Pea's love, like Cyrano de Bergerac's, is a story of unattainability.
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Male-authored female literary characters have historically embodied characteristics like aloofness and unattainability.
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Do people really want these things or was the unattainability of them the biggest sales motivator?
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"It's about unattainability, but with the hint that you will be able to be attained," says Gillis.
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Havana, Cuba (CNN)For decades, Cuban cigars have been famous in the US for their intense, earthy flavor and near-unattainability.
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Instead, swimsuit models needed to embody effortless unattainability — posing in tropical locales, flashing even, white smiles, and, of course, appearing tanned, toned, and thin.
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But it seems the unattainability is what turns him on more than anything — he'll never be Japanese, just as he will never touch Hideko, despite psychosexually abusing her for years.
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Opie's film, "The Modernist," is about an arsonist who is obsessed with L.A.'s landmark mid-century houses, and, driven to madness by their unattainability, starts methodically burning them down.
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In other words, the collection doesn't seem to romanticize the provenance of artworks or their unattainability, but offers insights into the beginnings of art practices and artists who gave shape to today's contemporary art landscape.
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Resnais's depiction of the Bibliothèque Nationale betrays a modernist belief in the totality of the archive, but at the point of the disintegration of this belief, when it is faced with the unattainability of this totality.
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His aesthetic interests are simplicity and efficiency, his commercial interests are what could be called economically avant-garde — dramatic, cartoonish, garish markups of basic items marketed primarily to kids, by celebrities, turning unattainability into a sport and pastime.
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The artists intended it to be left unmaintained until its eventual decomposition into the surrounding desert, as a high-contrast monument to desire and unattainability, and perhaps a reminder of the ultimate transience of even the most powerful social signifiers.
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In the final gallery, Ben Cuevas riffs on both the primacy and (for many) unattainability of medication, Kia LaBeija unveils the emotional toll placed on those born HIV+, and Jeffrey Scott Wilson exposes how, to this day, the disease can immediately interrupt the course of one's livelihood.
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Eucalyptus tells the story of Ellen Holland, a young woman whose "speckled beauty" and unattainability become legend far beyond the rural western New South Wales town near the property where she grows up. Her protective father's obsession with collecting rare species of Eucalyptus trees leads him to propose a contest - the man who can correctly name all the species on his property shall win her hand in marriage.
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Mihaylovski's literary activity dates back to 1872 and the Istanbul-based Chitalishte magazine. His works fall into a variety of genres and spans fables, epigrams, maxims, parodies, poems and dramas. His fables, such as Eagle and Snail, Owl and Firefly, Axe and Pickaxe, are among Bulgarian literature's classics. A leading motive in his entire body of work is the perpetual unattainability of freedom and the triumph of mediocrity and oppression.
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What happens to us in our lives is determined by who we are. It talks about 'Self-fulfilling Prophecy' wherein a prophecy is made to a person and he, in the process of doing everything to prevent it from happening, actually goes about fulfilling it. The film is also about the unattainability of our most cherished dreams. All that we dream of in our lives, most often remain out of our reach.
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Schematic of bump-and-hole method. The bump-and-hole method is a tool in chemical genetics for studying a specific isoform in a protein family without perturbing the other members of the family. The unattainability of isoform- selective inhibition due to structural homology in protein families is a major challenge of chemical genetics. With the bump-and-hole approach, a protein–ligand interface is engineered to achieve selectivity through steric complementarity while maintaining biochemical competence and orthogonality to the wild type pair.
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In The Creation of Adam painted by Michelangelo (c. 1512), the two index fingers are separated by a small gap []: some scholars think that it represents the unattainability of divine perfection by man Negative theology has a place in the Western Christian tradition as well. The 9th-century theologian John Scotus Erigena wrote: When he says "He is not anything" and "God is not", Scotus does not mean that there is no God, but that God cannot be said to exist in the way that creation exists, i.e. that God is uncreated.
