Adjective : imperfect vision. ,imperfect knowledge. From Dictionary.com.
And relying on the "imperfectness" of man is dangerous work. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
For observe, I have only dwelt upon the rudeness of Gothic, or any other kind of imperfectness, as admirable, where it was impossible to get design or thought without it. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
But it was Mrs. Par I found most convincing in her imperfectness. From Wordnik.com. [The Incredibles] Reference
I love the song, the lyrics, the melody, the imperfectness adding up to perfection. From Wordnik.com. [sensitive] Reference
With his eye fixed on the Perfect, he makes no allowance for the imperfectness of those who are struggling toward it. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
If I really believed that voice I might not have noticed those mean words reflecting intolerance for my imperfectness. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Shure and Beth Weinstock: Musings From Two Therapists] Reference
I own the imperfectness of this transcript, but I still present it as something of worth, since there are so few accounts out there. From Wordnik.com. [This Post is Rated Ex, for Excommunication. | Mind on Fire] Reference
Those ways we judge ourselves and exaggerate the importance of our imperfectness make it so much harder to develop the awareness we need. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Shure: The Tyranny of Perfection] Reference
The imperfectness of our public libraries compels every student to depend more or less upon his own private collection of books; and it is a fact of some significance, that, with the single exception of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
And if things go my way, I will one day see Claudia in all of her imperfectness, created by this imperfect writer sitting a little bit crooked on shelves in bookstores all over the world- that is, of course, in a perfect world. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
In view of the imperfectness of the results thus far obtained, I should consider the present work premature, did I not find a justification for it in my desire to induce other and abler observers to investigate the subject, and place it on whatever footing it may merit. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Will I undergo whatever imperishable moulding imperfectness mass surgery?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
(I undergo every surgery has risks) What are the chances of moulding imperfectness later?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Judges of the same special panel rejected the first proposal to dissolve the DS last year, citing lack of evidence and overall formal imperfectness. From Wordnik.com. [Prague Monitor] Reference
Carpal delve syndrome is decent more ordinary pure discompose and pulse as substantially as imperfectness or numbness in the wrists, fingers and hands. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
But the imperfectness of our instruments and means of observation have no small tendency to baffle the ambition of man in these curious investigations. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
Someday their talent for hieroglyphics will fade as I catch up with my Magic Erasing and it will long be a memory, the days I was sadly ashamed of the imperfectness. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Babywearing] Reference
Who knows whether all the crookedness of the world does not spring from the non-fulfilment of certain laws, and whether that be not the cause of the imperfectness of life?. From Wordnik.com. [Without Dogma] Reference
He felt almost a touch of self-pity at his own imperfectness; and the power of his will and his confidence in himself, of which he was so proud, seemed misplaced and little. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers of Fortune] Reference
For my part, I generally took the author's meaning to be as you have explained it; yet their authority, joined to the knowledge of my own imperfectness in the language, overruled me. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
A website (or building) where everything lines up pixel-perfectly, as soon as something is just slightly malplaced the entire thing collapses - while other designs almost craves imperfectness. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0] Reference
He who acknowledges the imperfectness of his instrument, and makes allowance for it in discussing his observations, is in a much better position for gaining truth than if he claimed his instrument to be infallible. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
This has probably caused the imperfectness of the manuscript in the above passage; though, at the same time, it must be acknowledged to be somewhat uncertain, whether Darnford is the stranger intended in this place. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
What of the ideal which saw the crown of life in passion triumphant, which dreaded imperfectness, which allowed the claims of sense equally with those of spirit, both having their indispensable part in the complete existence?. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
Maybe the Spanish government just does not take the severe measures that are obvious needed, because they are afraid not to survive the next elections if they do, and does this show us some imperfectness of the democratic system in handling crises. From Wordnik.com. [A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros] Reference
For the sake of study and musical acquisition, it boldly grappled with the difficult works of eminent masters, and with whatever necessary imperfectness of actual performance, it was with sure and lasting results of musical ability and taste and knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference
All land that is waste and ugly, you must redeem into ordered fruitfulness; all ruin, desolateness, imperfectness of hut or habitation, you must do away with; and throughout every village and city of your English dominion there must not be a hand that cannot find a helper, nor a heart that cannot find a comforter. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
A different light; and they may possibly be right and I wrong; for, fully conscious of the imperfectness and general obliquity of all men's vision, I am not so fool-hardy as to swear that the shield whose legend I read so plainly, bears the same device upon its other side. From Wordnik.com. [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference
I accept the imperfectness. From Wordnik.com. [Jenni Schaefer: Fuzz Balls: Gratitude in Everyday Life] Reference
It protects against hooligan imperfectness and aids in trice regulation. (. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"I see," she said, "that your trials are in vain, not from the fault of the wings and their appurtenances, nor from any imperfectness and malformation of your own corpuscular system, but from irremediable, because organic, defect in your power of volition. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
My onion is imperfectness: I cleave. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference
A refuge from calamity, trusting that the power who has seen good to afflict me, will pardon the imperfectness of my devotion, and the too frequent wandering of my thoughts to the object once so dear to me.’. From Wordnik.com. [A Sicilian Romance] Reference
2003-12-18; 10: 09 p.m. '//seen by you what are the chances of me and you? of me, this deluctable fat pig with candy bars as powerades ... of me wobbling about, churning envelops of skins flabbing unto my bones ... nobody sees me, because i am invinsible to their eyes, imperfectness can never be recognized by society. From Wordnik.com. [2003-12-18;10:09 p.m.' //seen by you] Reference
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