unattainability

Many of my generation were raised with a rigid idea about what we were supposed to look like -- and with its evil twin, the unattainability of that image.

Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011

Many of my generation were raised with a rigid idea about what we were supposed to look like -- and with its evil twin, the unattainability of that image.

Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011

Many of my generation were raised with a rigid idea about what we were supposed to look like -- and with its evil twin, the unattainability of that image.

Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011

Reteaming with director James Gray for the third time, the actor lays bare the soul of a troubled romantic torn between settling for the “right girl” (a fetching family friend, played by Vinessa Shaw, with the maternal instincts to handle his depressive tendencies) and chasing after the wrong one (Gwyneth Paltrow, delivering her most nuanced performance yet as a woman whose allure rests in her very unattainability).

Peter Debruge’s Top 10 of 2009 – Collider.com 2009

Many of my generation were raised with a rigid idea about what we were supposed to look like -- and with its evil twin, the unattainability of that image.

Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011

Many of my generation were raised with a rigid idea about what we were supposed to look like -- and with its evil twin, the unattainability of that image.

Dominique Browning: Chinese Tiger Mothers? Kittens Compared to French Mothers. Why Any Fear Model Is the Wrong Way to Go Dominique Browning 2011

The attraction of red-eyed, sneezing women, according to Milton Ornstein, a professor of psychology at Brandeis University, lies in their unattainability.

Women With Colds and the Men Who Love Them 2010

The common wisdom about the pitfalls of 35-plus motherhood goes against what's happening in the tabloids, of course, unattainability being their bread and butter.

Vanessa Richmond: No Baby for Old Men? 2009

Great Regulars: After all, we humans seem to have a craving for certainty, often in direct proportion to its unattainability.

Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Days too perfect in memory and endless enigma of nostalgia painful in unattainability;

Suburban Summer Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2009