Sentence examples for Academic perfection from inspiring English sources

If academic perfection was now beyond me, I thought, a perfect figure was not.

It may hurt all the more because Ms. Osipova and Mr. Vasiliev were generally regarded as the performers who perhaps most epitomized the Bolshoi's brand of ballet — larger-than-life dancers capable of sky-high jumps and space-devouring sweep and willing to sacrifice academic perfection to electrify their audience.

In tweed jacket, glasses and bow tie, he played the closeted academic to perfection; but his perception of his own times was acute.

Students knew they'd receive due process, reasonable consequences, and found I didn't expect academic or behavior perfection, but only effort and improvement.

Fox points out that academic belief in the perfection of financial markets survived the 1987 stock market crash and the bursting of the Internet bubble.

But he saw something noble, too, in the relentless search: "It is also deeply connected with the highest virtues of academic man — the impulse toward perfection".

Perfect ballets demand perfection.

Personally, I would pay Devon to help my children navigate the impossible expectations of academic excellence, social popularity, online appeal and aesthetic perfection demanded of modern childhood.

And how about the cruel perfection of this description of literary academics: "A group of wankers huddled in a circle, backs turned to the world so that no one could see them pulling each other off".

Yes, leading academic economists did challenge the mathematical models of market perfection and, yes, financial markets may have followed oversimplistic versions of those models.

Ruth Levitas, a luminary in the academic field of utopian studies, writes defensively about "the elision between perfection and impossibility" employed by critics who dismiss the practicality of utopias.