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Amour de loin ("Love from long away") is a term used in romances and their study. The term has been used subsequently to refer to women whose chief characteristic as love interests has been their unattainability. It may also be used metaphorically for unattainable objects or targets of various sorts. At times, the idealised lady of courtly love could be a princesse lointaine, a far-away princess, and some tales told of men who had fallen in love with women whom they had never seen, merely on hearing their perfection described, but normally she was not so distant.
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The narrative involves a world where astronauts, known as Spacers, are neutered before puberty to avoid the effects of space radiation on gametes. Aside from making them sterile, the neutering also prevents puberty from occurring and results in androgynous adults whose birth-sex is unclear to others. Spacers are fetishized by a subculture of "frelks", those attracted by the Spacers' supposed unattainability and unarousability ("free-fall-sexual-displacement complex"). "Frelk" is used as a derogatory term by the Spacers in the story, who engage in prostitution by accepting money to give frelks the sexual contact they desire.
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Detail showing intersection of first and second registers, with: a prophet, a lunette, a sibyl, ignudi, medallions, bronze figures, and telamones. Detail from The Creation of Adam, portraying the creation of mankind by God. The two index fingers are separated by a small gap []: some scholars think that it represents the unattainability of divine perfection by man Michelangelo's frescoes form the back-story to the 15th century narrative cycles of the lives of Moses and Christ by Perugio and Botticelli on the Chapel's walls. While the main central scenes depict incidents in the Book of Genesis, much debate exists on the multitudes of figures' exact interpretation.
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An endless-loop outgoing message tape used in dual- cassette-based answering machines Most modern answering machines have a system for greeting. The owner may record a message that will be played back to the caller, or an automatic message will be played if the owner does not record one. This holds especially for the TADs with digitally stored greeting messages or for earlier machines (before the rise of microcassettes) with a special endless loop tape, separate from a second cassette, dedicated to recording. There have been answer-only devices with no recording capabilities, where the greeting message had to inform callers of a state of current unattainability, or e.g.
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Hellenic Army formation in the World War I Victory Parade in Arc de Triomphe, Paris, July 1919. Amidst general dissatisfaction with the seeming inertia and unattainability of national aspirations under the premiership of the cautious reformist Theotokis, a group of military officers organised a coup in August 1909 and shortly thereafter called to Athens Cretan politician Eleftherios Venizelos, who conveyed a vision of national regeneration. After winning two elections and becoming Prime Minister in 1910, Venizelos initiated wide-ranging fiscal, social, and constitutional reforms, reorganised the military, made Greece a member of the Balkan League, and led the country through the Balkan Wars. By 1913, Greece's territory and population had almost doubled, annexing Crete, Epirus, and Macedonia.
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Anne Nurmi Tilo Wolff Lacrimosa's first album, Angst, is a very gloomy piece of slow, rather minimal music, dominated by keyboards and a depressed, sometimes frantic and insane, voice. In this early period, the themes explored through lyrics and music are of a very bleak nature, such as fear; helplessness; loneliness; the non-existence, unattainability or illusionary nature of love; and death. The same thematic preoccupations can be found on the next three albums, Einsamkeit, Satura and Inferno, but now and then a more positive note begins to sound in the dismal tapestry. Musically, this period is characterised by the introduction of electric guitars and basses, with more and more rock elements being added to the slow, keyboard-based music of the earliest album.
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Petrarch made the story in the Metamorphoses the dominant myth of the longest poem in the sequence, Canzoniere 23. This poem is a virtuoso sequence of a half dozen Ovidian myths, from Apollo and Daphne to Actaeon and Diana, offered up as figuration of the poet's own subjective experience; it has become known as the canzone della metamorfosi, a sustained “lyricization of epic materials,” which effectively rewrites Ovid's long poem as erotic and professional autobiography. This incorporation of the Metamorphoses into lyricism has momentous consequences for the following history of Petrarchanism, whereas poets such as Pierre de Ronsard and Barnabe Barnes, used each of the Ovidian myths as a figure for achieved sexual intercourse. Within the lyric sequence, such evocations play against the expectation of female unattainability, which is also one of Petrarch's legacies, and contribute powerfully to Petrarchanism's reputation for shameless and often bizarre sensuality.
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