defectiveness
Example Sentences
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When I look at photographs of my 22-year-old self, so convinced of her own defectiveness, I see a perfectly normal girl and I think about aliens.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2016
The standard reactions to her artistic defectiveness were masochistic joy and a perverse desire to share the spectacularly failed artwork with others.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2013
Now me and better may be said to make good the defectiveness of I and good; and I and good may be said to replace the forms wanting in me and better.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
By contrasting it with the ideal we suggest its imperfections; by protruding it as an example, we turn on its defectiveness the microscope of criticism.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
In the romantic realm, the spiritual idea, to whose defectiveness was due the defective forms of symbolic art, now reveals itself in its perfection within mind and feeling.
