How To Use Unattainable In A Sentence
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Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
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The second is to realise when the goal is unattainable and turn the envy towards an achievable outcome.
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Some economists think that full employment in Europe is an unattainable goal.
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It is easy to see the superrich as different, with gilded and unattainable lives.
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Their affection blossoms into love which is unfortunately unattainable.
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So far, cooperative parenting remains an unattainable goal for this couple.
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Throughout, this central character becomes involved with false muses all the while brushing by the true muse of unattainable perfection - the only role with pointe work.
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Dreaming is something that occurs while we are asleep, and it is usually something unattainable that we dream about.
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jibs" might be seen perambulating the courts, in the vain effort to discover their tutors 'chambers, the names having undergone an alteration that left all trace of their original proprietors unattainable: Doctor
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
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Drawing on Kohut’s 1971 examination of “self-pathology,” Goodsitt posited an unattainable, noncohesive sense of self, which interferes with the patient’s processing external stimuli, be it food or information.
Clinical Work with Adolescents
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In the back of any fitness enthusiast's mind is a series of attainable and unattainable goals.
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The mixture of resentment, nostalgia and love for an unattainable home underpins the documentary.
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The youngest is Pfeni, a travel writer who never stays in one place for long, and has a penchant for unattainable men.
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Meanwhile, the run on Roast Chicken rendered it unattainable within a very short time.
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Past accomplishments include in-situ sampling of atmospheric and magnetospheric regions that neither orbital spacecraft nor standard aircraft can reach, examining physical phenomena in microgravity conditions that are unattainable on the ground or only briefly available in drop towers and zero-g aircraft, using instruments too massive for spacecraft to detect cosmic rays that cannot be detected from the ground, and testing scientific instruments before committing to orbital or interplanetary flight.
Next Generation: NASA Offers Grants for New-Space Research Concepts
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In either case it lacks the fusion of undeviatingly precise, inexorable discipline with imaginative originality and wide range, and that combination of intensity, lyricism, and elegance which had raised the Russian ballet to its former unattainable height.
The Arts in Russia Under Stalin
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It certainly seems unattainable, but one cannot discount its possibility.
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Von Bulow makes this statement: "As the peculiar fingering adopted by Chopin for chromatic scales in thirds appears to us to render their performance in legatissimo utterly unattainable on our modern instruments, we have exchanged it, where necessary, for the older method of Hummel.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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How could she live without falling into despair with love so near and yet unattainable?
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For the genetic engineers, the grail of nitrogen-fixation remains unattainable.
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Yet Sarah Palin's leaked demands (including three deluxe hotel rooms, a private aircraft that "must be a Lear 60 or larger", and a "bendable" straw) have made her not only the envy of our former expense-claiming MPs, for whom a simple moat is now an unattainable dream, but also the peer of many rock stars.
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When we were 12 or 15 it was an unattainable goal of how you wished your life to be.
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Rather than declaring another set of unattainable goals, the EU should instead reform to a multispeed al la carte, to please the French model.
More European Commission Means Less Democracy
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That is how advertising works: it presents an unattainable ideal and then invites you to spend money on failing to attain it.
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We are built this way, and though we might strive for an ideal of non-being as exampled by the perfect servant above, it is against our nature to do so and may be unattainable.
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For the time being McConnell says that is probably unattainable.
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To the pragmatist the realist is hoping for something unattainable: in this case a foundation outside our ethics for our ethics to stand on.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Houran's studies indicate that the most deeply obsessed also show signs of erotomania, the delusion of having a love affair with an unattainable or uninterested person.
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If androgyny proved unattainable in a small socialist society whose citizens self-selected for radical feminist convictions, how could one bring it about in contemporary America, where most people don't want it?
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The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
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We who feel that the real is unattainable, or at least ungraspable, for us does salvation lie only in seclusion, in retreat, like a star abandoning its constellation?
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Scooping his hand into the same scientific elbow-rest as before, and backing it up with the inert strength of his arm, as skilfully as a Police Expert, and with an apparent repose quite unattainable by novices, Mr. Crisparkle conducts his pupil to the pleasant and orderly old room prepared for him.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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To the pragmatist the realist is hoping for something unattainable: in this case a foundation outside our ethics for our ethics to stand on.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was a teenager in the grip of a strong, young passion, and Bess was his unattainable beloved.
