Unable for a host of conflicted reasons to maintain the glossy façade of apparent perfection demanded by high society, the two women gradually, politely, withdrew.
The theory explains the force of the off-slant scene in a film, the power of elliptical dialogue in the theatre, the constant artistic need to turn away from apparent perfection toward the laconic or unfixed.
31, in which she wrote that Romney's apparent perfection -- embodied by the fact that he is "handsome, rich and successful," "father to five strapping sons" and most importantly, that "at the end of a long day of campaigning, his hair hasn't moved" -- makes it hard for us flawed mortals to relate to him.
Megan's apparent perfection has been noted before in these parts.
Phineas' apparent perfection creates a jealously in Gene that results in a tragedy that will forever change both of their lives.
Who among us hasn't felt inadequate from time to time, brought low by a friend's apparent perfection, minimized by somebody's kids' flawless manners and exemplary eating habits?
Romeo sees Rosaline as the embodiment of the rose because of her name and her apparent perfections.
In a recent book, "American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction" by Philip Fisher, a professor of literature at Harvard, this spirit is seen as one of the guiding themes of American literature: the "apparent completeness and perfection of the world just as it is now" is continually overturned.
Consider that Isabella, the apparent exemplar of moral perfection and the play's chief cheerleader for purity, prefers to see her beloved brother beheaded rather than surrender her prized virginity.
