Word: imperfectible
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...best in the book is its ring of truth. The natives and the British whites speak and act with absolute naturalness. Gary describes the Nigerian landscape, soldiers on the march, and a tribal attack with casual excellence. And he misses few of the ironies of a situation in which imperfect Christians try to perfect the savages...
...film momentarily, but he goes away. Four dissatisfied wives, to put the matter redundantly, are having coffee in a summerhouse. While they wait for their husbands to arrive for the weekend, each tells of the moment when she became resigned to the clod she married. In the brilliant, imperfect episodes that follow, Bergman illustrates the Chesterfieldian proposition that he went on to prove later in Smiles of a Summer Night and A Lesson in Love: the position is indeed ridiculous, but the pleasure is anything but momentary if one is making one's mate look foolish...
...bearded dictator made clear his contribution to the cause of Communism, if not of peace. Proclaimed Castro: "This is a socialist regime. Yes, this is a socialist regime"-and he seemed to mean not just a welfare state, but socialist in the way Communist states describe themselves, an imperfect stage on the way to true Communism...
...Country. The early years of Freud are presented in an imperfect but successful marriage of document and drama. Steven Hill is able as the struggling psychoanalyst, and Kim Stanley is excellent as his patient...
Shadows. Earnest amateurs improvise an imperfect but powerful work of folk art in a tawdry Manhattan setting...