Making your successes and achievements feel like failures ("Well, 94% might be an A, but you should have gotten 100%).
She had lived for a year and a week after the wound-infection procedure, but to her daughters the achievement felt hollow.
The allusion is to the circumnavigation of Britain in AD84 by a Roman war fleet; and whether "Thule" does indeed refer to Shetland, or else to Fair Isle, or even to Faroe, it concisely conveys the sense of achievement felt by those who had sighted it.
That blinkered vision is exacerbated, ironically, by the sense of personal virtue and personal achievement felt by so many of today's super-rich.
In fact, Hollande's parity achievement feels normal.
"That was hard and makes this achievement feel all the more wonderful," said McCall.
I didn't take long enough off after the 2012 Olympics and went straight into those six-hour training sessions, but this achievement feels incredible.
But Mr Inglis's achievement feels somehow more remarkable, given that his shtick was dressing up in a People's Liberation Army uniform and singing communist revolutionary songs.
It's a potent debut, and the weight of its achievement feels properly definitive, like something the band has steadily been working toward.
"In our armored, airbrushed age, his achievement feels almost revolutionary".
