Word: defectively
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...much better company, and the celebration of the sexual instincts which they represent borders, at its best, on comic poetry. But this erotic yea-saying degenerates in lesser moments into remarkably explicit single-entendre that is crude without being funny. Crudity seems, generally speaking, to be the defect inherent in Brecht's attempt to simplify life to the point where it can be described in his almost-allegorical terms. His characters are often lifeless stick-figures whose only identity is a label, and his political and social pronouncements are over-stated, over-emphasized, over-dramatized past the point of exasperation...
...factor in this defect is the "obsessive, fetishistic" commitment of intellectuals to democracy. Democracy is "a procedure, not a policy;" yet in it all our hopes are vested, Buckley said...
...their job much more seriously and devoutly than English ones do... I admire this unreservedly.... The result when it's seen onstage is nearly always exciting, but you often get the feeling that the whole thing has been cooked up in a hermetically sealed oven. But that is the defect of a great virtue, which is work, work, work...
...student governing committee and began to be called sotsu-no-nai, which roughly means "perfect," but also has a snide connotation of being a little too perfect, too ladylike, too obedient to the rules. A professor once said with a touch of asperity: "Michiko-san, your only defect is that you have none." She appeared taken aback by the remark...
...number of A.P. Sophomores is increasing, since three girls managed to accumulate the necessary three credits for the first time this year, and were admitted to the 'Cliffe as Sophomores. One reason why only three have taken the proffered advancement seems to be lack of publicity, although this defect is rapidly being remedied. More-over, educators are not always in a hurry to expedite young ladies' schooling. The headmistress of a Midwestern girls' school says, "Girls are not going into careers right after college, the way boys are. I don't see any reason for shortening a girl's education...