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Perfection Giotto’s O perfect circle drawn effortlessly by Giotto. [Ital. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 463]
or section a proportion between the length and width of a rectangle or two portions of a line, said to be ideal. [Fine Arts: Misc.] poet who has no earthly rival in his claim to being quite perfect. [Br. Opera: Gilbert and Sullivan Patience] score of one stroke for a hole in golf. [Sports: Webster’s Sports, 215] son of God; personification of human flawlessness. [Christian Hist.: NCE, 1412] where the dominant passes into the harmony of the tonic chord. [Music: Thompson, 333] sorrow for sin, coming from a love of God for His own perfections. [Christianity: Misc.] baseball game in which all opposing batters are put out in succession. [Sports: Webster’s Sports, 311] equal in value to the sum of those natural numbers that are less than the given number but that also divide (with zero remainder) the given number. [Math.: EB, VII: 872] best possible hand in poker; one-suited hand from ten to ace. [Cards: Brewer Dictionary, 940] Nietzsche’s ideal being, a type that would arise when man succeeds in surpassing himself. [Ger. Phil.: Thus Spake Zarathustra in Magill III, 1069] bowling game of twelve consecutive strikes, scoring maximum 300 points. [Sports: Webster’s Sports, 311] |
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This was soon done; but again, as I thus conned all those virtues which I was to expect united in one unhappy woman, the result was still unsatisfying, for I began to perceive that it was really not perfection that I was in search of. An anchor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an instrument wrought into perfection by ages of experience, a flawless thing for its purpose. Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand 'under the shelter of the wall,' as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world. |
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