Sentence examples for unattainable standard from inspiring English sources

As is to be expected, top executives provide a beguiling, if unattainable, standard.

I am not advocating some unattainable standard set by the great masters of renaissance and baroque sculpture, or later by Rodin.

But NPR is held to an almost unattainable standard of objectivity and must appeal regularly to a coterie of legislators whose animosity toward it is deep.

A9 A Palestinian memorandum says the Palestinian government believes Israel is trying "to forestall a return to meaningful political negotiations" by setting the "unattainable" standard of a complete halt in violence.

She could be darkly humorous about what she was going through and, if she had ever decided to write about it, she would have set an unattainable standard for the genre.

One of her most pointed critics is Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former top State Department official who wrote a notable feature in the Atlantic magazine last year arguing that women expecting to have a family and a full career were being held to an unattainable standard.

"Instead, I just see it recapitulating stereotypes about women, cruel and unattainable standards and, above all, unquestioned heteronormativity".

Last year, he released "F**k All the Perfect People," an album that took aim at the media's unattainable standards and the distorting effects of fame.

You've set the bar high for yourself and it sounds as though it's been dictated by the unattainable standards you've observed being set on social media.

- Having judged your own body by such unattainable standards, enter a period of self-destructive, compulsive undereating of the kind that will inevitably be followed by a period of self-destructive, compulsive overeating.

Ms. Sandberg's chief critic has been Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton professor and former top State Department official, who published an Atlantic Magazine article titled "Why Women Can't Have It All," last year arguing that feminism — and Ms. Sandberg — were holding women to unattainable standards for personal and professional success.