| 单词 | perfection |
| 例句 | The beat knights had gone to perfection, leaving the wont to hold their sieges. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember what I told you: the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His breakfasts may have been a cardiologist’s nightmare—eggs, sausage, bacon, pastina with a poached egg—but he considered his marinara sauce to be healthy perfection: just garlic, oil, tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z If this really were a new star, it would shatter that perfection—and once you accepted that the heavens were imperfect, who could say what might follow? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Ah,” Mary Anne mocked, “the voice of sublime perfection. Was that the godly one? The sainted brother? The perfect son?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not mind writing garden club features, school board reports, horse show notices, golden anniversary announcements—he pruned them as carefully as he pruned his hedges, rounding them toward perfection. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Grandfather is a Mask, and like most Masks, he’s never satisfied with anything less than perfection. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He grabbed it by the corner and blew on the writing to preserve its perfection. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The berries and raspberry preserves sweetened it to perfection. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Later it would seem to Pearl that the Richardsons must have arranged themselves into a tableau for her enjoyment, for surely they could not always exist in this state of domestic perfection. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Their boots, arranged in a row against the wall, shone to mirrored perfection. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z You can probably imagine that the constant press toward perfection might affect your relationships with others and the expectations you have of yourself. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Johnny thought in amazement how nonchalant and even sluggish Rab could seem about the printing shop, and yet he did his work with a machine-like perfection. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “My warriors have been trained to perfection. They are vicious, cutthroat—” “Dolphins,” Percy noted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Don’t we have a cheerful, simple morality here in Western Civilization: expect perfection, and revile the missed mark! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The natural New England taciturnity reaches its glorious perfection at breakfast. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere I looked, I saw Angel family perfection. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z His last assistant had come close to perfection, but he had ended up promoting her. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And that’s exactly when the word hit me in its full and easy perfection. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z To drum up public support for the law, legal injunctions were bolstered by insidious propaganda—a formula that the Nazis would eventually bring to monstrous perfection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It reminded him of slicing a yam with a newly sharpened knife, the easy perfection in every slice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Almost exactly, and yet the ways it’s not are more than enough to ruin any hint of perfection. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She loved clothes—loved the feeling of silk, of velvet, of satin, of suede and chiffon—and was fascinated by the grace of seams, the intricate perfection of an embossed surface. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I am far from perfection, but I'm changing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z LaPautre waved his hands modestly, as if to sweep away his incredible perfections. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We should credit it for what it is: for sheer size and perfection of function, it is far and away the grandest product of collaboration in all of nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It would amuse him to know how much she had idealized him, how he had become a person made not of flesh but of little crystals of perfection, the American man she would never have. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This I know: that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Are you perfect, Bailey? All those A’s—that implies perfection. Is that the answer, Bailey?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And what type of perfection is the best type? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z There’s no scenario I could’ve imagined that would have ended in this moment of perfection. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He'd point out the symmetric perfection of a butterfly, the sunlight shimmering on the river, and the delicate aroma of a yellow rose. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Margot doesn’t need it, since she’s naturally good, kind and clever, perfection itself, but I seem to have enough mischief for the two of us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was as though no eye but hers had ever looked out upon this purity and perfection. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Williams walks by me, and I ask him, “Is perfection possible?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Now, which one, the crooked walker, or the darling perfection? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To complete this vision of perfection, she was carrying a heavily laden breakfast tray. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z To complement is to complete, to round out, or to bring to perfection; a complement is something that completes or makes whole. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This girl’s name was Aluthra, and her skin was of a dusky perfection unseen in India for eighty years. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She says, “Look at it! What perfection! Thank you, Mason. I shall treasure these gifts.