Word: perfective
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After dutifully watching me practice rowing in the leaky wooden training box/boat without too much trouble—at one point even saying “that was a perfect stroke”—my kindly instructor left me sitting alone in the box to practice some more while he went to attend to whatever pressing things one attends to in a completely empty boathouse...
When knowledge of Sophia’s Salsa Wednesdays came our way, we whipped out our fiery red tops and black pants, perfect outfits for salsa—or so we hoped—and headed downtown...
...glad-handing, suited D.C. operative: it was Stephen Stills, the folk-rock icon of the 1960s and 70s. He delayed taking out his guitar in order to first sing the praises of Sen. John F. Kerry—and proved that music and political idealism are still perfect bedmates...
...whistle the tune from “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the smash single Stills penned, they don’t realize that they’re singing the catch phrases of radical politics. Take another listen: after seven-odd minutes of folky guitar licks, pitch-perfect harmonies and snatches of soul-baring poetry, Stills starts crooning something in Spanish about Cuba...
...Klein hit the perfect putt and watched as his white ball disappeared into the cup, giving him a feeling that something special might happen...