Word: imperfect
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...polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts to balance the budget. Each had his or her interest by which to measure the message, but few seemed to bury their special sensitivities for something we used to call the national interest. That was always a vague and imperfect cry for unity, but it brought a hoarse admission of oneness...
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow: the past imperfect, done with syncopation and high style...
...Derek, the Perfect 10, make way for Bob Greene, the Imperfect 2½. Greene, 32, a Chicago Tribune columnist, has joined the ranks of four-color sex symbols with his own 16-in. by 22-in. poster. The work depicts him posing in a motel room door, his shirt slashed to the navel. Greene's pinup career began when he set out to do a column on the superstar poster business and called Marketcom/Crosswinds Corp., a Fenton, Mo., firm specializing in posters of big-name athletes. "One thing led to another, and we decided he could...
...People ask me how I can justify selling cookies with sugar after running a dental program. It's good sugar. It's an imperfect world, but we put the best cookies we can in it." He pushes himself away from the table he's been leaning on, and says, "We're selling good stuff, and I feel good about...
...lurch toward either isolationism or global intervention had to be cured by making judgments according to some more permanent conception of national interest. It was no use rushing forth impetuously when excited, or sulking in our tent when disappointed. We would have to learn to reconcile ourselves to imperfect choices, partial fulfillment, the unsatisfying tasks of balance and maneuver...