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot—how could he find perfection in such an average day? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottom line: There’s no such thing as perfection in gymnastics. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Whitiker’s ideal of middle-class perfection, with well- educated, smartly groomed kids gathered around a big middle-class dining room table, has two missing pieces: Nicholas and Willie. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In a way, I am disappointed, but I’m also relieved: I never have to worry whether your next book will live up to the magnificent perfection of the original. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It wasn't just her ivory-white breastplate or silvery kirtle—she glowed softly from within, radiating a warm, comforting light that elevated her physical perfection to something on a higher plane. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was part of the concept of the perfection of the heavens that the constellations had been the same for all eternity. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “That such small unbalances in the perfection of our system of supply and demand, as I have mentioned, may be the first step towards the final war.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z His hair was smoothed to perfection, his canvas shoes a chaste white, and he looked sporty in his linen knickers, his belted coat with a boutonniere of Queen Anne’s Lace, and his ribbed, knee-length hose. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been impressed with their perfection of equipment, discipline, grand gaudy uniforms, the pride of their officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My recital piece is nearing perfection, even according to her. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z For their wedding, he had imagined perfection, the house in Nsukka festively decorated, the crisp white tablecloth laden with dishes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Have you ever reflected on this idea with regard to your own mother and father, how your mother’s perfection was chipped by her judgment? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He held his head high, as though conscious of the perfection of his jawline, and when speaking to someone shorter than himself, lowered only his eyes, not his head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’d seen Dr. Cullen before, of course, yet I couldn’t help but be struck again by his youth, his outrageous perfection. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He just never tried to understand her perfection. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And—he can’t help but think—if he’s ever to become a true artist, he has to hone all his skills to perfection. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Every strand of her hair is curled to perfection. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z None of them, of course, had ever been so close to perfection, and the great majority adored her instantly. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There is perfection in a fight like this. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He had brought this art to perfection after years of egg stealing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I go straight to Ellis’s table and say, “Hello, fine people of Unity Valley. I’m taking the day to talk about perfection. Do you have an opinion one way or another?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A God of perfection and love would never have allowed the accident. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I thought, in the night time, that perhaps it was aiming too high. If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. It may mean the end of the Table. Supposing somebody were to find God?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And there was something about the carved perfection of her face that made her smile seem like magic—an enchanted ivory princess warming suddenly to life. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When nothing could be added to its perfections, a strange fate had befallen its creator: he had fallen in love, deeply, passionately in love, with the thing he had made. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “First Wife says she sees only what is Buddha perfection,” said Yan Chang. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His waffle is golden-brown perfection, its squares filled to the brim with syrup. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I stand there, staring at the perfection and wondering if it’s a mirage. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In the geometry of Euclid he thought he glimpsed an image of perfection and cosmic glory. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The young women of Marina Raskova’s regiments treasured the thought of finishing the war and living ordinary lives, drawing heavily on Marina’s model of perfection as a soldier, a woman, and a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For the remaining mile and a half, the sophomores settled in and rowed gorgeously—a long, sleek line of perfection—passing under the automobile bridge and finishing a comfortable two lengths ahead of Navy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva’s old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Wreaths of aromatic steam drifted around Cavern Hole; the fish had been baked to perfection. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “We strive for perfection here,” she told us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was this extra attention to detail, a supernumerary zeal to approach perfection that led him to spend part of each weekday morning at Hobie’s Grill. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Its red-gabled roof, nestled between two huge stone chimneys, also carried an aura of perfection. