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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Then Westmore had deepened, as it always did, the impression of unattainability that Judith gave.

From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth