But the management has a point when it says the Met is being held to an impossible standard.

And you can't help measuring yourself, if only a little bit by that impossible standard.

She's knocking herself out to live up to your impossible standards, which even you can't always do.

That was, of course, the impossible standard to which all in the Agency were held.

"Isn't it interesting how we set these impossible standards for ourselves?"

It is as if each production has to be measured against an impossible standard.

But that is also an impossible standard to hold the city to.

Going back rarely works, especially if you're 34 and have already set some impossible standards.

It set an almost impossible artistic standard to live up to.

These teenagers, she said, are being raised to please adults and held to impossible standards.