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the assumption that experiments would be carried out with technical perfection, the vaccine was a sure thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And Elena would remember that look on her mother’s face, that longing to bring the world closer to perfection—like turning the peg of a violin and bringing the string into tune. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sun had baked everything to perfection; even the gooseberries on the fence had fried to raisins. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s comforting, the way in myths the heroes are all one personality flaw from perfection. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Lying in the colored ward of die hospital, which was a screened comer of a larger ward, Eva mused over the perfection of the judgment against her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Madoc is patiently listening to her rhapsodize over the perfection of their garments. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari carefully pierced the meat with a stick Tidbit had triumphantly brought her, and after the fire had been built up again, each girl took turns slowly turning it until it was cooked to perfection. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, perfection was subjective—Rowan certainly wouldn’t call the man a perfect scythe—but there was nothing in Goddard’s repertoire of malfeasance that would suggest he would murder Faraday. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was this perfection which had convinced him that his charges had not run away—if they had been unhappy, they could have gone at any time during the months of their stay. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Could he not see, as I, that Dorothy Plunk was God’s perfection? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Mankind shall reach ... its native perfection ... and perfect...” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Earth was a planet, as Copernicus had said, and it was entirely obvious to Kepler that the Earth, wracked by wars, pestilence, famine and unhappiness, fell short of perfection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was about to cry out. My plan was ideal as all my plans are ideal. It was the moon’s ill timing that robbed me of perfection.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They would have blown a hole in their own perfection. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But by nine, when the boys finished work—during which they noticed nothing amiss—the sun had risen, delivering another day of pheasant-season perfection. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Visible blemishes on the surface of the Sun seemed to be yet another nail in the coffin of Aristotelian heavenly perfection. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It referred to a set of ideals and hopes, like human perfection or social equality, that philosophers mistakenly believed could be implemented in the world because it existed in their heads. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The great and noble effort to master the elements in order to achieve purity, perfection, and divinity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My mother looked down on me for the first time and saw the large tumor that had robbed her of a baby’s perfection. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “The colors are lovely, of course, but nothing says perfection like white.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Vivaldi’s Italian innovations, honed to sensuous perfection in the carnival city of Venice, travelled north across the Alps and found a fan in Lutheran north-east Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He asked me again, earnestly, to con it out; and I admitted that the letters were not formed in complete perfection; that it resembled somewhat, Liberty to Slane, with a wriggling trail after the e. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ash couldn’t answer, because her grief and anger now seemed so superfluous in comparison to the perfection of this fairy woman, who took her hand to lead her into the dancing circle. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z They cut all sorts of capers and whiffed the meat as it slowly came to perfection with the seasoning penetrating to the bone. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z "A mathematical Mind, the greatest Mind of all, a Mind full of perfection and love—this type of Mind is behind all of creation." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Normally gods talked only about the perfection of the flavor and how good it was to feel young again. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I waved my hand toward him and all his bewildering perfection. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Hamlet paused before coming to his point “I wish to discover whether a surgeon, by cutting out the cankered spot, could restore the vital spirit to perfection.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The process is more like work than play, and at the end, they are left with a tangible thing, as close to perfection as they could make it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Alchemists promised it—had been promising it for centuries, and if they achieved purity and perfection in anything, it was the purity and perfection of their failure to produce it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t think you ought to see things like that,” he said, making haste to transfer from Lenina herself to the surrounding circumstances the blame for any past or possible future lapse from perfection. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Home from the hospital, I sat for hours by his bassinet and absorbed his mysterious perfection. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed only natural to him that such a place would have formed his principled fiancée, who always strove for perfection, and he gladly followed her back to Shaker Heights after graduation. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He continued, showing her the perfection of wrist, ankle, neck, collarbone—all the thresholds he could reach. