It remained for the smug, "sober judgment" of our day to pronounce it "unattainable" -- unattainable!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference

Aspiration toward the unattainable is the condition of growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

MCCANN: Well, of course all hostage-takers want the unattainable, which is they want -- supposedly this was in Urdu.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2002] Reference

These microtonal intervals permit fine shades of musical expression unattainable by the Western chromatic scale of 12 semitones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

Mr Gerber said using education for an "unattainable" goal such as nation-building was "irresponsible and unforgiveable".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Instead of bewildering ourselves with questions about 'unattainable' or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

She said women shouldn't be constantly comparing themselves with the "unattainable" figures of most celebrities and models.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

No woman is unattainable, except when she loves another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This particular high ground, however, might be unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Iran came close to getting a nuclear weapon, would Obama use force?] Reference

The kid with the hair can only represent something unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kid With the Hair] Reference

It was a cherished word that denoted something almost unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barry Bortnick: Heroism in the Modern Era] Reference

Yet, a full accounting of the emotional toll can feel unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stacy Parker Le Melle: What Jamal Saw: Finding the Disaster Aftermath in the Face of a Child] Reference

We can't hold people up to a gold standard, because that's unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [16 Ideas for the Planet] Reference

It was as if they longed for a connection that seemed sadly unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: Company B, Citizen: Dances For Our Troubled Times] Reference

And realizing that perfection is unattainable and in fact, uninteresting.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Feminism Got Corrupted] Reference

For years you've been toying with the idea of attaining the unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: New Perfectionism: a Platform of Self-Acceptance] Reference

Certainty about this case, always elusive, is by now probably unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torricelli's Larger Point] Reference

And perhaps, with such questions, consistency is unattainable and even undesirable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abortion Is Not the Only Moral Issue] Reference

 Sometimes alone, sometimes in groups, my previously unattainable goals file to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Writing] Reference

Food prices in Pakistan have quadrupled, making basic nutrition unattainable for many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erich Pica: Climate Ostriches: Why Russia's and Pakistan's Extreme Weather Is About to Become the Norm] Reference

What's more frustrating than to be told a problem isn't solvable or a goal unattainable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spiritual Value of Asking 'But Why Not?': A 'Jewel of Elul' by Jeremy Ben-Ami] Reference

It is the perfect antidote for those seeing the unattainable top schools on the new U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best (and most unsettling) college admissions book ever] Reference

But the good life now seems so unattainable that she finds herself weeping as she watches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerusalem Up Against the Wall] Reference

Perhaps Ben-Gurion's dream of a cohesive secular society was unattainable from the beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Israel Is It?] Reference

And yet he gave a long sigh of regret when he thought she was unattainable except by marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The constant invocation of unattainable goals will foster a general climate of irresponsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We Can Do] Reference

In '92, the dream to attain the unattainable was realized for many through smash and grab tactics.    From Wordnik.com.  [How The Flames Shaped The Shield] Reference

Happiness is built up by having good days, not by reaching for an unattainable ideal in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Anxiety: How To Change Your Response] Reference

The words were like the ends of dreams; powerful and unattainable, just on the edge of comprehension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from "Change" where a 1963D Quarter is followed for a hundred years.] Reference

Wright uses Hannah as a metaphor for the black people who pray for deliverance even though it seems unattainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trying Times for Trinity] Reference

I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatgirl Slim] Reference

So things stayed platonic, but passion can heat up in music, as in the one sonata he wrote for his unattainable amour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin: Haydn Made Easy] Reference

He managed to wrestle both halves out from under his thighs but realized the buckling itself would be an unattainable objective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference

If we have failed to achieve a particular purpose once before or many times before, it doesn't make it unattainable in your future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troy Roness: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': The Power of Regret] Reference

I had instantly catalogued her as unattainable, but as the year and my social connections grew she seemed more and more approachable.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life In Pools] Reference