The influential New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani, though, found it "imperfect and wayward" and suggested that it is "never quite sure whether it wants to be a social satire, a middle-age Bildungsroman or a romantic comedy".
Every day she showed the shaykh her work, and every day he found it imperfect.
In other sciences, one would surely take the world as we find it, full of irrational consumers, imperfect information and markets that suddenly freeze.
When you understand your own limited but lovely place within this universally imperfect world, you will find it almost natural to become more patient and forgiving with other people too".
In "The Limping Bride" a widowed father, Hiralal, strives to reform his son's rebellious heavy drinking by finding him a wife, concealing from him that the candidate he finds is imperfect, that she walks with a limp, a humiliating loss of face for the son.
You can render the word in a variety of ways, the most usual being "out of one's element," a translation I find imperfect, lacking as it does a sense of rootless irresponsibility that goes a long way toward explaining things people get up to in hotels.
The IPO market was the most transparent proxy we could find, and while imperfect, it is instructive.
It's gotten harder than ever to find an imperfect heroine in a series who is actually flawed.
People do find various imperfect and ingenious ways to cope.
Perhaps the arguments given in this article point towards an answer: Making our terms precise in one possible and, we think, very natural way, we find that imperfect synchrony is more "economical" than perfect synchrony.
