Surely this is not just an ideal, something regarded as a model of perfection and excellence.
Few deans claim that the MBA is a model of perfection.
She said she highlights her shortcomings in her blog and doesn't present herself "as any model of perfection".
Mariano Rivera, who is considered the model of perfection as a closer, lauded Lidge for doing something that was "very difficult".
"Tiger Woods, the model of perfection and what an economist would think of as a rational agent, even he exhibits these biases.
Record companies, cleaving to the American model of perfection, began media-training their stars – "media-training" being a technical term for surgically depriving someone of their personality.
Though perhaps tongue-in-cheek, his "commandments" preached what his own short stories exemplified: a model of perfection for Latin American writers.
That's not to say that Dell's buyout was a model of perfection; no buyout in which the founder is trying to buy shares from the public will ever be conflict-free.
But even as I tried to discredit the publicity that saw Thatcherism as liberating, I was still reluctant to propose a counter-myth, which pictured the government of 1945 as a permanent model of perfection.
Neither is she a model of perfection: in a video call from her home in Houston, Brown tells me that she flips people off when she's driving and would instinctively rather punch somebody than make herself vulnerable.
