Sentence examples for imperfect place from inspiring English sources

"The world's an imperfect place".

But the world is an imperfect place, you know.

"Long Island has been a great but an imperfect place to grow up for generations," Mr. Ruff said.

Having spent a couple of decades talking up London as a cool, cool city, the media are now sick on their own words and suddenly see all the bad things about this all too imperfect place.

"There have been many occasions during the celebration of the success of integration to also commemorate the difficult and sad events of the time," he said, adding that "our university is still an imperfect place, our state is imperfect, our country is imperfect".

The driver protested in ornate phrases that nobody was threatening anyone, that to speak of threats in this situation was unfitting, that he could tell from my smiling face that I was a good and trusting person, but that the world was an imperfect place, that some men were less like humans than like animals, and that it was best to send clear signals about what one was or wasn't looking for.

In addition, the greatness of a city is measured partly in the vitality of its underdogs, and they include benignly neglected treasures, the haunted, imperfect places where you can see things both working and falling apart at the same time and glimpse the eternal dance of ambition and failure that fuels human enterprise.

Dive bars are unpolished, imperfect places filled with unpolished, imperfect people, just like us.

Cities are imperfect places in the cross-hairs of a turbulent world.

In stark contrast, the Rubicon-Laguna Playhouse production is driven by director Katharine Farmer's overarching interpretation that Alex and Georgie's respective anomalies and imperfect socialization place them clearly on the autism spectrum.

Since matching was imperfect for place of residence (remoteness), in a sub-group analysis we excluded people from the most remote regions: Indigenous people from rural areas (77% vs. 89%, p < 0.001) and those from more urban areas (83% vs. 90%, p = 0.01) received less treatment (any, surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy).