Martha Stewart, who used her image of domestic perfection to build a multimillion-dollar company, was found guilty by a Manhattan jury yesterday of lying about the reasons she sold shares of a biotechnology company more than two years ago.
Our attempt at perfection is built on a false notion that the world will be more accepting of us without our imperfections.
But the Modern style is a harsh mistress when it comes to maintenance; a ding or a chip on a traditional building is patina, but a glaring fault on what was cool, crisp perfection when first built.
Perfect View was built to have a perfect view; but it is also close to perfection itself.
"I must say I loved it — the summers were perfection," says Lagerfeld, who in 1995 commissioned the architect Tadao Ando to build him a new house in Biarritz.
But neither event radically altered those companies' core identities, because their brands weren't built on perfection.
Philadelphia hasn't run the regular-season gauntlet to perfection, but it has built a compelling case for true contention with strong performances against teams of every caliber.
Later attempts to build paradise on earth cost millions of lives.The prospect of acquired perfection lies behind many big ideas and most bad ones.
Our guilt drives us to build up big expectations and then deliver on those with pleasing others and perfection.
He used this information to build life-size models of targets in a Brooklyn warehouse, "stage sets on which the art of burglary could be rehearsed to perfection".
