unattainability

Example Sentences

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Angela Bassett's righteous edge in speaking about the unattainability of the white American dream in its fullness comes from a real and felt place, and you'll feel it too.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020

This theme does not easily catch the modern fancy; after all, the roll of centuries has only emphasized the unattainability of Dion's dream.

From Time Magazine Archive

The play's structure--overlapping reminiscences and flashbacks--suggests the unattainability of objective truth and the aching burden of memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

The virtue of an ideal is its unattainability.

From The Feast of St. Friend by Bennett, Arnold

Craig, eyeing his bride covertly, had a sense of her remoteness, her unattainability.

From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham