"It's the most perfect shade.
He is also about clothes and he ends his column on this terrible, nay, apocalyptic note: "There were many talented, small craft-based firms in the [affected] region," he writes, one of which makes "the most wonderful suits with the most perfect shoulder shape".
And much later in the fourth century BC Plato's Timaeus proposed that the body of the cosmos was made in the most perfect and uniform shape, that of a sphere containing the fixed stars.
Recently, at the absolute top of the market, according to Mr. Ruoff, his firm sold a house on Montgomery Place for $6 million, but most large town houses in perfect shape, if ever on the market, sell for just over $3 million.
The Four Ballades, composed between 1831 and 1842, are perhaps the most perfect examples of Chopin's instinctive sense of musical shape and tonal organisation.
Rough diamonds exist in a wild spectrum of shapes and appearances, out-dazzling even the most perfect round-cut stone.
Bourke-White's love for play of light and geometric shapes is embedded in arguably Franck's single most perfect image, that of the bathers at the poolside at Le Brusc, Provence, taken in 1976.
With our standards of beauty now, it's like, 'Oh you can't have those rolls there.' But I think Marilyn is one of the most stunning women who has every been around, and she was never in perfect shape".
And Wim Wenders created the most perfect document of West Berlin's strange, enclosed atmosphere in Wings of Desire - a film that continues to shape many outsiders' image of the German capital.
