Word: imperfectionable
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Corzo notes that the artisans who labored in the tomb three millenniums ago left unexpected evidence of their fallibility. The rows of stars in the funerary ceiling were kept straight by strings stretched from wall to wall. In the sarcophagus chamber, conservators discovered a row of fingerprints left along a...
Berger becomes frustrated with language, too, when it fails to rise above fragmentation. In the essay "A Professional Secret," he battles against language that loses its pictorial power, its signifying power: "Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; when this happens it can go straight to the cultivated...
In his sailing days he was rarely home, and during one period he missed three consecutive Christmases. When he did spend time with his family, says his eldest son Teddy, he behaved as though "kids were a necessary evil." He forbade crying, snapped at the slightest imperfection (such as a...
Everyone tells the models they're gorgeous, but as long as they work they must guard against imperfection -- the bloodshot eye, the puffy face. They diet rigorously, and smoke to keep the weight off. Even on good days, models fret that they are not perfect enough. "A girl comes to...
There is a certain symmetry of the childish in the King case. Something childish in King's student mind was still copying out of encyclopedias, just as something immature in his sexual development had him going obsessively after women. And something childish in every mind rejects imperfection in heroes. King...