Sentence examples for a perfect gem from inspiring English sources

About 20 of the 35 looks that Zac Posen showed on Sunday were ball gowns, each a perfect gem in those misty shapes and hues you associate with Beaton or MGM movies.

(In his podcast Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell applies the Cézanne model to Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah, which sounds as if it popped into existence as a perfect gem, yet went through years of being turgid).

Every paragraph is a perfect gem; his descriptions of the locals, Cabbage Stump-Charlie, Tusker Tom, Albert the Devil and Harelip Harry had me weeping with laughter and his sketches of his siblings and of course his wonderful and chaotic mother had me in tears.

Jones' novel Leaving Atlanta is a perfect gem of the genre.

In Massachusetts, the Springfield Republican also printed the entire speech, calling it "a perfect gem" that was "deep in feeling, compact in thought and expression, and tasteful and elegant in every word and comma".

It is a "small, perfect gem of a book", according to Jonathan Coe, who praised the novel's "tragic force" and the "reserve of authorial compassion we can sense in the gaps between each fragmentary episode and every terse, clipped sentence".

This small, perfect gem of a book might almost be considered the antidote to Pilgrimage.

The perfect gem of the period, a solid mahogany fauteuil de bureau, swivelling on its pediment, is on view in the booth of Anne Marie Monin.

However, Rev was such a perfect little gem of a show – and entire episodes would rely completely on the sadness in Hollander's eyes – that I'd be thrilled if he won it.

Built in 1931 and designed by Joannes & Marlow, it is a perfect little gem of side-street architecture, all the more so because there is little in Harlem like it.

The bronze finish makes this Mexican chimenea the perfect gem for your outside gatherings.