Sentence examples for unattainable man from inspiring English sources

9. Villette by Charlotte Brontë This story of a lonely woman's love for an unattainable man caused George Eliot to cry: "Villette!

THAT sort of talk is very satisfying to devoted David Duchovny fans (me included), who have been reduced this season to an adolescent kind of yearning for Duchovny-Mulder, whose current scarcity makes him the ultimate unattainable man.

Ms. Steinhagen had a penchant for falling in love with unattainable men.

Hannah doesn't see for a long time that she only goes for unattainable men.

Bella Swan might be devoid of any obvious interests beyond her lust for vampire Edward Cullen and werewolf Jacob Black, but her very blankness has allowed a generation of young women who are in love or would like to be to live out their longings for dangerous, unattainable men.

At the same time, Gombrowicz knows that we cannot do without forms and structures, that absolute autonomy is unattainable and "man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot".

Let him rest Onlyis laurels and enthroughhim in a Morris chair, in which laurels and hero may wither together.

Billy, known as Baby Budd, is the unattainable, unspoiled boy-man.

She is a sole object of desire, out of reach and unattainable to the men below, the voyeurs, as they gaze longingly upward.

True, she praises Sweden for deciding in 1999 that prostitution was male violence against women and as a result criminalised the buying of sex and decriminalised the selling of sex because "gender equality will remain unattainable so long as men buy, sell and exploit women and children by prostituting them".

LISA MARIE BASILE: Men -- or the ideas of ghostly, unattainable, predatory and nurturing men -- have always played a major role in all of my work.