Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Pashtun and a 20th-century freedom fighter in India, called the Buddhas "an unparalleled example of perfection in the art of sculpture".
Disneyland is a marvelous example of perfection.
Even if that's true, career professionals who've recently turned 50 might be the next best example of perfection — at least when it comes to job productivity.
Built around a three-chord riff of Asheton's, the song is an example of minimalist perfection.
From Praeneste came a remarkable cylindrical container of the late 4th century bc, now in the Villa Giulia, Rome; its richly engraved surface provides a good example of the perfection of ancient drawing.
The text is littered with the sort of rhapsodic endorsements that can interchangeably be applied to the works of Mozart, Michelangelo, Shakespeare or Segovia: "Every second... seemed to reveal some new element of truth or beauty", "speaks to some profound ideal of the human condition", "a rare example of human perfection".
The screewriter has described the climactic denouement of 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope as an example of screenwriting perfection for the way it brings together the character arcs of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo for an "insanely great ending" which leaves the audience in a euphoric state.
Alina Tugend, in her excellent new book "Better by Mistake," illustrates through fascinating examples how the expectation of perfection -- in business, in the practice of medicine, even in aviation -- has been a direct contributor to catastrophic failures.
"I was on the receiving end of an example of this pursuit for perfection very early one Sunday morning after he had picked up a copy of the paper bearing one of his big-fight reports which, as usual, we had just squeezed in before the deadline as he relentlessly beavered away, polishing the piece.
Nevertheless, as reviewer Zac Bertschy described the situation: "People tend to go either way on the Belldandy character; either she's an obnoxious, archaic fantasy girl for men who prefer their women to act like indentured servants, or she's the archetype of perfection, a flawless example of graceful femininity".
Bach, for example, no longer climbs to the summit of perfection; instead, he produces "homogeneous language of considerable density".
