Word: imperfectionable
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In any event, there is much resentment abroad that foreign bids are first invited, and that when successful they are then rejected on grounds which should have precluded their invitation. Secretary Dulles, hard pressed, conceded this "imperfection," but found the decision satisfying. His remark failed to comfort the British government...
Mortality and immortality as they combine in human beings, and especially in lovers, are the great motifs of her work. Time runs through all the poems, destroying what has been beloved and bringing forth new loveliness in its place with the renewal of seasons and of generations. And with this...
MINE THE HARVEST, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, consisted of 66 poems left by the passionate lyricist of the '20s when she died in 1950. No Greenwich Village candle burning at both ends here, but mature contemplation of man and nature and the sad imperfection of both.
Some, including 1949's Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner, think that his world is too narrow. "[Hemingway] has no courage," Faulkner once said. "[He] has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary...
Let us rather understand it as an admission of national imperfection and incompleteness. It is a declaration of internationalism because we know that God loves all men impartially; a confession of sin because we know that only Christ is without sin; a cry of weakness because we know that our...