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And though he’s undeniably quixotic, PTA’s relentless urgency consistently overrides the sticky trappings of saccharine sentimentality that would snare less ambitious filmmakers.

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Here, it’s employed to accentuate the small-town sunniness of the place along with its buzz and sweat, emphasizing Lee’s quixotic trust in the inevitability of truth.

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Nevertheless, the show does the news profession a solid by depicting Ned, Mare, and Softees’ other volunteer journalists as quixotic heroes doing the best they can with paltry resources and managerial roadblocks.

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“Endling” throws three strangers involved with Ukraine’s for-profit international matchmaking market together for a quixotic kidnapping caper in a nation on the brink of war.

Lancaster residents have become accustomed to a mayor with proposals that are often grand, and sometimes quixotic.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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