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And, completing his idea of perfection, there were no resentful Negroes or wild Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Peach cobbler is the love of my life, and the corner edge is perfection. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z No tingling, no goose bumps, not even a hint of perfection whatsoever. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Defy my parents’ expectations, even my better judgment for the perfection of Phil’s arms around me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “It is too much a matter of fact, but here it is.—What two letters of the alphabet are there, that express perfection?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Her uniform is pressed to perfection, and her pants are tucked into mirror-bright black boots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The immediate appeal of Lamarck’s idea was that it offered a reassuring story of progress: all animals were progressively adapting to their environments, and thus progressively slouching along an evolutionary ladder toward perfection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was the second time he’d taken on a true dump and restored it to perfection. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that—more fire. And then either the slag heap or, perhaps what no one in the world ever quite gives up, perfection.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the Recluse was a woman, jealous of Nicole, her perfection. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Controlled sterilization, research into communicable diseases, the perfection of new surgical techniques on the socially unfit—was it any wonder the best medical talents in the country were flocking to South Carolina? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I couldn’t figure out how so much perfection could wind up in one person. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snow’s greenhouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The Permian players had been trained and molded to perfection, every ounce of skill extracted and made into something, and it showed stunningly. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Wasn’t she content to be golden perfection without cutting away at me? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at a distance of a few feet, everything about him screams violence, from the short black hair to the big hands to the fact that each muscle is honed to deadly perfection. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She was tall and elegant, every feature perfection. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The floors are still tile, but they are polished to perfection, and there are windows everywhere. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The story goes on, and you can’t pretend that dropping one knot in a rug is the only mistake keeping it from perfection. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z That night was perfection, seeing my pageant dreams and my family come together like that. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z For this, you need centralized authority, elaborately detailed time schedules, and some sort of reward system based on speed and perfection. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Or is it really possible that she’s been inside Lily this whole time, zipped up behind all that perfection? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z After hesitating only a second, she chose to save perfection and leave the damaged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These breeches reached to just below the knees and from there on down she sported green stockings with turn-up tops, which displayed her calf muscles to perfection. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Discoveries in mechanics and steam technology were applied mainly to the perfection of weapons, the encouragement of superstition, the amusement of kings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She brushes me with her fullness, and I wonder what it means to be able to touch that kind of perfection. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Whatever her name, what she stood for was always the same—love and beauty and every kind of perfection. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “If perfection were possible, which type would reign? Moral perfection? Mental perfection? Would the smarter man win, or the stronger? The dark-skinned or light-skinned? Would the winner be the most beautiful?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “What two letters!—express perfection! I am sure I do not know.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a Hon merely turning its head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z An expert insomniac, having been one of the first, he had learned the art of silverwork to perfection. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z While Dad spoke to her in a low, sad voice, I stared up in awe at the silver handle of her suitcase, the perfection of her nails, the silky blackness of her hair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even from a distance, she was glowing perfection: long golden hair in an ornate braid, a high forehead, graceful eyebrows, a delicate nose. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Even the teens of Shaker Heights—whose main exposure to Shakers was singing “Simple Gifts” in music class—could feel that drive for perfection still in the air. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I tried to keep my eyes away from his perfection as much as possible, but I slipped often. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z This time all had brought baskets, knowing that the flowers were now at their perfection. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Today our cowboy brings a paper bucket of chicken, skin crispy and golden, smelling of perfection. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He handled the game’s controls with the calculated perfection of a machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A salted mixture of sunflower, sesame, pumpkin, and pomegranate seeds drizzled with honey and baked to perfection. