Pike thought of a conversation he'd had with an unattainable woman just weeks before the accident that had brought him here.
A man in the grip of an obsession with a tantalizing and perhaps unattainable woman is a man who would go far to impress her.
The poem clearly struck a chord with Beethoven, whose personal life often centered on his yearnings for idealized and unattainable women.
Andersen often fell in love with unattainable women and many of his stories are interpreted as references.
Here reference is not made to the love of the unattainable woman, the love from afar of troubadour poetry.
During the convoluted course of his adventures, Edward inevitably fixates on an unattainable woman.
Those sensations made me see New York as the ultimate unattainable woman.
However, until recently, Bianca fell exclusively for perceived straight or unattainable women, which prevented her from having an on-screen girlfriend.
Love for an unattainable woman had cost him his profession, cut his faith not only in his God but in himself to ribbons.
Newly revealed here are the far less arch love letters he wrote to unattainable women.