Quixotic
Definition: Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree
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The Prime Minister - By Anthony Trollope
...When he had described a certain line of conduct as Quixotic he had been very much in earnest ....
Silas Marner - By George Eliot
...As a consequence, her not infrequent excursions into the domain of satire are usually luckless and Quixotic ....
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind--a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me--I am sure of it--an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it ....
Barchester Towers - By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir
...Her husband had no right to be Quixotic at the expense of fourteen children ....
The Song of the Lark - By Willa Cather, Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press
...And what I like best in you is this particular enthusiasm, which is not at all practical or sensible, which is downright Quixotic ....
The Development of the English Novel - By Wilbur Lucius Cross
...Mr. Micah Balwhidder, a kind-hearted and Quixotic Scotch Dr. Primrose ....
Romola - By George Eliot
...Especially on every thirteenth of November, reputed anniversary of Plato 's death, it had looked from under laurel leaves at a picked company of scholars and philosophers, who met to eat and drink with moderation, and to discuss and admire, perhaps with less moderation, the doctrines of the great master--on Pico della Mirandola, once a Quixotic young genius, with long curls, astonished at his own powers, and astonishing Rome with heterodox theses; afterwards a more humble student, with a consuming passion for inward perfection, having come to find the universe more astonishing than his own cleverness--on innocent, laborious Marsilio Ficino, picked out young to be reared as a Platonic philosopher, and fed on Platonism in all its stages till his mind was perhaps a little pulpy from that too exclusive diet--on Arigelo Poliziario, chief literary genius of that age, a born poet, and a scholar without dullness, whose phrases had blood in them and are alive still--or, farther back, on Leon Battista Alberti, a reverend senior when those three were young, and of a much grander type than they--a robust, universal mind, at once practical and theoretic, artist, man of science, inventor ,...
Trilby - By George Du Maurier
...And now that his name is a household word in two hemispheres, and he himself an honor and a glory to the land he has adopted as his own, he loves to remember all this and look back from the lofty pinnacle on which he sits perched up aloft to the impecunious days of his idle apprenticeship--le bon temps ou Von eta'it si malheureux \/ And with all that Quixotic dignity of his, so famous is he as a wit that when he jokes -LRB- and he is always joking -RRB- people laugh first, and then ask what he was joking about ....