(1) It makes no sense in a machine world to limit the functionality of perfect components so that imperfect components don't wear out or break - certainly not if you can replace them.

(2) He or she can resort to autobiographies and biographies - some positive, others negative, and all imperfect in one way or another.

(3) It's imperfect in the way that all low-budget features are.

(4) And, as everyone knows, those who are imperfect must be punished mercilessly.

(5) Another oft-stated rule was that a perfect 5th, unison, or octave should be approached by the nearest imperfect interval.

(6) The donor, having by then changed his mind, declines to perfect the imperfect gift in favour of the intended donee.

(7) But an imperfect cadence leaves the listener expecting resolution, which duly comes.

(8) However, gravitational lenses are imperfect because the rays that pass closest to the lensing mass are deflected more than rays passing further away.

(9) He is here following Socrates' method of the elenchus, where you propose a definition, but then throw it away if it is shown to be in some way imperfect .

(10) Most believers are imperfect in one way or another.

(11) It's tough trying to be perfect in an imperfect world.

(12) It's messy and imperfect because we are both of those things.

(13) Cutting loose from the unsung genius is, however, his only chance at real fulfillment, real love, real mastery, transient and imperfect as they are.

(14) For once, the concept was great but the execution imperfect .

(15) It is wise to recognize we are all imperfect in some way.

(16) Gee, was that an imperfect tense or an indicative?

(17) In Spanish, Senora Montoya invited me into her classroom, boasting about my superior abilities to conjugate verbs in the imperfect tense the quickest in the class.

(18) The difficulty comes from the fact that the imperfect here does not coherently offer a continuously unfolding present that would culminate in the receiving of the letter.

(19) But like most human institutions, scientific peer review is limited in scope and imperfect .

(20) It may be of imperfect obligation, imperfect in the sense that it does not withdraw jurisdiction.