As Mr Lévy quixotically insisted, Britain is better than Brexit. ■
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And structure is where, quixotically, McPhee decides to begin this collection.
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Both made their situation worse by trying, quixotically, to prop up exchange rates.
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He has even tried, quixotically, to get CEOs to stop giving quarterly earnings forecasts.
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Unamuno himself quixotically resisted Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, publicly criticizing him and his supporters.
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The result was an almost quixotically optimistic documentary, This Is the Way I Like It (1985).
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"He laid out the roads quixotically, so they follow the landscape," said Raymond Geselbracht, Bronxville's historian.
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The show brings to mind those supersize sodas sold in movie theaters, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg once quixotically campaigned against.
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Both the original settlers and those who, over the subsequent centuries, have quixotically tried to trace them seem equally deluded.
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The Reagan-Shultz policy allowed the Soviets to quixotically announce victories at home as they made serious concessions in key areas.
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So is this the case of a huge hedge fund quixotically betting it all on a volatility spike in the near future?
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Beneficially, this drove Ghosn to quixotically support the Leaf at a time when there was almost no market for battery-electric vehicles.
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But Thurmond held to a conviction, at times even quixotically, that he could show the haters that the police were no different from those they served.
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He thought — quixotically, perhaps desperately — that by opting for internment he could improve the lot of Japanese-Americans and demonstrate their commitment to the American war effort.
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The quixotically named ID Roomzz is an all-electric SUV with Level 753 autonomous capabilities that is destined for the Chinese market by 2021, the German automaker announced.
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His quixotically rambling, hug-dispensing campaign manner — the conservative columnist John Podhoretz likened him to a "groovy youth minister" — borrows more from Jimmy Carter than from Ronald Reagan.
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It's yet another entry in the ongoing love-hate relationship between players and a developer that quixotically attempts to keep those fans from burning its community to the ground.
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But among the formation of western democrats standing shoulder to shoulder, marching resolutely if quixotically in the name of rules-based international order, one silhouette is missing: President Trump's.
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And yet, quixotically, here we are with this: Through the summer and fall, Trump has steadily ratcheted up the debate about whether U.S. tech firms are intentionally and illegitimately suppressing conservative viewpoints.
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While a lot of D can be a blessing for many PMs, it can also be their undoing when they become quixotically attached to their conviction despite overwhelming market evidence to the contrary.
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Critically, however, the vast majority of rogue elected Republicans stopped short of endorsing Clinton, sometimes promising to vote for a third party—or, even more quixotically, writing in VP nominee Mike Pence's name.
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Born of figs and fury, the self-cleaning house now exists in public memory only in dreams — much as it did for so long in Ms. Gabe's mind: dewy with mist, quixotically clean.
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Instead, he suggests, somewhat quixotically, that those unifying effects can be re-created by underscoring a shared humanity, which can begin with simply cutting out divisive political rhetoric or pursuing some small service or sacrifice.
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Denied information about his biological father—Sibylla refuses to reveal Liberace's identity—Ludo sets off, quixotically and samurai-ishly, to find an ideal father: seven fathers, to be precise, each of whom he tests and fights.
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He's got to apply that tenderness to songs with Young Thug and J Hus (the surprisingly straight-as-an-arrow "Feels"), and with Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock (the quixotically appealing electro-pop number "Cross Me").
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He's got to apply that tenderness to songs with Young Thug and J Hus (the surprisingly straight-as-an-arrow "Feels"), and with Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock (the quixotically appealing electro-pop number "Cross Me").
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Some allege improper conduct in the public comment portion of rulemaking; some allege the rule itself is technically incorrect; some tilt quixotically at undoing the rule in order to undermine its support in advance of the midterm elections.
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"I accept the verdict of the people," Mr Najib declared grimly the morning after the election, although he did suggest, quixotically, that there was some uncertainty as to which party the king might nominate to lead the next government.
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Some have floated the argument that there's a sexist edge to it, with Sanders quixotically carrying on in a way that could actually hurt America's chances of electing a woman president — or, at the very least, spoiling the moment in a certain way.
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As played by Ed Harris in the tedious New Group production that opened on Thursday at the Pershing Square Signature Center, he is a good guy out of a '50s melodrama, quixotically fighting the bean counters in hopes of helping his patients.
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Especially in her earlier work, Sittenfeld's young women do not exactly resent the relative ease with which others — the beautiful, or the moneyed, or the innately, effortlessly good — seem to navigate the world; they study their ways, quixotically, tormented by those qualities or behaviors they don't understand.
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Heroically, or quixotically, despite deteriorating skills and the likelihood of the beginning of brain damage, he would fight for another 10 grueling years; he would go on to win some of the most celebrated boxing matches in history: Ali-Frazier II, Ali-Frazier III, Ali-Foreman (the "Rumble in the Jungle").
