To make matters worse, ordinary Libyans harbour impossibly high hopes for the post-sanctions era.
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He's aiming impossibly high again, making big headlines for transplanting the entire genome of one species of bacterium into another.
Republicans sought to raise expectations impossibly high, by predicting that he would get a 15% post-convention bounce in the polls.
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To be fair to Ms Rice, the bar she had to jump over was, in some instances, impossibly high thanks to the obstructionism of her colleagues.
In those circumstances, austerity programmes would become a prison with impossibly high walls, not a route back to rehabilitation and credibility in the eyes of commercial investors.
Upon hearing Hanson's third full-length record, Madam Owl, the first thing anyone will notice is the singer's impossibly high voice that sounds more like a female vocalist than a 30 year old man.
The floors and even the wooden elevator are covered with terra-cotta and ceramic tiles recovered from old Lebanese houses, while the ceilings are all impossibly high, true to Lebanese architectural tradition.
Less staff means, of course, longer delays and impossibly high workloads for individual investigators and mediators, and may all but vanquish the efficiency of administrative procedures envisioned in the anti-discrimination laws.
The longer the pound stays high, therefore, the greater the chance that, if Britain joins the single currency, it will have to do so at a rate that a few years ago would have been thought impossibly high.
As for Sale, his strand rate of 94.4% is impossibly high and his miniscule 0.57 ERA is bound to rise, but he has notched two saves so far this month, and manager Ozzie Guillen has even named him the official closer, sort of.
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I've opted not to lose any sleep over this dilemma for now, as the prospect of a high-speed rail line seems impossibly distant.
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