This house is unattainably expensive. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But so I mean, as a result we have a lot of ... working in personal relationships with a lot of musicians that used to be kind of unattainably famous to us as jazz students you know, but really it's like they're just people that want to play great music and don't want drama, you know what I mean?. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
From our experience, that seems like an unattainably optimistic goal. From Wordnik.com. [The Consumerist: May 2007 Archives] Reference
Rather, what appeared unattainably far was a glimpse of ice-blue sky outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
The second layer of clouds, unattainably far below, was much darker in color than the first. From Wordnik.com. [A Meeting with Medusa]
In Chekhov's plays, the promise and salvation of the theater are always waiting, unattainably, just offstage. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHEKHOV.] Reference
To me, when I think of celebrities (actors, musicians, etc), it's like they are up on his unattainably high pedestal, almost not like the rest of us. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Serratos, The ‘Twilight’ Tuesday Star, Eager To Say ‘Yes’ To An Impressive Career » MTV Movies Blog] Reference
Deconstruct the naivety accompanying the dualistic appearance of yourself as a seemingly concrete "me," inherently alone, and these people as seemingly concrete, unattainably distant "you". From Wordnik.com. [The Sensitivity Handbook: Training Materials for Developing Balanced Sensitivity ��� Exercise 22: Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness] Reference
When we are obsessed with feeling sorry for ourselves, we are caught in the dualistic appearance of ourselves as a seemingly concrete "me," inherently alone, and of these people as seemingly concrete, unattainably distant "you.". From Wordnik.com. [20 Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness] Reference
"Where do you go all these nights?" asked Aurelia, his unattainably highborn girlfriend, whom he often wooed by reciting Andreas Cappelanus on the art of courtly love: medieval literature having been among his best courses at Amherst. From Wordnik.com. ['Palace Council'] Reference
If denial of Leibniz equivalence is a blunder so egregious that no competent mathematician would make it, then our standards for competence have become unattainably high, for they must exclude David Hilbert in 1915 at the height of his powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Argument] Reference
Ah, how far, how unattainably far from him, she was still!. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice] Reference
I can't see the use of an unattainably high standard as a reasonable defence. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I know lab-created and treated gemstones are fairly common, but natural ones aren't unattainably rare. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
"Opening Up" makes open relationships seem like a theory, an unattainably utopian castle in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Greta Christina's Blog] Reference
To be fair, though, what's middling for the Coens would be unattainably fine for most of the rest of Hollywood. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
If you sigh with delight at the seeming endlessness of wine in a box, prepare to have your standards set unattainably high. From Wordnik.com. [Boise Weekly] Reference
"@MichaelD what makes you think it's going to be so unattainably expensive? ..." on NBN 101: Floating the submarine cable question. From Wordnik.com. [Computerworld News] Reference
The next milestone was the long-anticipated and still very disappointing AMD Phenom launch: Intel CPUs remained unattainably ahead. From Wordnik.com. [X-bit labs] Reference
We believe that there is a large population of potential students who want a higher education but do not pursue it because of their belief that tuition is unattainably high. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
The knight's friends amassed large sums, for the ransom demanded was almost unattainably high: but it was collected at last, and the knight was freed from servitude and misery. From Wordnik.com. [What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales] Reference
Do what he might to banish the thought of her, she would be with him always; the more surely with him, the more reproachfully and unattainably, because she would be the wife of another man. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
And if even still a painful tear may be shed over past errors or present faults; if the longing after what is yet unattainably better, purer, and brighter, may occasion many a pang -- what matters it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Home] Reference
It made too strong a contrast to his gloomy soul, and it even seemed as though the course of the sun, in its beaming, unattainably lofty path, mocked the hapless, painful obstruction to his own motion. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Four mortal waterless hours I toiled steeply upward, more than twenty times sure I had reached the summit, only to see the trail, like some will-o'-the-wisp, draw on ahead unattainably in a new direction. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
Unless the initial state of the object is known to an unattainably high degree of precision, neither the timing of the onset, nor the duration, nor the magnitude of these phase transitions can be predicted at all. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The researchers expected that exposure would be more strongly associated with depression among girls than boys "because of the known preponderance of media images of girls and women with unattainably thin and unblemished bodies.". From Wordnik.com. [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference
After all, the science justifying action to raise the cost of energy generally and forcing the European automotive industry to raise its fuel economy to unattainably high levels, has been shown to be in doubt, if not downright fraudulent. From Wordnik.com. [detnews.com - Autos Insider] Reference
Binomial tree or other lattice method is its slow convergence rate, the barrier option value converges very slowly as the number of tree or lattice levels increase, often requiring unattainably large computing times for even a modest accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
The incident is the second time in a month that a property dispute has lead to self-immolation, attracting widespread condemnation on the Chinese internet, where the unattainably high price of home ownership is growing source of popular discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
She grew pale at that, and said it was enough to love a hero, even without hope of return; and as she said it she herself looked so heroic, so radiant, so unattainably the woman I wanted, that a sneer may have escaped me: -- was she so sure then that Briga was a hero?. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
Suddenly, Aydrian’s corporeal form seemed so much farther away, almost unattainably so!. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
12 Noon: Barack Obama will face the near-hypothermic crowd, take the oath of office and make his first set of vague, unattainably empty promises as president. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
I’m glad you all enjoyed the state of my dining room so much I try and remember that, when I’m reading blogs that feel so unattainably perfect – it’s all in how you frame it!. From Wordnik.com. [Polka Dot Cottage: A lesson in perspective] Reference
They should be unattainably expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Where's the Wit?] Reference
"That would be unattainably expensive, Graydal.". From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
7. 6\% in January and from what now seems an unattainably low 4. 8\% in February of 2008. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles] Reference
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