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His lips meeting mine, cold from the snow and the ice, but absolute perfection. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Matt took out the dove feather and lost himself in its silky perfection. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In one corner of the room stood the automaton, which Hugo and Papa Georges had repaired to perfection. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Every house was a temporary watering place where warriors gathered for training and the perfection of their grim art before the tents were struck again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Would I ever get used to his perfection? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She had always been—existing from before time—like a goddess in perpetual perfection. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The frail light of the moon threw metallic rays across their bodies, and Jean de Satigny shivered at the sight of Blanca, who at that moment seemed to him the image of perfection. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Scythe Goddard loved to make it difficult for Rowan in these training sessions and always judged him harshly when he didn’t rise to some imaginary level of perfection. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A tweak here, a nip there, and Goude catapults his muses into the realm of almost alien perfection. Paris retrospective celebrates ad man Goude 2011-11-11T12:46:03Z She is willfully aware she is an outsider in this toy world of perfection. Mattel selling a Weird Barbie doll is antithetical to the whole Weird Barbie aesthetic 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z We see the child’s potential and we highlight the strength, not the outcome or the perfection. Perspective | Why won’t my 5-year-old let me help him? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The more you strive for perfection, the more it disappears. Top 10 tips for interior design 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Escoffier, known as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings", had very high standards for soup, claiming "of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection". ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z At the helm was writer-director Brooks, an infamous bully and 30-take maniac, coming here as near to perfection as ever he managed. In Cold Blood: why isn’t the movie of Capote’s bestseller a masterpiece? 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Set in the tranquil California seaside town of Monterey, the series explores society's myth of perfection and the contradictions that exist beneath the idealized facade of marriage, sex, parenting and friendship. Witherspoon, Kidman debut female-centric 'Big Little Lies' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z That Khan is a living representation of scientific hubris and man's obsession with perfection probably mattered less than the fact that fans knew Khan how to make Kirk bleed. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z In his work, he’s the bouncing board for the broader performers whom he regularly acts with, and it’s a role he played to perfection in Arrested Development, as Michael Bluth, the long-suffering younger son. Jason Bateman: ‘My dirty secret? Playing the straight man. Because he gets to be in every scene’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z There, he goes to work filing a wooden heel into a miniature Eiffel Tower of perfection. The Genius of Manolo Blahnik Is on Full Display in The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Our approach is deceptively delicious: carrots, potatoes, and chickpeas are blended to silky-smooth perfection, and, together with few additional ingredients, they create a sauce that is undeniably cheesy. This stovetop mac and cheese is so good you may want to make it when the kids are not around 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z I admire your striving for perfection, but do you think that given your early success that you have to keep proving yourself. "We never wanted to be teen heartthrobs": A-Ha lead singer on the band's longevity and "Take On Me" 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z From start to finish, from the butchery to slowly cooking and braising to perfection, for me a great dish is layers. Chef Michael Taus talks new restaurant 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s not like we ask for much: only perfection. Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In addition to representing physical perfection, though, modern Olympians also exemplify dedication and discipline. Sexiest Olympics ever? 2012-07-29T01:00:00Z I'm not enamored of the past as my image of perfection. Writer Gary Indiana on why he hates the '80s, Susan Sontag and his new memoir 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z This was displayed to perfection at the Hay festival a few weeks ago. Climate change is not science fiction, Jeremy Clarkson 2012-07-10T10:25:38Z Unlike more professionally produced shoots and articles, there is no pretence of perfection. Food as art: it looks almost too good to eat 2012-08-03T22:00:40Z “Just the beautiful simplicity of a 90-year-old guy walking down the street who is totally overlooked by the majority of the population, but for us it’s perfection.” Brand to Know: A Men’s Wear Line With a Nostalgic Bent 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, even supermodels—whom we are told are essentially the cultural exemplars of perfection—feel pressure as they get older. Jenny McCarthy’s Playboy spread hurts older women 2012-06-30T12:00:00Z In the studio, Mr. Masser was painstakingly fastidious; he would rework a song until it was polished to perfection. Michael Masser, top songwriter of 1970s and ’80s, dies at 74 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z There’s too much at risk because it’s so valuable to create sonic perfection. Talkin’ Fifty Years of Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The Hopes, whose birthdays are remembered every