Word: imperfectible
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Clearly, Fischl wants an overall look that is not too finished, consistently "imperfect," with an air of unconcern for its own pictorial mechanism -- the creamy, dashed-off realism of a Manet oil sketch. But this requires a mastery over the detail and frequency of brushstrokes, and a certainty about the drawing embedded in them, that he has not yet attained. He will slide from a passage of near virtuoso colloquialism to one of awkward smearing and prodding, and not fix -- maybe not see -- the difference...
...imperfect one, say some Indians. State courts can retain decision- making power in custody cases by invoking a "good cause" provision -- for instance, if there is reason to believe the child might be neglected or abused on the reservation. That provision is interpreted too freely, says Attorney Jacqueline Agtuca, an Indian advocate at the Legal Assistance Foundation in Chicago...
Further afield, many Swaggart fans appeared eager to forgive, if not to forget. Said Mavis Peterson, a retiree in Springfield who has watched the evangelist's shows for a decade: "Brother Swaggart is an imperfect human being, but the Bible says those who love the Lord and seek the truth shall have their sins forgiven if they repent." Still, there is doubt whether Swaggart will ever again have the same level of revival stardom or draw such big TV and in-person audiences in the U.S. and overseas...
...most students said they thought that registration, while it has some drawbacks, should not be lambasted. It works, they said, even if it is imperfect. "After all, you get to see people you don't see often," said Wiviott...
Although the 24 outside legal scholars contacted for this article have not all benefited from first hand experience of life at Harvard--and many refused to comment because they said they had imperfect information--all had read about the problems at the Law School and heard about them from their friends at the University...