Sentences with phrase «as unattainable»

The potential employer might view you as an unattainable employee and move on to more realistic prospects.

But realize that even a less than preferred rating can be quite affordable, so don't automatically dismiss term life as unattainable if you're older or have health issues.

The show was a sort of double appropriation, inspired by and featuring Ceal Floyer's seminal sound work born from Tammy Wynette's 1972 country hit, suggesting that success and failure are both fetishized as constructs of a capitalist regime, which displaces them as unattainable — hypotheticals that exist only in the future and past.

Jong soon Im Interested in presenting battles between ancient armies from past eras as unattainable fantasy, Jang soon Im creates mixedmedia paintings, drawings, collages, and videos of war scenes.

Steinberg also questioned — most notably in his 1967 essay, «Objectivity and the Shrinking Self» — the art - historical pursuit of objectivity, portraying it as both an unattainable ideal and a limited means of understanding an artwork or concept anyway.

Although, Lucchini has always been a painter of the living, this exhibition places the landscape as an equal protagonist; in the war related paintings it is as an unwilling accomplice, but in many of the other pictures it is seen as an unattainable paradise, which is always strived for but never reached due to the incapacity of man to ever rise above his own limitations.

They'll probably view it as an unattainable dream; after all, very few people write books, and most of them can't even muster up the courage to try.

You may find researching as unattainable due to your inexperience but you can gain knowledge in it or make it possible through everyday practice.

It's not as unattainable as a Ferrari, Lamborghini, or Maserati is for most of us but it's beautiful nonetheless, so we've decided that it's worthy of that wallpaper treatment and have handpicked a few just for you.

Since the ultimate goal of NCLB, that 100 percent of students would be proficient on state tests by 2014, was widely acknowledged as unattainable, more and more schools were failing to make AYP as we approached that deadline.

The waivers free states from federal requirements that all students score proficient on state math and reading exams by 2014, a goal many view as unattainable.

But we compromise such «behavior modification» when those on the ground view the targets as unattainable.

These fantastic results were a shock both to those who had already dismissed Jones» goal as unattainable and those who actually wanted him to succeed!

«I suppose it means that 2 °C isn't quite as unattainable as it was previously thought to be, but I'm not exactly holding my breath on climate negotiations,» says Annan.

And that, I now know, is just as important as some unattainable, objective measure of pleasure.

Whatever is difficult may be dispensed with as optional or as an unattainable ideal.

The smaller goal was easier to reach and didn't feel as unattainable as the total goal did.

Research published in Harvard Business Review has shown that when sales representatives are faced with unrealistic goals they view as unattainable, they tend to lose motivation and underperform.

Not exact matches

It may seem unattainable to reach «celebrity status» in your given field, but it's not as hard as you may think.

Previously, the company had used a refrigerator - sized device known internally as «the Beast» in demonstrations, a piece of hardware offering visuals that may prove unattainable in smaller appliances, at least anytime soon.

As a result, revenue goals feel increasingly unattainable.

As humans, pure goodness in thought, deed or both will always remain unattainable because of our sins.

«It is not as though any definite act of man could draw grace down from heaven; yet grace answers deed in unpredictable ways, grace unattainable, yet not self - withholding.»

Or one may dismiss them as admirable but unattainable, and of doubtful value even if they could be attained.

«Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds,» she wrote, «agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.»

Or even more sad we see our gifts like servanthood, charity, love, and kindness as far off unattainable virtues.

The high moral standard (love your enemy and do good to those who do evil to you) was unattainable (and obviously unacceptable as well) by Jefferson — who was in fact in rebellion against a government in which the Bible demands he should have been submissive and subject to.

But far above these rising slopes stands the seemingly unattainable peak which marks the end of this phase of the sermon: «You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.»

The ideal is unattainable — for the adult; but the child, who naturally exists in this state of naïveté or innocence, reigns as a supreme symbol for Schiller.

I was never the tiny girl in the crowd, and I looked at other experienced runners around me as some sort of unattainable image.

He said: «Arsenal aren't moving from their initial positions and Campbell is unattainable as of now.

Recently, a similar handicapper by the name of Chad Smith (or as he's more commonly known the Sports Betting Star) has come to our attention with seemingly unattainable claims of a 95 % winning rate.

«Campbell is unattainable as of now.

While I love that it helps to normalize breastfeeding in the public eye, I also feel like it almost sets an unattainable standard if that is the bar we are advertising as acceptable.

To briefly sum up his thoughts, he described this film as a depiction of a middle - aged man who prefers to live in fantasy and who chases an unattainable ideal across the globe, only to realize this figment of happiness is a creation of his own feelings of cowardice and insecurity.

But painting a one - sided picture of breastfeeding as an ideal gold standard gift means many mothers think it's an unattainable ideal — on a par with never eating sugar or using silk diapers — rather than the biological norm, something that is simply meant to happen.

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

One Republican called this a «big win» for Flanagan, and both the NYS Rifle and Pistol Association and the NRA issued statements hailing this as a good first step toward their ultimate (and likely unattainable, as long as Cuomo and Heastie are around) goal of full repeal.

Moving around the Region and observing the people as well as communicating with residents on issues, show how they yearn to see their lives improved by those who profess love to them, but it is apparent their hopes may continue to be unattainable as Ghana as a whole continues to battle for proper planning and policy implementation.

Commenting on the appointment she said «As a result of this Government's policies, owning a home is an unattainable dream for so many youngsters, and for countless people even having somewhere stable and affordable to call home is impossible».

This 2 - degree [Celsius, or 3.6 - degree Fahrenheit] change that everybody talks about [as a limit on warming], which is probably unattainable, has some serious ramifications for oceans.

One article looks at this new science, and sees it as proof of how unattainable such a scheme could be.

For many it seems completely unattainable, for others it is as natural as walking.

I assumed as much, surely unattainable..

However, as Christian Rudder says, these systems are, at the end of the day, striving to get as close as possible to an unattainable formula:

This slice of quirky life story about a classy, unattainable suit in a store window, is one classy movie as well, ennobling its host of eccentric and tragic, yet determined and struggling, vividly realized characters.

Included amongst them were Robert Iscove's Boys and Girls, which cast the actor as a college student, and Amy Heckerling's Loser, in which Biggs again set foot on a college campus to play a social misfit in love with an unattainable girl (Pie co-star Mena Suvari).

Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions of sensitive mime - actor Deburau (Jean - Louis Barrault) are entirely honorable; as a result, it is he who suffers most, hurdling one obstacle after another in pursuit of an evidently unattainable goal.

As the new kid in town, Bella attracts the eye of many of her male classmates, but the only one she finds appealing is the unattainable Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), whom her female friends advise her doesn't date.

As I arrived at Sundance Resort last week for the 30th edition of the Directors Lab, I hauled with me a convoy of nearly unattainable expectations.