But like other governors in the vanguard of health policy, Mr. Rendell also concluded that such a move would be unaffordable, and perhaps politically unattainable, without serious efforts to control costs.
It is based on an 1811 story by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and like "La Sylphide," "Giselle" or "Swan Lake," it speaks of the Romantic longing for the unattainable, perhaps even the artist's elusive vision of the creative spirit in the form of a muse.
Among the younger set utopia does not mean 1960's-style radicalism; it implies something unattainable, except perhaps in a hand-me-down form, and therefore smaller and inherently poignant.
But utopia among the younger set does not mean 1960's-style "shake up the world, burn down the house, start from scratch" radicalism; it implies something unattainable, except perhaps in a hand-me-down form, and therefore smaller in scope and inherently poignant.
No wonder, perhaps, that Arthurian quests for unattainable love should have become such an enduring theme in Burne-Jones's work.
If there is one calming thought as we lie awake, as sleep eludes us, as we contemplate therapies and tinctures and tablets, it is this: perhaps we are trying to attain the unattainable.
Jennifer Lawrence's public persona may be the latest iteration of unattainable Cool Girl, but there has perhaps always been a Cool Girl looming large, reminding us just how narrow -- and treacherous -- the path is to becoming her.
His feelings for Catherine are overwhelming; she makes him shy, lovestruck, in a way that Beatrice does not — or, perhaps, that only Catherine can, largely because she's unattainable.
