The two sides of Beethoven's personality achieved perfect balance: as if with a gunshot, the poet became a hero.
When it was first introduced, in 2002, only thirteen companies achieved perfect scores, of three hundred and nineteen surveyed.
In 1964, Jacques Rivette, who had just directed Karina in a stage adaptation of Diderot's "La Religieuse" (which Godard financed), told a journalist, "He and his wife have achieved perfect harmony in destroying each other".
It comes when you no longer read to impress – when you've left set texts and duty-books behind, and achieved perfect, unembarrassed enjoyment, reading what you want to when you want to, and for your own reasons alone.
It no longer feels like the main story of the decade because in this short time it has achieved perfect invisibility: less than a decade ago the phrase XBox did not exist – now it's a household name.
Marx in the mid 90s "was apparently irrelevant", but by the time the book came out there had been full-scale financial meltdowns in both Russia and Asia, and "the idea we had achieved perfect financial equilibrium didn't seem quite so assured".
