We live in a world in which the old ideals of luxury no longer seem quite so unattainable.
Oh sure, she looks like she could pack a few Big Macs – although I'm sure Featherstone would warn us against those – but as an ideal she is quite as unattainable as any other.
Critics of the 2001 law have long said that the universal proficiency requirement was both too vague — states set their own definitions for proficiency, and some set them quite low — and unattainable.
Nevertheless, in terms of the children's safety and ease of transportation, the school was quite convenient and quality was considered an unattainable luxury.
If an airplane trip once seemed unattainable, her daughter's accomplishments proved quite the opposite.
If Perroncel hadn't been quite so gorgeous, in quite such an aloof and unattainable way, she wouldn't have been such excellent paparazzi fodder; nor would she have been so easy to dislike on principle.
A shot at silverware "at home" has proved an unattainable desire but with Dardai in charge, nothing seems quite impossible right now.
These two seemingly opposed ideologies, Popper argued, were actually quite alike, for they both falsely claimed absolute truth — which, he held, was unattainable.
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.
So let's stop with the unattainable 'magic beans' of happiness, focus on what makes us feel good, and, quite simply, do more of it.
