Sentence examples for imperfect instrument from inspiring English sources
First he became a community organizer, thinking change would flow from citizens upward; then he tried the law, which, as he learned from teaching legal history, was a highly imperfect instrument.
Emma herself is endlessly fascinating, a woman to whom the reader returns again and again for the seductive intimacy of her thoughts, a secret communion that's braided with the lesson that self-knowledge is a mystery, vanity the source of the worst pain, and the subconscious a treacherous and imperfect instrument in the management of the psyche.
What justification can there be for claims that this imperfect instrument will be capable of answering all questions?
I enjoy learning how to bring them this information through the Russian system because I've gone through all these other training processes and being myself a very imperfect instrument, finding my way through the ballet world, how to take these kids there.
It was great playing sprinkled with boutique dirt — the manicured sound of antique or imperfect instruments.
International tribunals far removed from the scenes of the crimes have been imperfect instruments of justice — ask Rwandans or Bosnians.
Computer ratings, to be sure, are imperfect instruments, but Virginia Commonwealth had looked no more impressive according to the "eye test".
On "Third" Portishead's imperfect instruments, the resonant hollows of the production and Ms. Gibbons's voice — aching, mournful, distraught — make the band immediately recognizable.
Polls are imperfect instruments, especially at a time when even the best pollsters struggle to get more than 10 percent of Americans to return their calls.
In technology, my dad a boomer who was building simple computers from his Bronx bedroom while still in junior high saw imperfect instruments of progress.
That is why advance directives, which require a person to predict what end-of-life treatment he would like decades hence, are also valuable but imperfect instruments.
