Sentence examples for chasing windmills from inspiring English sources
(Roscoe, a Cervantes professor, loves chasing windmills; he has left his wife and children for the much younger Sally).
"I thought it was chasing windmills," Mrs. Rosenblatt said of how she felt when they first took the case.
But what is the point of wasting years of your life chasing windmills?
To walk away from clean coal technologies while chasing windmills will be economic suicide.
He spent his time at work researching conspiracies, chasing windmills through the internet's self-perpetuating myth machine.
Even if these commentators are right, the point of all this hypothesizing on millennial malaise seems to add up to this: For those of us pursuing impossible goals, chasing windmills and Loch Ness monsters, are we just putting off the inevitable?
"You could like look at this and say, 'We are crazy, chasing after windmills.' " The notion set Mr. Bailey and Mr. Moore to laughing, as Mr. Bailey described a Don Quixote scene with the four friends astride donkeys, charging haplessly toward a hazy apparition at the top of a hill.
A similar example would be Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet chasing each other through the windmills of their partially erased minds.
Legs and arms stuck out of her any old how, her navel and her nose were chasing each other across her back, the windmill of her torso was inlaid with the multicolored satins of her dress, and one foot, encased in an enormous high-heeled shoe, shot up skyward. . . .
But if they had, they would have seen an odd and captivating little trace of empire: windmilling bowlers, batsmen in white leg pads, fielders chasing down a bouncing red ball — former colonials playing Britain's game in yet another former colony, one where cricket has all but disappeared from the collective memory.
These include scenes from the Dutch countryside of bridges and windmills, old quays, massive towers, and level banks, against misty skies or chasing clouds.
