Word: imperfectible
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Shadows. Earnest amateurs improvise an imperfect but powerful work of folk art in a tawdry Manhattan setting...
Shadows. Earnest amateurs improvise an imperfect but powerful work of folk art in a tawdry New York setting...
...original sponsor of the Peace Corps legislation in the Senate, Humphrey warned the delegates that this would be a typical United States program--"imperfect." Americans will have to expect mistakes, but for every person who comes back converted to communism there will be a thousand who will do their assignments sucessfully, Humphrey said...
...take it on the lam westward, one jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik sits in a druggist's window advertising the shocking effects of not drinking cod liver oil; later he understudies...
...leave me no choice but to point out that Hindus find the Biblical concept of God as a vengeful, peeking, bumbling fellow who botched his job so badly that he created man imperfect, then cursed the whole race of man for the same imperfection, and could find no better way out of the dilemma than to allow his "son" to die a tortured death even more absurd...