Meritorious acts lead one to heavenly realms or, when perfected, to liberation (mokṣa).
Beauvoir thought only St Teresa had achieved as perfect a state of liberation as could yet be imagined.
For my father, the countercultural promise of liberation was a perfect fit with his idea of the American dream.
Arguably the best employed sample on The Life Of Pablo, Sister Nancy's frequently-sampled famous 1992 dancehall hit about sexual liberation provides the perfect counterpart to Rihanna's lilting hook.
The practical uniform of factory hands, clerks, shopkeepers and librarians, it "both symbolized and enabled a wave of women's liberation," Mr. Von Drehle argued, the "perfect repudiation of corsets and bustles and hoops - all the ludicrous contraptions that literally imprisoned women in their own clothes".
So liberation for her was projecting black people as perfect, and invulnerable to mental illness.
It connotes liberation from a final dependence on things or perfect circumstances.
In the 20th century, marriage was beset by a "perfect storm": the expectation that it should be emotionally fulfilling, women's liberation, and effective contraception (Coontz 2006, Chapter 16).
Which brings us back to Miley Cyrus' VMA performance – a perfect illustration of just how the celebrity world appropriates black culture and female liberation.
He thus makes a perfect, pliable partner to those headstrong divas riding the winds of the previous decade's enfranchisement and social liberation.
Birth control today is still far from perfect, but many rightly contend that access to the pill was the match that lit the fire of women's liberation that is still burning today.
