as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a quixotical attempt to bring live theater to a generation hooked on video games
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Adjective
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How To Meet Halfway As 2019 research from Personality and Individual Differences explains, clashes in cognitive processing can make constructive communication markedly difficult during conflict in romantic relationships.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025 -
After the invisible-car antics of Die Another Day, Daniel Craig's series of turns as Bond brought the franchise back to basics, beginning with 2006's romantic, suspenseful Casino Royale.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The most innovative ideas often seem strange or impractical at first.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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European Army and the EU The nebulous idea of a European military has long floated around, but mostly dismissed as impractical and unnecessary while NATO exists in its current form.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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Or the sudden, quixotic tariffs on Canada and Mexico.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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Tarantino has a quixotic belief about what film can accomplish.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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However, finding a free market that fully embodies this idealistic form of capitalism is difficult.—
Gabrielle Boko,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The 35-year-old actor — who found fame during his 9-season run as Cisco Ramon on The Flash — is back on Broadway after an 11-year absence, leading the company of the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown as the idealistic and open-hearted musician, Orpheus.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The decline comes as Democrats’ ideological wings fight over the best tactics to counter Trump, which, combined with raw political ambition, makes the emerging Democratic 2028 field a wide-open electoral canvass.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
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The scene is straight out of a stratagem by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bertolucci’s mentor), but Palud takes it literally without applying comparable ideological critique to the rest of her film.—
Armond White,
National Review,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Quixotical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixotical. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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