Out of fragments full of imperfection was indulgently raised up a stately and inaccessible whole.
In concept, at least, the cure--accepting a little imperfection, a few weeds, some patches of brown--is simple.
The paper's imperfection is a selling point: "People can understand how this was once poo, " says Flancman.
On the other hand, some things are constant, such as human imperfection, injustice, misery and bad government.
The Japanese aesthetic called wabi sabi values imperfection, impermanence, the beauty of things that are a little worn.
Also, individual frame makers are true artists and quirky imperfection is part of what you pay a lot for.
The theme that ties Gleick and Spitzer together is personal imperfection on the part of someone who is doing important work.
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But imperfection does not detract from the fact that women in Israel are free, educated, empowered and advancing on all fronts.
Indeed, the cost of intervention is often too high, but that is what an economist would predict in a case of market imperfection.
One carpet, the size of a prayer rug, lay in the center of the tiled floor as if concealing an imperfection or some secret passage.
Currently on display are Vineyard's ceramic works -- misshapen animals and bowls built around the idea of "wabi-sabi", a Japanese aesthetic celebrating the beauty of imperfection and impermanence.
Dr Edmunds's argument is that there are advantages in imperfection.
He adds a dimension of mystery and imperfection a bent stem, a caterpillar crawling along a branch, nascent buds, insect bites to an art that traditionally prioritized loveliness above all else.
When that fails, as, given the imperfection and limitation of human nature, it surely will fail, we move outward, first to family, then to local communities, then the individual states.
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She fretted over any imperfection in her skin, like a mosquito bite or a heat rash or a tiny pimple, and often wore a hidden Band-Aid on a shoulder or calf, holding some ointment in place.
On the small end, already today you can get reductions on your insurance premiums if you have the clearness of conscience to install a black box on board your car that will tell your every foible, vicissitude, and imperfection.
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WabiSabiLabi, whose name combines a Japanese word for "imperfection" and a German abbreviation for "laboratory, " tests each vulnerability to ensure it fits the seller's description, and in six months plans to begin charging a 10% commission for its services.
Realizing that better processes alone will never overcome these imperfections, the Stanford engineers managed to circumvent the barriers using a unique imperfection-immune design paradigm to produce the first-ever full-wafer-scale digital logic structures that are unaffected by misaligned and mis-positioned CNTs.
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"I think the acknowledgment of the imperfection when there clearly is an imperfection in a product or a brand, and showing the desire to fix it, actually becomes the second-best thing to perfection, " said Josh Rogers, creative director of London-based independent communications company Imagination.
The book is by Doug Wright, the author of "I Am My Own Wife, " who has set "Hardbody" in the present, emphasizing the brutalizing effects of the recession on the 10 contestants and using the truck which remains at center stage throughout the evening as a symbol of the American dream in all its shiny, seductive imperfection.
The grounding of the 787 fleet illustrates not the flaws in Boeing's industrial culture -- a rush to bring the airliner to market, a degree of over-innovation or a desire to please shareholders by outsourcing too much design and production -- but the rigor of a regulatory regime with a zero tolerance of any mote of imperfection.
And though, being an economist, he could not help muttering about the imperfection of societies and systems and the absurdity of predictions and though, being an inveterate puncturer of himself, he would demand a paternity test if anyone called him the father of the deregulated world his adventures with airlines led on to the freeing of the trucking, telecoms and power industries, and heralded the Thatcherite and Reaganite revolutions.
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