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unattainability

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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

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

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

The virtue of an ideal is its unattainability.

From The Feast of St. Friend by Arnold Bennett