It's a quixotic effort, and it gives the novel a strange edge of suspense.

This is one in a long line of such quixotic efforts by the company, stretching back to its founding.

It is a quixotic effort at best and, like the debate over assisted suicide itself, fraught with controversy.

Fifteen years later, the aquarium was re-established on Coney Island in what turned out to be a quixotic effort to revive the amusement area.

Some scientists characterized the seemingly contradictory findings as a quixotic effort by the public to accommodate incompatible world views.

That quixotic effort demanded the sacrifice of any hope of robust communication with a nonprofessional public.

Yet he has embarked on a quixotic effort to engage Farrakhan and change his mind.

In the last four years, the Agriculture Department has shut American farms in a quixotic effort to drive up world grain prices.

In a section titled "The Quest for Authenticity," the show chronicles many of these quixotic efforts.

Dr. Damadian now speaks with some weariness about his quixotic effort.