Use perfection in a sentence
Sentences starting with perfection
- Perfection in husbands was evidently a state not to be considered by any woman in her right senses. [9]
- Perfection is divine. [9]
Sentences ending with perfection
- I am satisfied with nothing but perfection. [4]
- I don't know what expense the gardener has been to about it, what material and care have been necessary to bring it to perfection. [4]
- If these people were indeed so foul as to defile every thing they touch, how would this pure, this tender, holy impulse show itself even in them in all its beauty and perfection? [10]
- This was good training, persistent training; and in all arts it is training that brings the art to perfection. [5]
- It comes natural to them to lie and cheat in the first place, and then they go on and improve on nature until they arrive at perfection. [5]
- Do we hope to change perfection? [5]
- Not even in those advantageous circumstances can increase be added to perfection. [5]
- First of all, there is one faculty which a pilot must incessantly cultivate until he has brought it to absolute perfection. [5]
- And as for the uniforms of the soldiers, they were newness and brightness carried to perfection. [5]
- Mr. Cable is the only master in the writing of French dialects that the country has produced; and he reads them in perfection. [5]
Short sentences using perfection
- Will my reform reach perfection? [5]
Sentences containing perfection two or more times
- The dispositions drawn up by Weyrother for the battle of Austerlitz were a model of perfection for that kind of composition, but still they were criticized--criticized for their very perfection, for their excessive minuteness. [2]
- Of course I do not mean perfection, for perfection has no promise in it, rather the sad note of limit, and presently recession. [4]
More example sentences with the word perfection in them
- The other dishes were what one might get at Delmonico's, or Buckingham Palace; those I have spoken of can be had in similar perfection in New Orleans only, I suppose. [5]
- It was the very weather that makes our home summers the perfection of climatic luxury; I mean, when you are out in the wood or by the sea. [5]
- It was this very perfection, so charming to see, but in a sense so inhuman, which had ever dismayed him. [11]
- The perfection of travel is ten miles an hour, on top of a stagecoach; it is greater speed than forty by rail. [4]
- We are beginning to see that perfection and individuality are not incompatible,--one is divine, and the other human. [9]
- And she has to perfection the art of managing men. [9]
- One was forced to acknowledge her perfection in the part she had chosen as the arbitress of social honours. [9]
- One at a time the contestants enter, clothed regardless of expense in what each considers the perfection of style and taste, and walk down the vacant central space and back again with that multitude of critical eyes on them. [5]
- I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight. [5]
- The garden-party of this afternoon was as near perfection as such a meeting could well be. [6]
- But I don't think of Denman Thompson as an actor trained to perfection in a dramatic school, but as a New Hampshire farmer. [4]
- Not only was there this steady growth of intellect, but the infinite delicacy of his nature and its capacity for refinement developed also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech. [7]
- As she paused there in the doorway her physical perfection flashed upon me for the first time. [4]
- Epicurus, who denied their power, saw in them at least immortal beings who possess in stainless perfection everything which in mortals is disfigured by errors, weaknesses, and afflictions. [10]
- Everybody sat on the upper deck, on benches, under an awning; everybody talked, laughed, and exclaimed at the wonder scenery; in truth, a trip on that lake is almost the perfection of pleasuring. [5]
- The termination, toward the town, observed in profile, is the perfection of shape. [5]
- We must learn the science of Life, to reach the perfection of man. [5]
- The result was the perfection of simplicity, of freshness, of maiden purity, enhanced by the touch of art. [4]
- It was not--until the first faint herald of the morning that Honora could bring herself to pronounce the fateful thing that stood between her and happiness, that threatened to mar the perfection of a heaven-born love --Divorce! [9]
- He justly considers the differentiation and specialisation of organs as the test of perfection. [1]
- The beauty of the arch consists first in its curve, commonly a part of the circle, of the perfection of which I have spoken. [6]
- Journalism, which is the accident of business and crowded populations, in great perfection. [6]
- Presently she discovered that the notes were those of a bird on a tree immediately outside of her window--a tree of wonderful perfection, the lower branches of which swept the ground. [9]
- Mrs. Laflamme declared that it was the perfection of existence for a couple of months, one in early summer and another in the golden autumn with its pathetic note of the falling curtain dropping upon the dream of youth. [4]
- Manners seemed more than content that she should play the hostess, which she did to perfection. [9]
- The country about teas the perfection of cultivated landscape, dotted with cottages, and stately mansions of Revolutionary date, and sweet as an English country-side, whether seen in the soft bloom of May or in the mellow ripeness of late October. [5]
