Sentence examples for imperfect version from inspiring English sources

You realize that what Rose is seeing is an imperfect version of what she might have been.

Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne:I think the MRRT is a very imperfect version of what it might have been.

"Today one of my fans messaged me, and he thought I should do a Taylor Swift song," the singer said, then began a committed, occasionally imperfect version of Ms. Swift's "Teardrops on My Guitar".

But each piece is followed by a short, sad-looking note in italics, explaining what Tisdale was thinking when she wrote it or what she wanted it to mean, as though to mark it as merely her tentative, inevitably imperfect version of events.

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He gives a lucid account of Lewis's line on "chronological snobbery", for instance – the idea that it's arrogant to read the past as an imperfect version of the present, rather than realising that every stage of the past was once the present, and that present orthodoxies will in due course seem just as muddled as those of the past do to us.

In a web 2.0 world prototypes are launched early, as imperfect versions used solicit rapid user feedback in a process known as beta-testing".

But it's kind of like pancakes; even the most imperfect versions are great, and you're always immensely pleased to find yourself sipping one.

They were not, as Lawson claimed, "highly imperfect versions of what ticket-buyers had received", for there were no ticket-buyers – they were staged for that one performance only.

After slogging through the blow-by-blow of all the imperfect versions along the way — versions with one too many egg yolks or the oven twenty-five degrees too high — you're rewarded with a master recipe that is fully confident and precise in its weights, measurements, ingredients, times, and temperatures.

"Making Sex" described a seismic shift in the way biological differences between men and women were understood before and after the Enlightenment: from a "one-sex model" in which women were regarded as smaller, imperfect versions of men (and thus no less orgasmic), to a "two-sex model" in which women and men were seen as incommensurable opposites.