year, hang over Amy’s head all her life, since she will never be able to achieve the perfection of an unborn child. The 13 Biggest Differences Between the Gone Girl Movie and the Book 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The problem is the quest for perfection has cannibalised my identity. Great expectations: 'The quest for perfection has cannibalised my identity' 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Rather, I realized that my youthful Thanksgivings past were perfection, and I should not attempt to duplicate them. ‘I Became a Thanksgiving Orphan’ 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Seven is a biblically significant number, the number of completion and perfection, and in this spring of 2007 the Praise-a-thon began on Easter Sunday, the seventh day of Passover. “Empty suit” preacher sinks Indiana megachurch 2013-03-05T16:47:00Z The two shared a passion for art and architecture, and a relentless drive for perfection. Taking a Dip in History: A Pool Party at Hearst Castle 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z For all its technical perfection, however, there’s an off-putting artistic pretentiousness about Mr. Monteleone’s Four Seasons. Art Review: It?s the Craftsman, Not the Singer or the Song 2011-02-10T22:57:32Z Up on the screen, glowing with a golden hue, as if it’s already been cooked to perfection. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Since my deadline couldn’t wait so long for perfection, I decided to ask a Parisian acquaintance about her experience with the diet. T Magazine: Get Stuffed 2011-11-10T18:40:07Z After hundreds of test batches, Ms. Diadem landed on perfection. A Comforting Breakfast Sandwich Gets a Sweet Lift 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In New York, Mr. Kubo says he will take up to 60 hours to simmer his broth to deep perfection. TabeTomo, Serving Tsukemen Ramen, Opens in the East Village 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Cook is a skilled unpeeler of information; revelations and discoveries are timed to perfection. Review | Diane Cook’s ‘The New Wilderness’ is accidentally timely but also timeless 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Heifetz was the supreme technical virtuoso, a violinist of a perfection widely admired by his peers, as well as by critics and general audiences. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z These aren’t necessarily traits we associate with Mr. Chang; the late Jonathan Gold, in his review of Majordomo, summed up the Chang aesthetic as “cracked perfection.” Why David Chang Matters 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Pop-Country Echoes and Movie Songs Reverberate in a Cabaret Setting What do we mean when we use the word perfection? | Linda Eder: Pop-Country Echoes Come to Feinsteins at Loews Regency 2010-04-11T22:18:00Z But C.G.I. also allowed filmmakers to erase small mistakes around the edges of silicone pieces, taking away the burden of perfection. How Christian Bale Became Dick Cheney (and Other Tales of Transformation) 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z None is committed to the perfection of a predetermined vision. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The poet's delight in the sound and rhythms of language mirror his ecstatic vision of God, as exemplified by the perfection of the falcon's flight. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z Galaxy Quest has one of the cleverest, funniest plot premises in film history, worked out to perfection. Comfort films to watch while self-isolating – ranked! 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z With its blend of gently self-deprecating humor and easily digested science, this essay epitomizes our pursuit of perfection through process, otherwise known as the “life hack.” The New York Times’ “love life hacks”: What we can learn from the 10 most popular Modern Love columns ever 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z “It’s always a pleasure to see that a new vehicle has been found for Edward Gorey’s distinctive drawings, and in this instance a fey, imaginative little tale that fits them to perfection,” our reviewer wrote. Edward Gorey’s Children’s Books Illustrations, Revisited 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z “Good Girls” asks what would happen, what could happen if girls and women stopped angling for perfection. On ‘Good Girls,’ They’re the Criminal Moms Next Door 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “It was hard to get rid of the images of Judi Dench, for example, who really reached perfection in Lady Macbeth,” she says. How Marion Cotillard Tackled One of the Most Coveted Roles of All Time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The perfection of the shape of his tunes is what strikes me, his wonderful sense of the rise and fall of a tune and what makes it catch the ear. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z The look of David Hallberg represents a physical ideal the way that Michelangelo’s David did, a certain peak of physical perfection. David Hallberg’s Dancing Develops Via Russia 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The wabi-sabi perfection of her place contributed to my main takeaway from this episode: There is something just a little too perfect about Mimi-Rose. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah and Adam Try to Rebuild 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z At Christopher Kane, Arizona Muse modeled a multicolored crochet dress to perfection. | Love, Gradually 2011-02-22T16:41:53Z Memorable moments of perfection during my stay in early January included watching pink flamingos peacefully bending for shrimp in a crystal-clear lagoon surrounded by mangrove forests. Isla Holbox, a Mexican island that retains its distinct small-town vibe 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Paul suddenly rethinks his position on theft: “Recovery is about progress, not perfection,” he says, repeating one of the many mantras he learned. | 'Den of Thieves': Imperfect Crime, Indelicate Outcome 2010-08-25T22:08:00Z And when the cast blends those two driving themes, like in the "Bodegas & Dragons" sketch, it is – chef's kiss – perfection. The only thing my quarantine brain wants to watch right now is sketch comedy 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Custard is a glorious example of culinary perfection. Isol-Asian cooking: pantry staple Chinese recipes from an unemployed chef 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z It seemed like a small price to pay for the sheer shiningly precise perfection of the finished construction. