Sentence examples for impossibility of a real from inspiring English sources

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Some regard charity as a condescending attitude; others expose the underlying expectation of return involved in any system of gifts (Mauss 1954) or even the logical impossibility of a real, free and gratuitous gift relationship, since every giving involves an expectation of return — of both gratitude and a future gift (Derrida 1992).

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But Yates isn't convinced, and says as much in a separate blog, pointing out the platform's inflexibility and the impossibility of any real self-expression.

In "At Berkeley," Wiseman, looking admiringly at the historic seat of student radicalism, comes up against the impossibility of a radical university — because real radicalism isn't something that responsible administrators unwilling to renounce the proper administration of the university itself, and maybe even to put its very existence at risk, can foster.

In view of the central importance of function to evolution, and the impossibility of incorporating real functional constraints without real function, it is important that protein-like models be developed around real structure function relationships.

In my naivete, I thought it was a nice love story but a sadly cynical statement on the impossibility of real, i.e. non-sexual, friendships between men and women.

My problem was I could not shake off regret at the impossibility of meeting the real Stevie Smith, coupled with a mild unease, wondering how she would have felt about seeing herself played by an actor ("I'm not very receptive to the theatre"), inauthentically holding forth in the suburbs.

The retreat from Dunkirk saved British lives, but it signalled the near impossibility of a British return to continental Europe, and opened up the real prospect of a German invasion of the British mainland.

The first and second about the practicality of morality and the impossibility of real conflict are his target in his well-known early paper "Ethical Consistency" (PS: 166 186).

Our shoot is about our immortal wish to look like American school kids from the Hollywood movies of the 80s and 90s and the impossibility of making it real because of the total poverty.

Now we can see the point of Kripke's analogy between the impossibility of a private language and the impossibility of central planning.

A third disc finds Drake pondering the impossibility of real-life romantic connection in the age of the nip-slip Twitpic.

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