It was not only his kicking which was flawless, it was his game management.
He was not flawless; but then he was not aiming for perfection.
The final passage, however, is also a flawless rendering of the real-life miracle of snowfall, a few light taps upon the window ushering in a flurry of some of the most beautiful prose ever printed.
Eight matches in 11 days on a previously unfavoured surface, a three-set duel that finished so late it prompted promises of an official review of scheduling on the ATP tour, and, to top it all, a virtually flawless performance against the best clay-court player in history.
Despite this, the result was a flawless, inspiring, unrhetorical but still powerful case for his party and mine.
The 4-0 win at Schalke 04 in September proved the high-point in terms of performance – for 70 minutes Bayern were flawless.
When I was at school all my friends looked flawless, and I'd turn up with hair that I'd tried to dry with the car air vents while putting mascara on in the car and trying not to poke myself in the eye.
Tearing down unrealistic beauty standards is noble, but it shouldn't come at the cost of a woman's privacy and her ability to craft her own narrative, even if that narrative has unbelievably – no seriously, I don't believe it – flawless skin.
But, while the physical presentation was flawless, I felt a strange disproportion between the ceremonial grandeur of the occasion and the contentious politics of Thatcher herself.
Understated in jeans and jersey, Birch has a flawless complexion supervised by her mother, who has just discovered products made by Dr Hauschka.
Wiggins took the yellow jersey on stage seven and thanks to iron endurance in the mountains and near flawless support riding from his team, held his grip on the race for 13 successive stages until a rapturous finale on the Champs Elysées.
