impossible ideal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimpossibleandideal
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impossible
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/us/ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
If an action or event is impossible, it cannot happen or ...
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ideal
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪəl/us/aɪˈdiː.əl/
a principle or a way of behaving that is of a very ...
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(Definition ofimpossibleandidealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofimpossible ideal
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Some critics see this attempt to serve the interests both of animals and of science as animpossibleideal.
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Institutional representations and images of successful anti-ageing, such as those promoted in active retirement living, are insidious in that they cultivate and parade animpossibleideal.
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He was educated in the tradition which conceived man as an imperfect knower, and he became more and more convinced that a psychotherapist without a neurosis was animpossibleideal.
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The question of economy is not at all animpossibleidealfor us to hold up.
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This soands—it is meant to sound—solemn and abstract; but no one, surely, can describe it as animpossibleideal.
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They rightly stated that "the remission of unpayable debt of the world's most indebted countries was no longer animpossibleidealbut a practical necessity".
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That is not animpossibleideal.
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However hard one may try to remove all uncertainty and induce perfect symmetry perfection is animpossibleidealthat eludes humans.
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Platonic notions of reaching towards a nearlyimpossibleidealof beauty, wisdom, and perfection encompass the whole of his work.
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One has only to read the nursing journals to realise the almost impossible ideals that they set themselves.
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