Speaking on the character of the _product_ of the English schools, Faraday says, 'The whole evidence appears to show that the _reasoning faculties_ [mark, it is here the failure occurs, and here that it shows itself], in all classes of the community, are very imperfectly and insufficiently developed -- _imperfectly, as compared with the natural abilities, insufficiently, when considered with reference to the extent and variety of information with which they are called upon to deal_.' ❋ Various (N/A)
This range is very imperfectly seen from Primiero, and still more imperfectly from the Val di Canali, the perspective in both instances being so abrupt as only to show the peaks in line, one behind the other. ❋ Unknown (1873)
Mr Toby Chuzzlewit had either received the name imperfectly from his father, or that he had forgotten it, or that he had mispronounced it? and that even at the recent period in question, the Chuzzlewits were connected by a bend sinister, or kind of heraldic over-the-left, with some unknown noble and illustrious House? ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
-- a phrase imperfectly translatable, meaning, as near as may be, having flitter-mice in his campanile. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)
Modern video players do not reveal video-file suffixes, and captions and subtitles imperfectly capture the spoken words in a video. ❋ Martyn Daniels (2007)
They must not be argued with, for they are convinced they suffer only for God's sake, and cannot be made to understand they are acting imperfectly, which is a further error in persons so far advanced. ❋ Unknown (1921)
While these "imperfectly" marked ballots still contain the voter's political expression, their intent, machines, not being human, can not discern the voter's intent on the ballot. ❋ Unknown (2006)
To say that New Orleans' urban mostly black youth are "educationally underserved" is like saying the Saints performed "imperfectly" against Seattle: a huge understatement. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And say that we likewise maintain the various traditional restraints that are in fact unlikely to be politically changed, such as imperfectly enforced minimum wage laws, imperfectly enforced tax laws, imperfectly enforced housing laws, and the like. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yet, knowing that I loved everything about my mom -- and that she loved us enough not to let bad hair days and imperfectly toned legs keep her from sharing in the things we loved -- still makes me want to be like her in every important way. ❋ Signe Whitson (2011)
In this way he provided a theoretical foundation for predicting the outcome of strategic interaction between agents imperfectly informed, for instance, about the objectives of other individuals. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When they were reopened, these services operated imperfectly, in part because of the increasingly rebellious behavior of their own employees. ❋ Michael Schwartz (2011)
In English we have to mess around with “ever new,” “ever fresh,” “on and on,” “in time to come,” all of which mean rather different things from each other, and only partly or imperfectly capture certain elements of the original. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As children, we are available for ideal parenting, but we meet up with our flawed fathers and mothers who inevitably love us imperfectly, burdened as they are with the legacies of their own disappointments and fears and traumas. ❋ Glenn Beck (2011)
Rabbi Tucker's proposal, which remains a dissent to the more conservative majority opinions accepted by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, argues that "God's will is not infallibly represented in the Torah, but only imperfectly, in a form that awaits the engagement and honest searching of religious communities." ❋ Miriam Lazewatsky (2011)
That girl, [Hayleigh], can [fall up the stairs], have a panic attack skiing on the bunny slope and has more prescriptions than CVS. She has more problems than she can count. Yet, she still only thinks about others. She's [imperfectly perfect]. ❋ .webster (2015)
