From Los Angeles Times
“When the Going Was Good” is at its best when Carter is the underdog biting at ankles, or a Don Quixote who learns to tilt at the right windmills.
From Los Angeles Times
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