We watched her fall in love with heart surgeons and rugby players, cads and bounders, on a doomed quest for completion and contentment that was deeply familiar to us – from novels, if not our own bumpy, imperfect lives.
Most functions are imperfect, if not seriously flawed, because they reflect evolutionary compromises between competing requirements of the organism (Nesse and Williams 1995; Fromer and Shifman 2009; Foit et al. 2009).
The performance of ANC with imperfect CSI has been considered in[18 20], while the joint analysis of PN and imperfect CSI would be difficult if not impossible to derive.
I am vain and would have begged my parents for braces if not for the fact that in the 1970s an imperfect look was considered attractive, thanks to Ali McGraw's crooked teeth in "Love Story".
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
"Walking Home From the Museum" sets Ponsot's own fallen language, her own imperfect faith, against a "Paradise panel" of confident angels, "the vivid repose of each breathless face," "their speech sung as if not split from song".
Though imperfect, this approach mirrors somewhat the Center for Global Development's commitment to development index, making the point strongly that non-aid actions are as important as aid, if not more so.
But he wanted the mansion, not the imperfect dessert service.
Even if an imperfect vaccine could not create antibodies to forestall sickness, she said, it might prime the immune system enough to just fend off death.
She's imperfect, not shiny, not rich.
