Word: imperfect
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...troops in China during World War II, he instructed his wife that their sons were to stick to Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese and not learn English until they got to America for a better chance of speaking it without an accent. As Sonia Ho recalls in careful but imperfect English, "When we first come to U.S., we don't know any words. David would come home from school and say, 'I don't know what they talking about.' I'd say, 'Oh, what are we going to do?'" Says David: "We hadn't even learned the ABC's. I remember...
Some of the Clintons' cultural normalcy is, of course, pure political theater, but some of it is who they genuinely are. Bill worries about his weight, Hillary frets that Chelsea may go too far away to college, together they work on their imperfect marriage. In this they are not so different from the rest of us. Which is probably why, in the early days of his term, when the Clintons spent a lot of time palling around with the likes of Barbra Streisand and, in the case of the President, being attended by a Beverly Hills stylist, they came across...
...because the Sunday school version of Genesis is a lot easier to handle than the real thing. And for those--arguably Moyers' primary audience--who still understand the book as a series of tableaux, a close encounter with the original text, its spiky narrative and decidedly imperfect heroes, may prove an alarming yet exhilarating experience...
While the same cannot be said for Galway Kinnell's poetry--it's full of flights of fancy and elaborate metaphors--it nevertheless shares with Hall's a quality of being designed for performance. The title of the volume, Imperfect Thirst, comes from the book's aptly chosen epigram: "If your eyes are not deceived by the mirage/Do not be proud of the sharpness of your understanding;/It may be your freedom from this optical illusion/Is due to the imperfection of your thirst." In other words, skepticism is the sign of spiritual deformity, rather than a necessary sign...
...from Galway Kinnell's Imperfect Thirst...