The phrase "unattainable love" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a type of love that is not possible to achieve or obtain. Example: Despite their strong feelings for each other, their love remained unattainable due to their families' expectations and societal barriers.
Kingsolver's descriptions of life in Mexico City burst with sensory detail — thick sweet breads, vividly painted walls, the lovely white feet of an unattainable love.
No wonder, perhaps, that Arthurian quests for unattainable love should have become such an enduring theme in Burne-Jones's work.
It has the usual lineup: a smart, awkward hero; a rich bad guy; clueless adults; and an unattainable love interest.
Memory is an essential component of this genre of lyric poetry; the miserable protagonist of "Winterreise" tortures himself by rehashing memories of his unattainable love.
This week in the magazine, Hilton Als reviews the current Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms," a play in which O'Neill's recurring theme of unattainable love takes the form of a son pining for his dead mother.
Only last week, I found out that the circle of worship around Mr A was self-renewing: the man's career as an unattainable love god was commendably long lived.
Moreover, he enjoys the illusory quality of unattainable, idealized love, and his basic incompetence and ambivalence make it impossible for him to really deal with the situation anyway.
His bitter, inconclusive conversations with his son – who may be or may not be dead, Dad doesn't know, though he resists the possibility – reveal the all too ordinary tragedy of their relationship: inexpressible love, unattainable forgiveness.
But time somehow collapses in New York, and within a decade the unattainable becomes commonplace, the love you feel for an impossible mistress turns into something like the love of a middle-aged child for an ailing parent.
Ms. Steinhagen had a penchant for falling in love with unattainable men.
"HER voice is full of money," Fitzgerald's Gatsby says of his star-crossed love, the unattainable Daisy.