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-08-03T21:55:05Z The thing is so simple in its premise and primal in its effects as to approach conceptual perfection. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The best pieces had the strict perfection of silk jersey, shirred at the shoulders and prepped for an arabesque. At Louis Vuitton and Valentino, Mapping the Season’s Genome 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Ask him about dough and he’ll mention that’s he’s “never happy” with it or that it’s “getting there,” as if he’s striving for perfection at the end of his pizza paddle. Frankly . . . Pizza! tosses pies that reach for perfection (and come close) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z While “Tár” unfolds in a rarefied cultural space, where aesthetic perfection seems less an ideal than a daily expectation, it also plants itself in a tawdry and contentious zone of contemporary discourse. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z They know the meaning of their own lives, and try as it might, the movie can’t help but give cancer credit for this state of perfection. ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Sets Out to Make You Cry 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z "It took 23 seconds to paint, timed to perfection between the bridge being closed to traffic and it being raised," says Sokol. Don't raise the bridge: Voina, Russia art terrorists 2011-04-12T21:00:01Z Then there’s assembling the pie and baking it to perfection. 3 baking tips from “The Great British Bake Off” for better tasting pies this Thanksgiving 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z It sounds like a band making a calculated attempt to crack the mainstream, with its smooth, shiny finish, its beats processed to metronomic perfection, its hooks sharpened and placed front and centre. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z But Ms. Houdyshell is trying to bring something more than technical perfection to Deirdre, a part she described as a “once in a lifetime role” and “deeply personal.” In ‘The Humans,’ Jayne Houdyshell Embodies Mom 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z We all looked up to him as the standard of perfection and trusted his judgment. Mine: The cranberry sauce server Don't aim for perfection, try to create a relaxed environment, that's what I think is important. Top 10 tips for interior design 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Everything was finished with a top-to-toe perfection, with beautiful hammered gold earrings and cuffs, small clutches, black stockings and shoes with ankle ties. Fashion Review: Glamorously, Tom Ford Is Back 2010-09-14T06:30:00Z Trump’s people may not have been able to arrange a better slate of performers, but the result was a bizarre kind of perfection. The Bizarre Perfection of Trump’s Inaugural Concert 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Frances Fisher is perfection as a seen-it-all judge who registers the homophobia of the times while suggesting that she really does have the boy's well-being at heart. May 26 at SIFF: 'Any Day Now,' 'The Invisible War' 2012-05-25T20:15:08Z So unanswerable are these questions that heaven's perfection is perhaps better conveyed through metaphor or music—the poetry of Dante or Emily Dickinson or the oratorios of Bach. 2009-12-11T19:09:00Z They all have played them to perfection partly because these roles are also who they are: husband, wife, lover, driver. ‘Drive My Car’ Review: A Director Takes Your Heart for a Spin 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Clive, Walt talks about the “illusion of perfection” that handymen create. “Parenting isn’t safe, it’s challenging”: Clive Owen on building trust with his young “Confirmation” co-star 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Keeping them separate, season both the squash and spinach to perfection with salt, pepper and a grating of nutmeg. Jamie Oliver: the recipe that changed my life 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z It awakens other appetites, longings that are too often neglected: for beauty, for strangeness, for the delirious, heedless pursuit of perfection. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z His glossy red tie matched the stripes in the flags behind him, and his close-cropped white hair had the immovable perfection of an action figure’s. Perspective | Mike Pence had a few things to say at the convention: Trump is great. Trump is great. And Trump is great. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Speaking of perfection, as a child of the Midwest suburbs, my first introduction to panettone, a traditional Italian holiday bread, was definitely within the aisles of a T.J. Cookies, cakes and a little Christmas history: 5 of our best stories about holiday sweets 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z What Pollini conjures up is the appearance of technical perfection, and the shape of emotion. Review | A pianist offers the shape of emotion and brilliance 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z “This ocean is everywhere already. Music and sound are just ways to unlock our dormant memory that right where we are is a whole ocean of peace, perfection, oneness, eternity.” Laraaji’s music has emphasized stillness and calm for decades. Now the world is trying to get on his level. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “He was all about the experience, never about perfection. He cared that it moved you.” Perspective | If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z In short the older we get the less tolerant we become of anything less than perfection in those who’ve accompanied us through the years. My friend told me not to freeze my eggs and now I'm childless 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Because if there’s human perfection loose in the wild, I need to see for myself. