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Word: imperfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little flourishes. The sample, like much of Kanye’s sources, is sublimated into a wisp of texture that sticks indelibly in your mind. It’s that sensitivity to sound itself that gives these potentially awkward mini-epics their fragile beauty. They’re pretentious, imperfect and overwrought, and flawlessly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diamonds in the Rough | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...More than a dozen other flights to or from Paris, London, Los Angeles, Washington, Riyadh and Mexico City were scrapped in a week and a half, starting on Christmas Eve. It was a strange period of aviation lottery that may become more commonplace as authorities continue to hunt, with imperfect information, for would-be al-Qaeda hijackers. All told, at least 27 flights were canceled, detained, rerouted or tailed by fighter jets--ready, as a last resort, to shoot down the planes should they deviate from their courses. We may never know whether an attack was prevented. What is clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grounded By Terror | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

Meacham's study is a close-focus historical tracking shot of the two men, very human, heroic and imperfect, moving along through--and making--great history. --By Lance Morrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Men | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...something profound about their relationship. The same way with the (also clothed) bathtub embrace between Albert Finney and Jessica Lange in Big Fish. On the other hand, the buck-naked romping of William H. Macy and Maria Bello in The Cooler is just as informative. Their bodies may be imperfect, but their pleasure is infectious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Sex: Love Among the Ruins | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...point at which too much democracy, like too much pastis before dinner, can lead to a kind of facile and simplistic drunkenness. For, though money may well be at the root of all evil, it can also pave the road to a greater justice, a more benevolent, though still imperfect, world. Indeed, the one major difference I have thus far seen between the supposedly "élite" university where I also teach - the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris, for which most must pass an entrance exam and pay around 31,000 in annual tuition - and the more "democratic" ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Whom the School Bell Tolls | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

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