don quixote in English

noun
1
the hero of a romance (1605–15) by Cervantes, a satirical account of chivalric beliefs and conduct. The character of Don Quixote is typified by a romantic vision and naive, unworldly idealism.

Use "don quixote" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "don quixote" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "don quixote", or refer to the context using the word "don quixote" in the English Dictionary.

1. But Don Quixote is unstoppable.

2. Don Quixote, as he goes on the plain of

3. Don Quixote may be the most famous Bibliomaniac in fiction.

4. Or Don Quixote is a book about a donkey named Hotay.

5. Caging Don Quixote is a literal form of closure, you close him in.

6. Mounting his skinny steed, the protagonist of Don Quixote charges an army of giants.

7. Early on, Don Quixote is joined by a villager-turned-squire named Sancho Panza.

8. Don Quixote, of course, is only make-believe, but being deceived is seldom a laughing matter.

9. This sequence encapsulates much of what is loved about Don Quixote, the epic, illogical, and soulful tale of Alonso Quijano, who becomes the clumsy but valiant Don Quixote of la Mancha, known as the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

10. The interminable duns and khakis of La Mancha are the same that Don Quixote roamed across in his Crackbrained quest for adventure

11. Don Quixote farcical Chivalric acts are born of a desire to emulate the characters he has come across in the books he read

12. Cervantes described the eponymous hero of his Don Quixote as "imagining himself for the valour of his arm already crowned at least Emperor of Trebizond."

13. This list features the best Ballets in history, ranked as the best by the community and including, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Romeo & Juliet, The Sleeping …

14. For Don Quixote they represented a world of absolute values in a fake past and place, where there is no fissure, no break between the imagination, desire and the real.

15. His works, characterized by a cool neoclassicism, include The Nutcracker (1954) and Don Quixote (1965), both pieces Choreographed for the New York City Ballet, of which he was a founder

16. WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT, in his review of "Cardano" by Oystein Ore, writes: "It was natural for the injured Samson Carrasco in Cervantes' 'Don Quixote' to send for an Algebraist to heal his bruises."

17. With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, “The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana,” draw heavily on Cervantes’s own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes in Don Quixote

18. Jewish aspects of Don Quixote Moreover, assuming an actual inscription on the urn would require a severing of the brief Apothegm from the comment "that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know," which can hardly be

19. With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana," draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes in Don Quixote.

20. With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana," draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes in Don Quixote

21. With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana," draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes in Don Quixote

22. With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana," draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes in Don Quixote

23. With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at the Ottoman court, two of these, "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana," draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a captive, and echo important episodes in Don Quixote

24. CACHIDIABLO, Academician OF ARGAMASILLA, ON THE TOMB OF DON QUIXOTE EPITAPH TIQUITOC, Academician OF ARGAMASILLA, ON THE TOMB OF DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO These were all the verses that could be deciphered; the rest, the writing being worm-eaten, were handed over to one of the Academicians to make out their meaning conjecturally.

25. * 1612 , Thomas Shelton (translator), Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish author), The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha , Part 4, Chapter 15, page 500: O who is he that could carrie newes to our olde father, that thou wert but aliue, although thou wert hidden in the most Abstruse

26. In a Characteristically refined, subtle fashion, Cruz's project troubled not just the fantasy of the perfect translation, but also the idea that, were one to peer into his mind, one might find there a more polished or nuanced version of Don Quixote than the one that fell so haltingly on listeners' ears in the gallery.

27. (2) Jonathan Haugen as Costard, in white t-shirt and rolled-up blue jeans, swaggered onstage and immediately punctuated his betters' youthful absurdity by bragging about having been "taken with a damsel" (1.1.280) whose virginity he then denies; (3) and Jack Willis as Don Armado, a dashing Don Quixote wannabe in his billowing cape, feathered

28. The carrier, however, perceiving by the light of the innkeeper candle how it fared with his ladylove, quitting Don Quixote, ran to bring her the help she needed; and the innkeeper did the same but with a different intention, for his was to Chastise the lass, as he believed that beyond a doubt she alone was the cause of all the harmony.

29. The Absurdity of the plot clashes with the show's craving for social realism.: Don Quixote is a monument to Absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero.: In particular I loved it's Absurdity, it's gross attention to detail and it's endless fart gags.: As the family gather round to see her off in 1988, Lily reflects on both her past and the sheer Absurdity of life.