Sentence examples for possible perfection from inspiring English sources

While, thus referring to the possible perfection of the spring balance with the qualifying particle "if," they justly remark that the pendulum is the most delicate of all instruments for the measurement of force.

Of course the belief that after a certain lapse of time a Kosmos previously non-existent came into being would imply a foreseeing and a reasoned plan on the part of God providing for the production of the Universe and securing all possible perfection in it- a guidance and partial providence, therefore, such as is indicated.

(Realm of Matter, v) Hence, a "sour moralist" may consider it evil, but, according to Santayana, if one takes a wider view "matter would seem a good … because it is the principle of existence: it is all things in their potentiality and therefore the condition of all their excellence or possible perfection".

Lynne Cheney, Jill Biden's immediate predecessor, is a novelist who earned a doctorate in English with a dissertation titled "Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry". She goes by Mrs. Cheney.

Since goodness completes or perfects something, "the best" must be "a being which is fully complete (ens completissimum)." Now what is absolutely complete must possess all possible perfections.

Namely, like the philosophers, Jeremiah also singles out four possible perfections—"might," "riches," ethical "wisdom," and "understanding and knowledge"—but he adds something more as well: "exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth".

For a few years, he won so frequently and dependably, and with such panache, that it seemed possible that perfection could exist on a tennis court.

It is no small endeavor and will take many years of fine-tuning to get as close as possible to perfection, but with future technological advances, there will always be a new device or software to master to provide as up-to-date training data as possible.

So all you do is try to get as close as possible to that perfection.

Belichick's decision might have cost New England a game, but Caldwell's decision cost the Colts nothing, except for a possible run at perfection.

The shapes of the lake and the mountain behind it mirror each other in a perfection possible only in a reverie.