impossibility

She said: "I went back to work post maternity leave. It has always felt impossible. Every day has felt like an exercise in logistical impossibilities, and we got through it."

In such an environment, a 3% inflation rate is less a policy failure than an adaptation—the by-product of an economy adjusting to a chronic government deficit and the political impossibility of fiscal consolidation.

But escape from the irritations of that companionship seems a still bleaker prospect—and an impossibility.

It also feels like this enormous amount of pressure and impossibility, and that you’re in a David and Goliath struggle.

To Andrew Friedman, something like this was a virtual impossibility.