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Перевод: quixotic

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донкихотский

Тезаурус:

1. If so, we are dealing with a more Quixotic, romantic or principled figure than some of us used to think.
2. Wild eclecticism has been the hallmark of Boyd's 30-year career as record producer, failed film mogul and quixotic entrepreneur.
3. Eliot's vision, which gives him his sympathies with "neo-agrarians", however "quixotic,, is a vision to counter the modern paganism of economic determinists whose theory has become "a god before whom we fall down and worship with all kinds of music".
4. It could be argued that Darras' vision is quixotic.
5. It might be quixotic, it might be full of contradictions and loopholes (how will the traffic flow if the ring road is downgraded as Holyoak plans? why save the Rotunda, when trying to recreate a traditional city centre?), but it does recognise that a city centre works best when it is the sum of a number of interrelated parts.
6. IAN Gow, the Conservative member for Eastbourne, is famed for three things: a doglike devotion to the Prime Minister, a deadpan sense of humour, and his quixotic resignation as housing minister because he disapproved of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
7. In fact there is no grip, it's all drift, in this sequence, as illness brings back Stepan's childhood Church Slavonic, mixed up with Quixotic politesse and flagrant falsifying of his own past, and cant about the Russian soul.
8. For more than a year, the Poles have been engaged in a brave, almost quixotic attempt to transform a moribund command economy into a lively free market, and they are now suffering the growing pains of a capitalism devoid of capital.
9. In fact it is only with Mr Golyadkin very near the beginning of his writing career, and with Stepan Verkhovensky towards the end, that Quixotic features of courtesy and romance become prominent.
10. Arrival has no reality in the updated, transposed Quixotic journeying whereby the forward-tilting existential present of The Double is rephrased in The Possessed .
11. In politics Charles Dilke had referred to "Greater Britain" and Joseph Chamberlain to Imperial Unity, while the quixotic Lord Rosebery, with his usual flair for vacuous terms, demanded "Efficiency" in government, education and industry.
12. Some leaders spoke out against the new trend; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners.
13. The Fifties was a great time for moral stands, at least on this subject, accompanied by high-level debate and quixotic, brave, sometimes eccentric gestures of persuasion.