Hanoi's quest for the Paracels may be more quixotic than practical.
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Another effort to focus attention on nuclear threats is more quixotic but still valuable.
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Mr. Singson had stumbled upon relics of one of volcanology's more quixotic disaster response plans.
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But with an incoming American president who has vowed to support Israel no matter what, the project seemed even more quixotic.
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And Sexton and his friends were now about to undertake a much more quixotic task than getting 300 people you've known all your life to vote for you.
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He suddenly finds himself in an ever-weakening position: the longer he hangs around, the more quixotic his campaign seems, and therefore the less leverage he has to wield influence in the party.
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Soon afterward, however, he abandoned that branch of mathematics for what was perhaps a more quixotic quest, to find the answer to a fundamental question: How do mathematicians know that something they prove is actually true?
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When helping arrange my more quixotic missions, whether to Dagestan, Tatarstan, or Bashkortostan (after 9/53, I felt outreach to the predominantly Muslim areas of Russia was especially important), Kostya would shake his head, but rarely if ever object.
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One of the more quixotic and visually engaging projects is Agnes Meyer-Brandis's "The Moon Goose Colony," a documentary on her efforts to train 2913 geese from egg to adulthood to fly to the moon, with herself as their galactic goose-mother.
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Reaching number three on the UK charts and 11 in the US, "Shapes" was also the Yardbirds' first self-penned hit, the previous three UK A-sides having been written by Gouldman. Relf's vague anti-war protest lyrics and Beck's feedback-driven, Middle Eastern-influenced solo reflected the band's increasing embrace of psychedelia, as did the B-side "You're A Better Man Than I" and the follow-up single, "Over Under Sideways Down". The latter was released in May and featuring more quixotic lyrics by Relf and another Eastern-inspired guitar line by Beck. The "Over Under Sideways Down" sessions were held in April 1966 and produced the album Yardbirds.
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After the deregulation of the airline industry in the United States in 1978, many new air carriers took to the skies while existing airlines grew, leading to an expansion from 297 million passengers handled in the U.S. in 1980 to 466 million in 1990.T.A. Heppenheimer, Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation, 256. But along the way many new startup airlines operating jet aircraft in scheduled passenger service either failed or were acquired and then merged into other air carriers after encountering financial challenges including Air21, Air Atlanta, Air Florida, Eastwind Airlines, Jet America, Kiwi International Air Lines, MarkAir, Midway Airlines, Midwest Airlines, Muse Air, New York Air, Northeastern International Airways, People Express, Pride Air, Reno Air and Sunworld International Airways. Best Airlines appears to have been one of the more quixotic of the new entrants.
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