Sentence examples for at unattainable from inspiring English sources

Fumbles in the dorm at Marlborough, instruction by moist-eyed Cambridge dons squinting Housman-like at unattainable athletic limbs, the stern embrace of intellectual Marxism as an absolution of class guilt and an acceptance of a predetermined role in world redemption: the clichéd elements of a certain early 20th-century upper-bourgeois outsider are familiar.

"Popular," with spoken interludes cribbed from a corny 1950's dating manual ("if you see Johnny Football Hero in the hall, tell him he played a great game!") and a catchy chorus that poked fun at unattainable high school dreams, was a pleasant summer diversion.

And goals don't have to start at unattainable.

Teach about tragic, wasted lives... crime, drugs, Show how "untouchable beauty" is a wasted life, people gawking at unattainable model beauty.

Sitting on the buttoned and worn splitting leather, one had the absurd sensation of travelling, so that if one sat close enough to the windows, which opened six inches only, and looked out at the unattainable sky and not at the animal-filled park, one could quite easily imagine oneself out for a Sunday-afternoon run in the country.

Greater pessimism is expressed around prospects for peace, an idea that seems distant at best and unattainable at worst.

This is a recent study imaging root bacterial interactions at previously unattainable spatiotemporal resolutions.

One blog, UnhappyHipsters.com, pokes fun at its unattainable taste, by running snarky captions under the magazine's picture-perfect tableaus.

The plan, then and now, has been to wait for better days in the real estate markets and eventually sell everything at prices unattainable in the financial crisis.

Most of us live hovering somewhere between the two, neither giving in with passive acceptance, nor grasping dewy-eyed at the unattainable.

"The Ziegfeld strut," as it was called, was a way of behaving in the proximity of the paying customers to create a sense of aloofness and decorum--to appear at once unattainable and irresistible-and Millie carried it off.