imperfection
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"We sell imperfection, and that's attractive for some. It's not 'unreliable', it's the measure of craftsmanship."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
It’s always the imperfection of everything you’ve ever written, that’s what keeps you writing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
But he seemed unwilling to transform that imperfection into a constitutional defect in which counsel, in his view, still had “every opportunity” to make the point and did not.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Frankenstein,” in turn, is the director’s latest monument to the beauty of imperfection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Unless you make your living as a supermodel, you know what it's like to have at least one physical imperfection that makes you feel irreversibly ugly.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Its benefits appear natural and permanent; its imperfections, intolerable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The film frames their lapses in rigor as the joys of being a teenager, rather than imperfections — or worse, weakness in the pursuit of glory.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Rather than treating wrinkles only as imperfections, researchers may be able to use them as functional features whose geometry helps determine how electricity behaves.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
In an age of AI-generated images and machine-manufactured products, it may be those imperfections that keep some of Britain's oldest skills alive.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won’t zip.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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