Both writers and readers instinctively meet it with "bitter contemptuous rejection," whether out of "despair over the impossibility of realizing the vision" or out of a profoundly modern disbelief that any earthly happiness could satisfy the needs of the spirit.
The main purpose of my study, though, is to uncover the conflicting tensions exerted on Ben-Gurion, the utopian visionary, and on Ben-Gurion the pragmatic political leader who was growing aware of the impossibility of realizing many of his dreams in his lifetime.
Foucault's view is that, in the end, it isn't—and that the impossibility (historically realized) means the collapse of the modern episteme.
And this time, instead of dismissing it as an impossibility, I realized that it might just be the perfect opportunity.
I laugh at the thought of my carrying him, at the impossibility, then realize that it was a joke, and I got it.
If a way the world might not be is a way some concrete impossible world is, impossibilities are realized by the plain existence of impossibilia instantiating them.
After contemplating the impossibility of the task, Indiana realizes that he must step into the abyss, trusting that he won't fall.
Realizing the impossibility of large-scale expansion beyond the Rhine, rulers of the Flavian dynasty (69 96) annexed the region between the middle Rhine and upper Danube rivers, roughly the Black Forest region, to secure communications between Roman garrisons, by then permanently established on both rivers.
Ms. Thompson said she realized the impossibility of sticking to the spa's diet when she was back at work.
At first he searches frantically around the island, but the car breaks down, he realizes the impossibility of ever finding the balsam, and goes back to the house.
The clinical ethicist will usually be wary of invoking philosophical or religious theory because her interlocutors usually have neither the time nor the inclination to discuss matters on this level, while the bioethicist on the national commission will soon realize the impossibility of forging a consensus with his or her peers on the basis of theory alone.
