He has just that air and reputation of faultlessness that gives me the spleen. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
And through their clothes choices, the parents have created the kind of honeyed faultlessness that jams mailboxes every December when personalized Christmas cards arrive bringing greetings "to you and yours" from the Blake family or the Joneses. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Devaluing the Pulitzers] Reference
The personality paints itself into a corner from which there is no escape, therefore it reinforces this conviction of ‘rightness’, refuses to acknowledge all and everything, which does not conform to the picture and the feeling of ‘faultlessness’. From Wordnik.com. [My Country, right or wrong?] Reference
But the thing that stood out for me, and the thing that has me holding this as a great gig, was the frequent and long periods of sheer faultlessness. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
The influence of light faultlessness and quality of work is considerably. From Wordnik.com. [4. Electrical Energy] Reference
Dead-ripeness in a first book is a fatal symptom, sure sign that the writer is doomed forever to that pale limbo of faultlessness from which there is no escape upwards or downwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
He was a stranger, evidently; a stranger with a high regard for the faultlessness of male attire. From Wordnik.com. [The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories] Reference
While the world lasts, no architect can arise to create a building more satisfying, more calm with the calm of faultlessness, more serene with a just serenity. From Wordnik.com. [The Spell of Egypt] Reference
And Martha's glance, in modest overwhelming of modesty by what she saw, dropped down the splendid breast of her and generously true lines of body to the feet, silken clad, high-heeled-slippered, small, plump, with an almost Spanish arch and faultlessness of instep. From Wordnik.com. [On the Makaloa Mat] Reference
Job had maintained his sincerity against his friends suspicions, not faultlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The faultlessness of his speech and the unemotional but perfect inflection of his words made. From Wordnik.com. [The River's End] Reference
I used rather to hate him for his faultlessness, and his familiarity with what awed my ignorance. '. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
There might seem to be no place left for novelty or originality, -- place only for a patient, an infinite, faultlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1] Reference
Even Nan, the unnoticing, noted the faultlessness of detail which characterised his attire, and had an instant perception that Ned. From Wordnik.com. [A Houseful of Girls] Reference
Could this be his ideal; the woman whom he had set so high above all others in the scale of heroic faultlessness and sublime devotion to principle?. From Wordnik.com. [The Price] Reference
An old cloak, intended as much to disguise as to protect him, did not quite conceal a faultlessness of costume beneath it, after the fashion of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Jan of the Windmill] Reference
It is true, there is at least as much attention paid to purity and faultlessness on the plains of Newmarket; but the application is to the blood and pedigree of the horse, not of his rider. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2] Reference
The story that his wife, a worthless woman, sat for his Madonnas, and the legends of his working for money to meet pressing needs, seem justified by numbers of his paintings, faulty in their faultlessness and want of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
Weave on anothah yeah and yet anothah, till thou, a woman grown, can measuah out a perfect web, moah ample than these stripling youths could carry, but which will fit thy prince in faultlessness, as the falcon's feathahs fit the falcon. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor] Reference
It was what in the old days she would have called "contradictions," but there it was, and she could not help it; the nearer George in her memory approached to faultlessness, the more obstinately her instinct fought against her child's imitation of him; and yet, because the child was obstinately. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship of Stars] Reference
This is, however, a mistake: his excellence is by no means faultlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
India, or Persia, the faultlessness and completeness of his teachings give them a position by themselves, and are among the strongest internal evidences of their divinity. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Moral Philosophy] Reference
Instead, we spend our lives searching for that one special person, whose Weltanschauung is so complete and so perfect that you can simply super-impose it on your own and bathe in its faultlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I am not sure that his prestige and charm were not increased by the faultlessness of his dress, and by the manifestations of the becoming in personal appearance, -- a well-known trait of his great kinsman, Daniel Webster, whom he not distantly resembled also in features, port, and step, and in distinct, measured utterance. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference
Rumour has it that at those high-powered fashion dinners he is a positive Little Lord Fauntleroy, fastidious in his faultlessness, until Herr Lagerfeld who is, after all, 56 years his senior heads for bed, at which point Baptiste rages and frotts and grinds just as a hot-blooded 21-year-old with every teenage French girl's heart in his back pocket should do. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
It is impossible for saints to attain to his faultlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
"prettiest" division, and in another grade of faultlessness the most free from faults, in ordinary estimation, of her entire production. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
If it was contrived, I doubt that you would have the taoiseach, the British Prime Minister and the possibility of the Americans becoming involved, "he said Chris Donnelly makes too much of Sinn Fein faultlessness, they've been playing their hand with their usual emotional intelligence (craftiness to you). From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
How does one attain to faultlessness of limbs?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
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