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However, in the U.S., such decisions have increasingly become pathological obsessions, as men become more and more subject to unattainable body ideals.
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Have a look at this for a brilliant exposé of how the real flesh, blood, mousy hair and freckles of a 'dowdy' girl next door can be transformed into an unattainable goddess.
Supermodel Erin O'Connor slams fashion world for lying to women
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There are those who argue that true independent advice is unattainable.
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The building then creates a climbable section to reach a tag section previously unattainable.
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It is not unattainable, it is within the reach and grasp of all who strive and aspire to have it.
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In their elephant-cord hipsters, tab-collared shirts and Carnaby Street suede laceups, they exuded an ineffable and hopelessly unattainable cool.
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The new model of fitness is no longer an unattainable physical ideal.
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Just because something may be physically unattainable is no need to stop striving for it.
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It is true, of course, that perfect objectivity in news reporting is unattainable.
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Alexander was unattainable for he took command of moving the ship down the makeshift slipway toward the tidal flats.
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And Home Front is sort of like the glossy magazine - it's absolutely unattainable - that's the top-shelf version really, the soft porn.
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But agreement on the necessary constitutional changes looks unattainable.
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For one thing, Kurt's pretty much only presented as a sort of unattainable ideal.
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In the back of any fitness enthusiast's mind is a series of attainable and unattainable goals.
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You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
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The problem is that for most men, as for most women, that ideal is unattainable.
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Why is a traditional middle class lifestyle increasingly unattainable?
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How long should they continue to bleed for their unattainable aim?
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Some economists think that full employment in Europe is an unattainable goal.
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The object the drive excessively fixates upon, meanwhile, is in no sense an ersatz or secondary substitute for an impossible, unattainable object; for the drive, there is no ‘thing-in-itself’.
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To the simple and ardent idealist its white stateliness must always suggest something symbolic, and, after all, it is the ardent and simple idealist whose dreams and symbols paint to prosaic human minds the beautiful impossibilities whose unattainable loveliness so allures as to force even the unexalted world into the endeavour to create such reproductions of their forms as crude living will allow.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
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What that means in real terms is that nobody thinks about him for most of the year and then shouts his name obsessively during Wimbledon, throwing their unattainable expectations behind him until his inevitable quarter-final knock-out.
Sports Personality Of The Year 2006 Betting Odds – Shaun Murphy
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It is not unattainable, it is within the reach and grasp of all who strive and aspire to have it.
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There were moments amid the deepening darkness when it seemed virtually impossible to reach the summit; the stars now lighted a glowing sapphirine sky, but that only made the venerable town in all its majesty seem ever more unattainable.
Vittorio, The Vampire
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However, it may be unfair to accuse the candidates of failing to attain the unattainable.
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There are those who argue that true independent advice is unattainable.
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So they sort of subconsciously hypnotise themselves into believing that rich girls are genuinely hotter and more of a sexual prize - and that, in pursuing them, they're genuinely driven by white-hot sexual lust for an unattainable princess.
EX MEN 2 : The Aftermath
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Without the meteorograph, rigid accuracy in the observation of shooting stars is unattainable, and rigid accuracy is the
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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It is potentially possible but in effect an unattainable ideal.
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Whether or not he achieves what many believe to be an unattainable goal is, in many ways, irrelevant.
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He wanted secretly to pursue a more artistic path but his circumstances seemed to make that unattainable.
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But beyond, and high above all, as if the spirits of the air had suddenly unveiled their bright abodes, placed in scaleless altitude in the stainless sky, heaven-kissing, companions of the unattainable ether, were the glorious Alps, clothed in dazzling robes of light by the setting sun.
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This is not an unattainable ideal.
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The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender, Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns.
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After that, once unattainable goals move within reach.
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At first she thought it was an unattainable dream but that changed when she discovered that she would qualify for financial aid.
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A thin ribbon that separates unparalleled views from unattainable wealth, the walk is a welcome balm to the landlocked masses.
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It certainly seems unattainable, but one cannot discount its possibility.