- She was neither tall nor short, and the dark blue gown which she wore set off (so Bob thought) the curves of her figure to perfection. [9]
- Germany, in the summer, is the perfection of the beautiful, but nobody has understood, and realized, and enjoyed the utmost possibilities of this soft and peaceful beauty unless he has voyaged down the Neckar on a raft. [5]
- But watch her, study her, and you will find her to be the perfection of a type--the finest expression of a decorous convention, a perfect product of social conservatism; unaffected, cheerful, sensitive, composed, very talented, altogether companionable. [11]
- To throw a stone with as true an aim as a Fuegian in defending himself, or in killing birds, requires the most consummate perfection in the correlated action of the muscles of the hand, arm, and shoulder, and, further, a fine sense of touch. [1]
- As happens to some people, especially to men who judge those near to them severely, he always on meeting anyone new--especially anyone whom, like Speranski, he knew by reputation--expected to discover in him the perfection of human qualities. [2]
- Their beavers are smoothly brushed, and their boots well polished; all their appointments are tidy; they look the respectable walking gentleman to perfection. [6]
- Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to Helene's perfection of manner. [2]
- I have long since learned that the perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambition to our capacities; we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. [5]
- But what did she care for the opinion of those around her, or about the inner life of the Bithyman, whose external perfection of form was all that pleased her. [10]
- I'm not so self-satisfied as that; I know very well that I'm not a perfect character, and that I've no claim on perfection in anybody else. [8]
- A wash is poured over it, and the whole scene comes out in all its perfection of detail. [6]
- A little clear perfection, undiluted with human weakness, goes a great way. [6]
- With respect to perfection, the following illustration will best shew how easily we may err: a Crinoid sometimes consists of no less than 150,000 pieces of shell (71. [1]
- But in reaching perfection, Sri 108 S. B. S. has escaped all that. [5]
- Nothing short of perfection will do. [5]
- It displays a perfection of workmanship which I really wish I had time to acknowledge in more fitting words, and I might then follow your idea that it is suggestive, for it is evidently expected that a good deal of whipping is to be done. [7]
- Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? [6]
- In the realm of thought the Greek is sovereign of the nations, and he has given to perishable matter a perfection of form which has elevated and vivified it to immortality. [10]
- All the arts of the East were there in their perfection, and some of the artificers were at their work. [6]
- I can think of no more expressive sentence in regard to her than the trite one that she pursued the even tenor of her way; and I found the very perfection of her wifehood exasperating. [9]
- Your reform will never quite reach perfection, for your temper will beat you now and then, but you come near enough. [5]
- He says: "I never lost an opportunity of impressing the Arabs with the perfection of American and English weapons, and the danger of attacking any one of the armed Franks. [5]
- And yet he needs must look and look, all his sight aching with this perfection, never overpowering him, but keeping him ever in the relish of his torture. [11]
- Try though I might, I never could achieve the perfection of this man's contempt for all other philosophies. [9]
- When Shakespeare was managing his theatres and writing his plays London was full of foreigners, settled in the city, who no doubt formed part of his audience, for they thought that English players had attained great perfection. [4]
- Nothing of man's making is perfect, but any creation approximates perfection in the measure that it conforms to inevitable law. [4]
- The praise that Madame Barriere lavished on Honora's figure was not flattery, because the Paris models fitted her to perfection. [9]
- He wore a long, double-breasted, claret-colored redingote that fitted his slim figure to perfection, and his gait was the easy gait of a man who goes through the world careless of its pitfalls. [9]
- Every feature, every line was of such perfection as only the artist's soul can conceive of, nay, even dream of. [10]
- None of us like mediocrity, but we all reverence perfection. [5]
- If you have known what perfection is in woman, it is fair to argue that inferiority cannot interest you now. [5]
- I do not know how long ago that idea was bred in me, but I know that I cannot remember back to a time when the thought of either of these symbols of gracious and unapproachable perfection did not at once suggest the other. [5]
- Today in all its artistic perfection and beauty it stands here to be revealed to the public gaze. [4]
- He said: "Fellow-scientists, it is my belief that we have witnessed a thing which has occurred in perfection but once before in the knowledge of created beings. [5]
- The Sheffield elm is equally remarkable for size and perfection of form. [6]
- The sight, for instance, begins to lose something of its perfection long before its deficiency calls the owner's special attention to it. [6]
- There was an inspiration in the air that one looks for rather in the mountains than on the sea-coast; it seemed like some new and gentle compound of sea-air and land-air, which was the perfection of breathing material. [4]
