Word: imperfectibility
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...negotiated cease-fire with Palestinian militants, Abbas can buy time until prospects of a concrete peace plan with Israel emerge and until the Palestinian Authority attains enough power to confront militants head-on. Such steps are needed to avoid a Palestinian civil war, and Abbas’ approach, while imperfect, deserves a chance...
...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...
...Several new books are leading the charge. Andrew Juniper's Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence and Taro Gold's Living Wabi Sabi: The True Beauty of Your Life explain how to apply the philosophy to life in general, while The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty, byRobyn Griggs Lawrence, zeroes in on applying the principles of wabi-sabi specifically to the home...
...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...