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Her friends and professional associates would sympathize with her, not because she had lost a beloved husband, but because she had been married to a man who thought unrealistically.

In the 1980s Guyana Airways Corporation's domestic operations started to deteriorate for a number of reasons, not least among them the unrealistically low fares it was required to charge and the lack of access to foreign exchange for imported aircraft parts and other requirements.

Bickel argues that Marshall's argument implies an unrealistically mechanical view of jurisprudence, one which suggests that the Court has an absolute duty to strike down every law it finds violative of the Constitution.

Utilitarians argue that justification of slavery, torture or mass murder would require unrealistically large benefits to outweigh the direct and extreme suffering to victims.

But part of the problem was that the financial predictions were based on an unrealistically high forecast of visitor numbers at 12 million.

Yorke's arrival prompted charges that the programme was importing the values of EastEnders to Borsetshire, with fans and commentators complaining that characters were behaving unrealistically simply to generate conflict.

Several legendary sources tend to assign unrealistically long lifespans to pre-historical heroes and monarchs ( e. g., Egyptian, Chinese, Hebrews, Japanese ), if the number of years there reported are understood as years of more than 340 days.

* Dream world ( plot device ), an unrealistically delightful fictional place

Based on an assumption of unrealistically low convergence in details of plumage and behavior, 5 subfamilies were distinguished.

In fact, the Mayo Clinic doctors painted an unrealistically optimistic picture of Gehrig's condition and prospects, reportedly at his wife's request.

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

Susanna's father, Samuel Kittridge, another professor at Walter's college, becomes suspicious of Walter because he doesn't appear to have aged in the 12 years they have known each other and seems to have unrealistically detailed knowledge of some pieces of history that don't appear in texts.

Polydore Vergil appears to have suggested that Leland had been unrealistically over-ambitious: he was " a vaynegloryouse persone, whyche woulde promyse more, than ever he was able or intended to perfourme ".

Instead, the narcissist emphasizes his virtues in the presence of others, just to try to convince himself that he is a valuable person and to try to stop feeling ashamed for his faults ; unfortunately such ' people with unrealistically inflated self-views, which may be especially unstable and highly vulnerable to negative information ... tend to have poor social skills '.

According to John Ruskin's biographer Mary Lutyens, the notable author, artist, and art critic was apparently accustomed only to the hairless nudes portrayed unrealistically in art, never having seen a naked woman before his wedding night.

Linda mostly just smiles and nods when Willy talks unrealistically about hopes for the future, although she seems to have a good knowledge of what is really going on.

David McKay says these results were obtained using unrealistically pure raw materials as a starting point, and " will not explain many of the features described by us in ALH84001.

and assuming ( perhaps unrealistically ) that a sum equal to P is reinvested ( with or without the aid of credit ) with zero price inflation, we can construct a series of annual business results, starting off with K =

Ultimately, even if succession tends towards a steady state, the time required to achieve this state is unrealistically long ; in most cases, external disturbances and environmental change occur so frequently that the realization of a climax community is unlikely, and therefore it has come to be regarded as a less useful concept.

# is unrealistically preoccupied with fears of being left to take care of himself or herself

As a gag, they give Fred the task of finding an unrealistically inexpensive apartment and a blonde " companion " to go with it.

He added that " I'll be leaving Opus in a way that it should be very clear that this time there's no going back home " and that he felt " unrealistically emotional " about drawing the final Opus strip and writing a final ending.

The condition occurs when two or more areas of a product team claim they can deliver features at an unrealistically early date because each assumes the other teams are stretching the predictions even more than they are.

The Treaty of Medicine Creek, signed in 1855, established an unrealistically small reservation on poor land for the Nisqually and Puyallup people.

Conrad often proposed unrealistically grandiose plans, disregarding the realities of terrain and climate.