And yet, I persist in this quixotic endeavor.

This project might have seemed quixotic a few years ago, but now it fits the times perfectly.

Nonetheless, Europe has continued to pursue its quixotic course, even without a global treaty on reducing carbon emissions.

Russia s leaders have earned a reputation for being unreliable, quixotic, and unpredictable, but markets like trustworthiness, stability, and predictability.

They cannot continue to sit on the sidelines. Washington s quixotic decision to call Israel s unilateral move part of the road map has failed to convince many Palestinians.

Russia s leaders have earned a reputation for being unreliable, quixotic, and unpredictable, but markets like trustworthiness, stability, and predictability. Not surprisingly, foreign investors no longer favor Putin s Russia.

But, as with its 1991 financial crisis, India was able to emerge with a revamped foreign policy one that abandoned the country s quixotic traditions and embraced greater realism and pragmatism.

My own efforts to advance the cause of UN reform when I was Australia s foreign minister were about as quixotic and unproductive as anything I have ever tried to do.

We know that in the absence of democracy and, therefore, in the absence of the institutions and structures of the rule of law, the protection of human rights would be quixotic and ineffectual, especially in my country.