Word: imperfectionable
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The problem is not sufficiently abstruse to require the services of a logician. A mere student of semasiology will recognize the employment of the word accident in this case as being entirely dependent upon the motive and intent of the golfer. . . . The result of the manner in which he uses...
It must be conceded that the general goal toward which the Council committee strove was an admirable one. Any elimination of "vagueness, planlessness, and lack of logic" in the system of admissions is to be welcomed. And conversely, any definition of standards--provided that these standards are not made absolute...
Against this background Philip's virtues were bound to make a brilliant showing. Possessed of great personal grace, gentle, straightforward, courageous, scholarly, witty, accomplished at tennis, dancing, horsemanship, his only imperfection appears not yet to have been discovered. Traveling abroad between the ages of 17 and 20, young Sidney...
It is a bold attempt, nevertheless, and embodies a real philosophy. The theory of eternal strife assumes a futuristic form as the Age of Science tempestuously follows its course to a "sane and practical" Utopia. Futility, the imperfection of mere humanity, the loss of individuality, and the desire for happiness...
When college rules demand signatures, and that natural feeling of imperfection that resides in youth demands official consultation on important academic problems, the student is confronted with the insuperable barrier that the vaunted inaccessibility of such men presents. It is only natural that men concerned with administrative problems must plot...