Sentence examples for Standard of perfection from inspiring English sources

Now an actual documentary, "THE STANDARD OF PERFECTION: SHOW CATS" (PBS, Wednesday at 8 p.m ., does for felines what "Best in Show" did for canines: that is, represent their owners as lovingly devoted, obsessive freaks.

"People who give the appearance of being perfect people put that standard of perfection on themselves and they'll put that standard on you," said Ms. Whelchel, who played Blair on the television series "The Facts of Life".

By its very nature no standard of perfection can be attained.

Pleased you've walked into it: "He wasn't living up to my standard of perfection".

The Akkadian seal cutter's craft reached a standard of perfection virtually unrivaled in later times.

Anselm asserted that that norm is God, the absolute, ultimate, and integrating standard of perfection.

In the American Standard of Perfection the standard male weight for the bantam Silkie is 1 kg (36 oz) and for the female, 907 g (32 oz).

Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection (BBC2) is better than Bond.

· Further Adventures in Search of Perfection by Heston Blumenthal, is published by Bloomsbury, £20.

To order Heston Blumenthal's In Search of Perfection for £18 with free UK p&p (Bloomsbury, rrp £20), call 0870 836 0885, observer.co.uk/bookshop.

In terms of actual motorway services, when I was researching a roast chicken dish for the BBC series In Search of Perfection, I discovered that the biggest retailer of Bresse chicken, the most revered chicken in France, is not a shop or a restaurant but a motorway service station, Le Poulet de Bresse (see below).