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Don Quixotesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From Don Quixote + -esque.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.
   • But while in Jézabel Jehu's inward calling triumphs forcefully over Jezebel's sensuous temptation, in his agonizingly torn condition the hero of Schelomo can offer only bitter resignation. However effective this last, Don Quixotesque moment is in the music, it does not neutralize the luxurious sensuality of the score. 2008, Klára Móricz, Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press, →ISBN, part 2, chapter 4, 141:
   • Liakos's own conceptualization of clandestine struggle included L'Armata Brancaleone (1966), Mario Monicelli's parody of a knights' quest in the Middle Ages. His projected identification with Brancaleone, the antihero of Don Quixotesque qualities, points to considerable self-irony in his organization's conceptualization of militantism. 2013, Kostis Kornetis, chapter 2, in Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ‘Long 1960s’ in Greece, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 73:
   • Under his affected way of speaking Don José is a man of great simplicity. Rosario, a warm-hearted but worldly woman who never enters a church, treats him as a child. She makes him salads and lets him walk about the garden, listening to his Don Quixotesque speeches with a scarcely concealed smile. 1950, Gerald Brenan, chapter 5, in The Face of Spain, Serif Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 99:

Forms

Synonyms

Don Quixotic

Translations (3)

ca quixotesc (Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.) · eo donkiĥota (Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.) · fr don-quichottesque (Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.)