Imperfections

Examples

• Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The plate is then returned to the engraving department, which completes the work, burnishing darks, engraving highlights, removing slight imperfections and otherwise perfecting the plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Like Shakespere, they were great in spite, not in consequence, of their imperfections of expression. Plato. The Republic.
• Do not think or speak of disparity between us, for there is none, except in all my many imperfections. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Yet the chief of these reasons may perhaps be refuted by the imperfections of the performance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Whenever a flash of reason darted like an electric light upon her lover--as it sometimes would--and showed his imperfections, she shivered thus. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It then receives further mechanical treatment to correct imperfections and finish its edges, and is finally mounted upon a block ready for the printer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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