perfection
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The little essays heading each section provide their own astonishments: “Yes, Egg is a most perfect thing—but to fulfil its task it must be destroyed as if it never mattered. Perfection cracked, a planet shattered.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Gavin Larsen, a former dancer and the author of the memoir “Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life,” said she has seen its corrosive effects firsthand.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Watch Pep Guardiola: Chasing Perfection on BBC iPlayer and you can delve deeper with an accompanying four-part podcast series on BBC Sounds - 'Sporting Giants'.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024
Perfection is always the goal and Orange Lutheran’s girls’ water polo team has achieved it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2024
As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
Vocabulary lists containing perfection
"Imperfect Me"
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"Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story"
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James Monroe's First Inaugural Address (1817)
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