Sentences with phrase «pipe dream of a person»

If befriending a Velociraptor while waiting for the bus sounds like the pipe dream of a person who's watched Jurassic World one too many times, you'd be right.

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They want you Christians to stop making other people act a certain way because of your unsubstantiated pipe dreams.
What kind of person's pipe dreams revolve around seemingly unattainable yeasted baked goods?
I would love to take Giroud out of the equation last season, remove his goals last season to show ignorant people what league position we would have finished in, a league position which makes all those fantasy players a pipe dream because they only move to teams in the Champions League.
Much more important, no question of a second referendum to give people a chance to change their minds because circumstances have changed, or because the promises made by Brexit supporters have proved to be no more than pipe dreams.
«We are proud of the fact that we took permanent affordability from a pipe dream to something that people saw as realistic and implementable.»
Hollywood's scripted impression of romance is not representational in any way shape or form of a real persons life, yet so many ordinary people subconsciously strive to live up to these pipe dreams.
The amazing thing is, there's a group of people for whom this is clearly more than a pipe dream.
Not to mention the people that spend money, sometimes apparently a lot, on these pipe dreams expecting something to actually come of it.
Many of his early subjects were teenagers, striking poses that imitated the blueprints of the movie and music industries with their meticulously staged dreams of the good life: visions of self - determination and resistance, grand gestures, and communities that stick together; pipe dreams that recur in the aspirational self - conceptions of many of the people Zielony meets.
I suppose coal seams are also often only a few inches thick and prospectors will go to the trouble of blowing off mountaintops to get at the coal, yet that seems almost like a sane plan compared to what people have as pipe dreams for methane hydrates.
When the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) was first founded in a quarry in Wales, most people thought it was a bunch of hippies pursuing an idealist pipe dream.
The result: Suddenly, getting a device with good hardware and high - end performance (contrary to what a lot of people believe, the Vibe X2 and Honour 6 are very good performers) for a price that was in the region of Rs 20,000 was not a pipe dream.
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