Word: imperfect
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...haven't mastered the art of feng shui and don't know exactly where your red should be to bring you money, luck or love, never fear: wabi-sabi, the latest Asian-inspired design craze, is here. With its celebration of the imperfect, unpredictable and incomplete, wabi-sabi is a much more forgiving style than its predecessor...
...best now with a very imperfect system. You can call it being caught between a rock and a hard place,” Gordon said. “We have to offer good teaching to undergraduates…[but] there’s a lot of pressure to put graduate students in the classroom [as section leaders...
...given Alan a disapproved-of horseback ride at the beach, we can see the danger in pathologizing Alan’s behavior as a reaction to his parents—or even, as the play suggests, as any more pathological than that of a normal, imperfect person...
...language all of its own—“with its own vocabulary, grammar, and syntax…poetry and prose”—we see that the reproduction of a work of art by any printed mechanism is in fact a translation, and therefore imperfect: a variation. In translation, the Ingres loses its chubbiness and cheerfulness but attains a sort of depth in its new black and white form that prefigures the transformation of depth of representation that would take place with the tension of photography’s acceleration of this mechanical picturing...
...onto the surface, giving the work a splattery, fuzzy tone. But even the graphics, mostly rendered in a palette of grays with brief bursts of color, has an unappealing drabness to it. Kids will almost certainly find it dreary. "Sticks and Stones" means well, but manages to find an imperfect middle ground between art and politics...