- I knew that, if I put up a complete stuffed man, the bird would detect the imitation at once: the perfection of the thing would show him that it was a trick. [4]
- One with you, I could have led the way on wings to the realms of light where Perfection holds sway!--But as it is? [10]
- Everything within the house and without, seemed to be the perfection of neatness and order. [12]
- The beauty of his person, the perfection of his oratory, the finish of his style, added to the sweetness of his character, made him one of those living idols which seem to be as necessary to Protestantism as images and pictures are to Romanism. [6]
- He was in his last possible perfection there, and justified his fame. [5]
- Some who saw him paused in their steps, caught unconsciously by the rhythmic perfection of his motion. [9]
- The perfection of her poise, the beauty of her lines, the charm of her face seized Carnac, and, with an impulse, he ran his arm around her waist. [11]
- But to-night, as he raised his eyes, he felt a queer sensation marring the ecstatic perfection of his mood. [9]
- Not one would have come to perfection if the sower had been too lavish with his seed. [10]
- If your literature has not struck perfection now we are not able to see what is lacking. [5]
- The arm and hand with which she pointed now here, now there, again seemed to him fairly instinct with life; and he, who deemed perfection of form of so much value, found it difficult to avert his eyes from her marvellous symmetry. [10]
- They said they had never seen anything that came reasonably near equaling its perfection except Greek statues, and they didn't surpass it. [5]
- Did the Concord Grape ever come to more luscious perfection than this year? [4]
- I guess he gets discouraged and feels disliked and in the way when he is lying around--but here he is perfection, and brim full of useful alacrities and helps and ingenuities. [5]
- His interrogatory gesture gave the very touch of perfection to this attitude, since it proclaimed him to have listened patiently to a charge so preposterous that a less reasonable man would have cut it short. [9]
- I came away from the great city with the feeling that this most complex product of civilization was nowhere else developed to such perfection. [6]
- He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might be best described as strength of will. [2]
- It is never found in greater perfection than in old clergymen and old college professors. [6]
- You are all for logic and perfection in government, and to get it you go mad, and France is made a shambles--" "War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle," interrupted Grandjon- Larisse. [11]
- She was perhaps five and forty, her iron-gray hair was dressed to perfection, her figure all that Parisian art could make it, and she was regarding Austen with extreme deliberation through the glasses which she had raised to a high-bridged nose. [9]
- A series of felicitous crosses develops an improved strain of blood, and reaches its maximum perfection at last in the large uncombed youth who goes to college and startles the hereditary class-leaders by striding past them all. [6]
- There was something exceedingly comfortable about that club, where the art of catering to those who had earned the right to be catered to came as near perfection as human things attain. [9]
- It was an education to join a wall group and hear the free and critical comments on the style, the dress, the physical perfection, of the charming procession. [4]
- We have to educate ourselves through the pretentious claims of intellect, into the humble accuracy of instinct, and we end at last by acquiring the dexterity, the perfection, the certainty, which those masters of arts, the bee and the spider, inherit from Nature. [3]
- When Nature has done with it, and delivers it to us in its perfection, we forget all the lesser fruits which have gone before it. [6]
- I have had dealings with some very bad couriers; but I have also had dealings with one who might fairly be called perfection. [5]
- And though we continued to dine for four days, and had as many breakfasts and suppers, our whole party never ceased to admire the perfection of the arrangements, and the marvelous results achieved. [5]
- One thing he continually realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexeevich had revealed to him. [2]
- He thinks that Brevoort, if he saw her, would infallibly fall in love with this "divine perfection of a woman. [4]
- It is beautiful before its twisted corolla opens; it is comely as it folds its petals inward, when its brief hours of perfection are over. [6]
- Was not perfection at war with the world's scheme, and did not achievement spring from a void? [9]
- Temples, palaces, bridges, aqueducts, cathedrals, towers of marvelous delicacy and strength, grew to perfection while the common people lived in hovels, and the richest lodged in the most gloomy and contracted quarters. [4]
- Is n't there any old whisper which will tarnish that wearisome aureole of saintly perfection? [6]
- There isn't such another little piece of perfection in the world as she is. [5]
- Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen's chair was finally awarded to a nephew of Judge Short, who could turn a story to perfection. [9]
- And then," she added, regarding him critically, "although you are very near perfection, there are some things you ought to see and learn to make your education complete. [9]
- Well, that is acting, as artificial as a sonnet, the perfection of training, skill in an art. [4]
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