In the end, Kobe Bryant was that rare item: a person washed in grateful applause, his destiny perfectly fulfilled.
Philosophers, at least since the time of Kant, have called these "imperfect duties": even in the best circumstances, we can't perfectly fulfill them.
An assortment of sparkling amuse-bouches -- tiny but sublime potato croquettes scented with vanilla, and a single bite of creamy onion quiche -- perfectly fulfilled their function.
It perfectly fulfills one of the requests he would make thirteen years later in a well-known essay, "Politics and the English Language," for "a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech".
To illustrate the suggestion, consider a world in which formal equality of opportunity and Rawlsian fair equality of opportunity are perfectly fulfilled.
In this case the redistributive aim is perfectly fulfilled: high risks are cross subsidized by the low risks and all insurers make zero profits.
While no one handset perfectly fulfills that "quad-fecta," Lindholm, a director at European design agency Fjord, says he is a fan of the iPhone, Nokia's E71 and the BlackBerry Bold.
Zayat's wish was perfectly fulfilled.
The school I visited perfectly fulfilled the Common Core State Standards years before it was a twinkle in education reformers' eyes.
As the entry point at the crossing of all the human flux moving in and our of the venue, this allegoric gateway perfectly fulfilled its function.
