And "surely, you want those linen guest towels I embroidered with the Eight Beatitudes?" Yes, I would want a pillowcase reminding me that the meek shall inherit the earth — in a perfect world, and if Georgetown had more closets.
In a perfect world, where the elements of earth, air, water and fire are in harmony, and justice, beauty and peace prevail, the Dalai Lama would probably have his own animated action series.
I put the question to Craig Marshall: In a perfect world, what would we do to save the earth?
The 36-year-old founder of Salesforce.com has no regrets over having shelled out a couple thousand dollars on a color specialist to pick the perfect earth-tone paints for his San Francisco offices.
There are Le Bernardin's sublime warm oysters in truffle cream sauce, a staple of the restaurant since its earliest days in Paris and a perfect combination of earth and sea.
In the Idylls, Arthur became a symbol of ideal manhood whose attempt to establish a perfect kingdom on earth fails, finally, through human weakness.
Scholastic consensus is that the historical Yeshua of Nazareth was a Jewish, itinerant, apocalyptic preacher - one of many at the time who rallied against corruption by the high priests of the Temple and, in the spirit of Second Isaiah, preached God's imminent creation of a perfect human society on earth.
And so I interviewed The Rock (a perfect angel put on earth to remind us all to be good) and Kevin Hart (a comedian who is kind of bafflingly not-as-famous-as-he-should-be in the UK) under the guise of promoting their new film, Central Intelligence.
A perfect analogy is the Earth-Sun system.
If the earth were a perfect sphere, with a uniform mass throughout, and you were standing upright exactly at the surface, all the mass within the radius of the circle on which you stand would exert a gravitational force on you and contribute to your effective weight.