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Characters take turns bemoaning their frustrations or looking at the unattainable perfection of the stars.
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I agree that it's cruel to daughters and wives to raise the stakes of beauty to an unattainable level just to spite the glitterati.
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Whether this led them to choose unattainable people or whether their past experiences of unrequited love caused them to feel anxious, we cannot know.
EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
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Here in Drottningholm, it doesn't seem such an unattainable ideal.
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A female figure might have represented Liberty, but for real women she remained an unattainable ideal.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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It shows a young musician who, in a series of opium-induced dreams, pursues his unattainable Beloved or idée fixe through a ballroom, an idyllic landscape, a prison, and a witches' sabbath where she appears hideously transformed.
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But at the moment what she wants most is looking more unattainable.
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That would make the manly guys look like victims of a naturally unattainable standard of beauty.
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For most of the truly poor, a better life simply seems an unattainable dream.
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You may get a lot of admiration and recognition for the efficient way you help others, but it also makes you look like an unattainable person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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But all advertising is built upon unattainable ideals.
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impedimenta" thus bring to the race that has them a wealth of life both physical and psychical, practical and ideal, that is otherwise unattainable.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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In fact, perfect information is the unattainable holy grail, but dotcom business brings it that little bit closer.
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Acknowledging that there were limits to human knowledge, he had declared it unattainable.
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These shows always stress the unattainable as a goal, whether it's a rich man, or a beautiful woman.
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Long hours, mysterious forced injections for female workers and unattainable quotas are the hallmark of factories on the Massacre river.
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Part science fiction, part picaresque, and part burlesque, its alphabetized entries gesture provocatively, giving glimpses of their source's unattainable body.
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In the first, she's enjoying the unattainable luxuries of first class.
The Sun
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I don't think it was in our heads that it was an unattainable goal.
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We hanker for the perfect space, but it's an unattainable goal.
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This universe existed in the shape of darkness, unperceived , destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.
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It endured forever in its own special dimension of time - ageless, never dimming entirely from memory, forever after unattainable.
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But ahead lay a quagmire, a demoralising contest in which progress was unmeasurable and victory unattainable.
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Their strategy was to claim that output targets were unattainable, and not to attain them.
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Infantilise it as the "Inner Child" of the self-help charlatans though, idealise it in a sexually-retarded prepubescence, project that unreturnable infancy onto an unattainable other, and you're asking for the trouble that comes to Barrie's Pan or Sinisalo's Angel.
Poland Won, Bad Points Nil
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From the partial representations of narrow-minded bigots, who paint the Deity from their own gloomy conceptions, the young are too often frighted from the paths of virtue; despairing of ideal perfections, they give up all virtue as unattainable, and start aside from the road which they falsely suppose strewed with thorns.
The History of Emily Montague
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an unattainable goal
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The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
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Nationalist maximalism, remember, is a rhetorical mode of politics that precludes real political progress by narrowing the range possibilities to the most fervently wished for, if unattainable, national goals.
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My dear man of moods! my good vagabond! my windlestraw of circumstance! constant only to one ideal -- the unattainable perfection in a kind of roguish art.
Doom Castle
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That would make the manly guys look like victims of a naturally unattainable standard of beauty.
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Her face was of those that require the unattainable artist, whose hand can paint the reflection of inward fires and render that luminous vapor which defies science and is not revealable by language -- but which a lover sees.
The Lily of the Valley
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All these goals seem unattainable in the chaos, confusion and disorder that seem to prevail presently in and around Pakistan and indeed in the whole world of humanity.
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Many people ignore the fact that the idealised body images that surround them are just that - idealised - and actually unattainable for most of us.
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You want to do something about it but you're unmotivated - a toned butt seems so unattainable and you don't know where to start!
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The sense of unoccupied power had begun to render him restless, and it was with elation which might have appeared tinctured with ingratitude by those who did not comprehend the mysterious workings of his untranquil ambition, that he prepared for his return to that foreign land where he could enjoy advantages for the prosecution of his art-studies unattainable in a young country.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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Unattainable luxuries were transformed into desirable marks of status or even into affordable necessities.
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Is this a hopelessly unattainable goal?
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