Sentence examples for imperfect man from inspiring English sources

"I am an imperfect man saved by God's grace," he said.

He did not embrace Wright's ideas, he embraced the imperfect man and would not disown him.

If he made it in the "quality lit game," it wasn't only because he was a good writer; it was because he was an imperfect man.

He seems comfortable revealing himself as an imperfect man of contradictions, a Yankee who created headlines but never sipped championship Champagne.

Jones's songs lifted country-music aphorisms to a kind of high art, and his life and now death seem to demand aphorism as well, something blunt and simple like: George Jones was an imperfect man with a perfect voice.

As Isaac, who is given to declaring himself independent of his Jewish tribe, Mr. Leffert reveals an imperfect man drawn toward the attractive flame of the very Germans who are consigning his people to the ovens of the Holocaust.

These stories were not about the failings of individual imperfect men but parables for an entire set of experiences.

Not to mention the imperfect men who operated the howitzers — those who lifted the shells into the breech, who loaded the charges, who programmed the fuses.

We may even think in terms of two kinds of human being — ourselves, free men or imperfect men, and the new men yet to be made (man's own creation, not nature's), whom we might perhaps call neoanthrops, a coinage which sounds like strangulation.

It has the usual toy-store-ready gizmos and critters, but it also has appealingly imperfect men and women whose blunders and victories, decency and goofiness remind you that a pop mythology like Star Wars needs more than old gods to sustain it.

Mormons don't use the term "infallibility" to refer to their leaders and readily acknowledge that they are imperfect men.