| 单词 | perfectible |
| 例句 | All Mankind seemed perfectible & we had Painters & Poets & we were indeed Lords of Matter, all number’d cleanly & meetly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His basic contention is that the left once upon a time believed that our country, for all its flaws, was both perfectible and worth perfecting. Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The human form, and thus the human spirit, is perfectible. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z Inside its walls, an ideal community of scholars and students hold soft hands, united in their vision of a perfectible future. The ivory tower doesn’t exist: Mizzou’s boycott victory can’t be dismissed as just another “campus p.c. culture” controversy 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Film has a stability that a play lacks — it’s idealized, perfectible, a best-case scenario. ‘What If They Went to Moscow?’ Review: Chekhov, Sliced and Spliced 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z An emerging technological view of humanity and its discontents that largely bypasses the post-Freudian model proposes an unsettling new ideal of the human being as a perfectible machine that through cloning is theoretically immortal. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z Together, they form a memorial to the faded notion that life is perfectible. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The measure may have flaws, she adds, but “every law is perfectible.” In frenzied vote, Mexico's lawmakers pass controversial science reform bill 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z “I am deeply convinced that democracy will prevail,” she said, adding that “democracy may not be perfect but it is perfectible.” A Time of Unease and Challenge for Democracy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z There is a belief among many of these folks that human nature is, if not maybe perfectible, that there's a kind of openness, what bell hooks talks about as revolutionary love. To renew democracy we need big dreams: Why utopian visions are necessary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z “I’m still convinced that while America is not perfect, it is still perfectible.” Vartan Gregorian, longtime president of Carnegie Corp., dies 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Physics may also dispense with ideals such as theories of everything, or at least perfectible concepts that describe a mathematical double for the universe. The Future of Science Storytelling 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It was not that we saw ourselves as infinitely perfectible. Behrouz Boochani exposed Australia's evil on Manus. The shame will outlive us all | Richard Flanagan 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Detection technologies are evolving and they are all perfectible, Jennifer Strauss, external relations officer at the Berkeley Seismology Lab told Reuters. After massive quakes, millions in Mexico turn to early warning app 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z For my part, I have always believed that American democracy is not perfect, but it is perfectible. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z In my vulnerability, I am seeing my world without the Instagrammed filter of breezy certainties and perfectible moments. Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Of course, no messy, fleshy human waves good-bye to their happy, imperfect spouse for a morning commute only to be suddenly rendered rational and perfectible by the time they get to the office. Want To Be A Great Manager? Be Good Enough 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z He knew he and his nation lived in twilight, and that nothing was perfect nor perfectible. How the Presidents Judge One Another 2014-02-15T23:05:24Z Detection technologies are evolving and they are all perfectible, Jennifer Strauss, external relations officer at the Berkeley Seismology Lab told Reuters. After massive quakes, millions in Mexico turn to early warning app 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z "The coalition is a perfectible instrument, it can be improved, it can be perfected. We are taking the initiative to speed up this process," Mr Aveledo told Venezuela's Union Radio. Venezuela emerges from trying year 2013-12-29T00:05:58Z But, regarded in its historical evolution, not only is it perfectible, but it must ceaselessly progress, since, for it, to progress is to realise itself. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The notion of some perfectible suburban-exurban idyll persists, but whatever simplistic, monochromatic image lingers from the 19th or 20th century becomes ever less relevant. Our Towns: In the Suburbs, a Constancy of Change 2011-04-06T22:50:13Z Strictly speaking, it is only finite being, potential being, capable of completion, that can be spoken of as perfectible, or, when fully actualized, perfect. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Shaftesbury's a priori "virtuoso theory of benevolence" may be viewed as complementary to Locke's psychology to the extent that both have within them the implication that through education and reform man may become perfectible. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z But as man is perfectible this condition of things cannot last. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z The mammal remains the highest type of animal existence, and subsequent progress has been shown in the perfecting of that type where most perfectible. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z It suggests that people are, if not perfectible, at least morally malleable in positive ways. The origins of selflessness: Fair play 2010-03-18T15:18:00Z Jim found life very sweet as he grew into the hearts of the townsfolk and came to know their perfectible qualities; he was acquiring a fine reputation for pulpit oratory. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Mankind seems hopeless, and he has to prove it perfectible. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle It requires some perfecting in detail; but it is in every reasonable sense perfectible. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 For life and soundness of body depend on the body being subject to the soul, as the perfectible is subject to its perfection. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province In both these ways the active intellect can be compared to the intelligible object as perfection is to the perfectible, and as act is to potentiality. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Without going more deeply into questions which we could discuss the rest of our lives," said Durtal, "I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. Là-bas Man, in short, is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle If your demonstration works out as well as you think it will, he has the authority to put you in a position where you can go ahead and perfect it if it is perfectible. Analyzing Character The optimistic confidence that man is perfectible, which means capable of indefinite improvement, inspired the movement as a whole, however greatly particular thinkers might differ in their views. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth He believed then that human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions? Ulysses It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals, some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in a greater degree, or that animals are indefinitely perfectible. An Essay on the Principle of Population Hence he is perfectible through nature, and merely conforms to nature in improving his mind and in bettering his condition. The Ancient Regime But then comes the imperfect, perfectible real, With its pain'd aspiration and strife. Lucile Yet some triumphs of philanthropy hardly seemed to endanger the conclusion that, while knowledge is indefinitely progressive, there is no good reason for sanguine hopes that man is "perfectible" or that universal happiness is attainable. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth In the sense in which Mr Godwin understands the term 'perfectible', the perfectibility of man cannot be asserted, unless the preceding propositions could have been clearly established. An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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