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In addition to her daughter, Ms. Taylor is survived by a second daughter, Christina Harrington; a son, Frank; five grandchildren; and her sisters, Joan Wishart and Darlene Taylor Mr. Laughlin, who had a passion for politics, was remembered for quixotically seeking the presidential nomination in several state primary races in 1992, 2004 and 2008.
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" Kelly opens up about childhood abuse at the hands of a family member he's since forgiven but stopped speaking to and of breaking the cycle of abuse in his own life but quixotically describes himself as a Bill Cosby figure around the house, quickly adding that he meant to describe "how we saw Bill Cosby when we were coming up.
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The school was featured in architectural publications of the period (although one somewhat quixotically described it as a multiunit residence). At the time of its listing on the National Register, it was serving as a storehouse. It is presently home to the Greater Worcester Land Trust, a land conservation organization.
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Jesse Root Grant II (February 6, 1858 – June 8, 1934) was an American politician. He was the youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. He joined the Democratic Party and quixotically sought the party nomination for President, running against William Jennings Bryan in 1908. In 1925, he wrote a biography of his father.
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McBay claimed he "left the organization at the beginning of 2012 after a trans inclusive policy was cancelled by Jensen and Keith. Many ... people ... left the organization for that reason". A 2013 post on the DGR website quixotically titled Protect Women, Feminism, and Free Speech protests and defines gender as non-existent. DGR views gender as a brutal and corrupt caste system that requires destruction.
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Randall lectures frequently to wine societies and technical groups, and occasionally contributes "quixotically sincere" articles to wine journals. His newsletters and articles were collected and published as the award-winning book, "Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology" in 2009. In 2010 The Culinary Institute of America inducted him into the Vintner’s Hall of Fame. He currently lives in Santa Cruz with his partner Chinshu and their daughter, Amélie.
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Zev and Yossi enter the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem through tunnels. Kishote, living up to his nickname, quixotically volunteers to help defend the besieged quarter. The defenders, overwhelmingly outnumbered and outgunned, are soon forced to surrender. A massacre is prevented by the presence of British officers and of the Red Cross, but all the synagogues of the Old City are blown up and destroyed by the Arab Legion.
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" From the Made in LA catalogue: "Ry Rocklen (b. 1978 Los Angeles) works with vintage objects that are chimerically transformed by the artist into farcical performative objects. In his hands, abandoned debris or kitsch is quixotically plasticized into a brand of postminimalist sculpture with a seductive touch of bling. Mundane objects are amplified and aestheticized when chromed or covered with mosaic tiles, producing a sculptural language that is theatrical, absurd, and graceful—a kind of wry ornamental formalism.
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Dragon Island is also a name sometimes given (quixotically) to a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, a little more than one km wide at its greatest extent, and about 4 km long, located just off the southwestern point of the island of Majorca, approximately 210 km due east of Valencia, Spain. This island comprises the Parc Natural Sa Dragonera.see Google Maps. It is the island referred to as Dragon Island in chapter eight of the historical novel Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian.
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In what would turn out to have a profound influence on his later life, Harinxma works with a sensitive young Canadian liaison officer posted to his ship, who quixotically dies in a futile attempt to shield an injured kitten from an attacking German plane. Later, Harinxma has a brief and guilt-ridden affair with the Canadian's widow. Things come to a head in a particularly disastrous convoy of which few of the participating ships survive to reach their destination. (Both De Hartog's book and MacLean's seem to be inspired by – though not be following in every detail – the case of the historical ill-fated Convoy PQ 17 of July 1942).
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It also used its access to the basement so that Pageboys could cover the concrete with dry ice, a prank copied in the movie Real Genius. In response to other houses quixotically claiming certain items to be off-limits in regard to pranks (rendering them "Non-RF-able"), the Page House president at the time named that the President be unprankable as well. In the past, there were two items in Page House that could not be the target of pranks: the pool table felt and a poster of President Nixon that is passed on to each House President shortly after s/he is elected. All student rooms in Page are designed as doubles; however, when vacancies arise, upperclassmen may live in rooms as singles.
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In response, Yeats delivered a series of speeches that attacked the "quixotically impressive" ambitions of the government and clergy, likening their campaign tactics to those of "medieval Spain." "Marriage is not to us a Sacrament, but, upon the other hand, the love of a man and woman, and the inseparable physical desire, are sacred. This conviction has come to us through ancient philosophy and modern literature, and it seems to us a most sacrilegious thing to persuade two people who hate each other... to live together, and it is to us no remedy to permit them to part if neither can re-marry." The resulting debate has been described as one of Yeats's "supreme public moments", and began his ideological move away from pluralism towards religious confrontation. William Butler Yeats, 1933; photo by Pirie MacDonald (Library of Congress) His language became more forceful; the Jesuit Father Peter Finlay was described by Yeats as a man of "monstrous discourtesy", and he lamented that "It is one of the glories of the Church in which I was born that we have put our Bishops in their place in discussions requiring legislation".
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