When Caldwell went for a championship over perfection, winning the Super Bowl was no longer an option.
While competently constructed, "Catching Her Tears" seems to strive for the type of feigned perfection that "Winning You With Words" resists.
Though she flirted with perfection in winning the 2010 Olympic title in Vancouver, British Columbia, she left perfection behind on the opening jump of her short program on Friday: stumbling out of a triple lutz, which eliminated any possibility of completing her planned triple-triple combination.
Mark Cavendish timed his sprint to perfection to win the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland.
Britain's Mark Cavendish timed his finish to perfection to win a punishing stage 13 at the Giro d'Italia, his fourth victory of this year's race.
Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull produced the latest in a series of displays of sporting perfection to win the Korean Grand Prix.
(Only one book made it into both: Kate Grenville's The Idea of Perfection, which eventually won).
But a few have a perfection that has won comparison with Verlaine and Brecht.
"You've got to have guards," said Geno Auriemma, the UConn coach, but for all the talk about the battle of the backcourts, UConn has its third national title and second unbeaten season today only because of a 44-25 rebounding slaughter, because its selfless passing machine knew where perfection would be won.
He must, though, have been delighted with what he saw on the pitch, his Gabon team – in the first half in particular – playing with real pace and intelligence, executing what was presumably a deliberate tactical plan to perfection as they won their opening game at the Africa Cup of Nations 2-0.
