Word: perfective
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...Another, unquestionably, would be George Clooney. He has all the old qualities: classically handsome but not intimidatingly so, looking perfect and comfortable in a tuxedo, and so at ease with his natural appeal - his Georgeness - that he needn't rev up or Method up a performance to screaming volume. After all, he came out of TV, where the goal is to be ingratiating, not from the stage or indie films, where the goal is threefold: sulk, simmer and explode. Clooney glides and purrs through his movies (and his public appearances) with a grace both manly and feline...
...says. "There's almost a reverse snobbery today: people really like the idea of mixing a variety of price points." In other words, few fashionistas think twice about pairing a $1,000 jacket with a $20 T shirt anymore. Launching Moss's opening collection in Barneys, Burke says, makes "perfect sense...
...leader on everything, but on environmental stuff it’s very clear we have to set the bar high and set it way out in front of us," said Seidel, who went to college in Berkeley, Calif., a city noted for its environmentalism. "We're the perfect size, we have plenty of resources, and we have lots of bright ideas. Cambridge ought to set a model for other cities to follow...
After the event, however, Patel acknowledged that the large crowd drawn by Primal Scream made it a “perfect venue...
...only not a perfect system, the death penalty accomplishes nothing," says Rob Warden, who heads up the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University's Law School. "Quite the contrary. It doesn't deter crime, and it's very costly. Not just financially, but socially. We have some evidence in all of the cases where people are currently on death row in this state that the defendants were mentally ill - psychologically, if not legally - and there will be so many appeals and years will pass before these are resolved that couldn't, actually couldn't, see an execution in this...