Although you would do no wrong by paying the ticket, the cop acted imperfectly by writing it.
This is of course a welcome trend: the early Middle Ages, even in the most literate regions, are a period only imperfectly illuminated by written evidence.
Jazz is also still a young music, with about a century of precedent, imperfectly captured on record and poorly served by written notation.
It reads as though it had been written by a man who worried that an imperfectly balanced sentence could create an opening, however small, through which totalitarian impulses might creep.
The group diverse though of course imperfectly representative was encouraged to write pithy and polemical pieces.
The twenty stories in this unsettling, beautifully written collection take place in and around Glasgow, and the protagonists are mainly imperfectly loved girls and women.
My colleague Raffi Khatchadourian has written about the way WikiLeaks has evolved, and how it had begun, slowly and imperfectly, to bring its practices in line with those of a traditional media organization.
In the final books of L'Esprit des lois, added at the last moment and imperfectly assimilated to the rest, he addressed himself to the history of law, seeking to explain the division of France into the two zones of written and customary law, and made his contribution to the much discussed controversy about the origins of the French aristocracy.
There's no denying that we as a species are fond of order, whether we create it imperfectly out of nothing (as one does in writing a novel) or re-establish it, piece by piece, perfectly, on the dining room table.
Apparently, members of the cabinet wrote speeches for Sir Boyle which he somewhat imperfectly committed to memory, in general mastering the substance but frequently producing, through his love of language and ornament, travesties on the original words.
Mr. Freedman writes, "If the test can serve as an early-warning system, however imperfectly, then it helps meet a need that many educators have long recognized".