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Social media envy may be masking other emotions 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z I don't often wax poetic about apps, but Libby is perfection. Ronan Farrow's voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z O’Connell’s style is playful over-the-top perfection, and there’s a chapter on entertaining, should you aspire to a soupçon of his signature flair. Entertaining tips from the renowned owner of the Inn at Little Washington 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z In other words, they don’t let perfection get in the way of progress. 6 habits highly organized people have in common 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z As a man who dedicates his life to fastidiousness and perfection, and for whom English is not his first language, he will only agree to answer questions by email. Pianomania: the little film that struck a major chord 2010-08-16T21:00:00Z Some paintings shock with their absolute perfection, like the sublime “Girl With Pigeons.” Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Renner and Spencer also operate www.pinholeresource.com for those who want to try for their own bit of pinhole perfection. 'Poetics of Light': gauzy dreams through a pinhole 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Unwrapping a frozen Charleston Chew, biting into the sweetsalty perfection of a Reese’s peanut butter cup or daintily consuming a handful of unjustly maligned candy corn reaffirms the world’s wonder for me. Candy: The next battle in America’s health war? The pursuit of perfection is innate to artists and craftspeople here, but to reach it, the philosophy goes, is dangerous and an offense to the gods. In the watering holes of Tokyo, the highball reigns supreme 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Her pieces, she said, explore “the problem of the illusion of perfection.” Laura Letinsky’s Food Photography 2012-10-09T22:53:17Z Andrews is a people-pleaser, hoping to be a woman’s last stop on her search for bridal perfection. How a wedding dress maker is trying to stop the spread of Ebola Painting after painting makes reference to the fable of the Peach Blossom Spring, in which two fishermen accidentally wander into a hidden Eden where life is perfect, and the perfection never ends. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z Speaking to New York Magazine's Vulture blog about the film last week, director Joseph Kosinski candidly admitted CLU fell short of perfection. Jeff Bridges's age-spanning turn will be new Tron's legacy 2010-12-06T11:13:00Z Anyone applying for the most important political position in the country deserves to fall under scrutiny, but that scrutiny will soon become unhealthy, even suicidal for a political party, if it insists on perfection. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The sound quality is warm and intimate, with an emphasis on group feel rather than perfection. Regina Carter takes her jazz violin on a jaunt around the world 2010-05-20T20:12:00Z Nagle's abstract sculpture shows none of the gruesome narrative, but its formal perfection and intimate scale convey an aura at once tender, odd and sinister. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It takes a moment to discover the small, circular, white flaw in the ink, which mars the perfection like a beauty mark. Art in Review: ?PERFECTLY DAMAGED? 2011-07-07T21:00:05Z On Wednesday afternoon, she was partnered by Roberto Bolle, who, though devoid of interpretive individuality, is an exemplary partner and has many enviable perfections — of looks, technique, style. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, my grandmother represented American perfection with her cocktails and red lips. | Sydney Albertini 2011-02-09T18:11:40Z The instrumentation and the vocal tracks are so processed in pursuit of a high-gloss perfection that any sense of two people standing side by side and singing their hearts out is lost. Barbra Streisand’s ‘Partners’ Is a Duets Album 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z "In one of my judgings I called her close to perfection, so that says it for me." Britain's best baker is crowned 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It was more than a witticism; it summed up to perfection the paradox of , who has died aged 83. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z Do you think workout culture now has created an unrealistic standard for perfection? Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z “They were polished and shined to perfection,” he said. At Their Feet, Crafted by Hand 2011-04-20T21:40:48Z They are all routines, better practiced with a mind focused on perfection than distracted by fun. Video Game Review: London 2012, a Video Game From Sega 2012-07-10T22:55:43Z "Swiss Lips' blend of pop hooks and electro is perfection" – Dot to Dot. New band of the day – Swiss Lips (No 1,400) 2012-11-21T16:33:32Z There he directed the annual summer festival from 1948, leading operatic Mozart that Virgil Thomson once called “perfection” in its “animation and orchestral delicacy,” and venturing into Gluck and Rameau. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Our entertainment industry is trivial and banal: glitz, glamour and an illusion of perfection and enjoyment that’s very far from the truth. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s easy to beat ourselves up when we don’t achieve perfection or meet our goals . 11 strategies for getting through the holidays without weight gain 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z These cool, gorgeous, lonely spaces conjure up associations with both the futuristic perfection of virtual worlds and vaguely seedy memories of glamorous vacations and escapist activities. Artists at Winston Wächter gallery construct enticing ‘Summer Dreams’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z We are discouraged from reconciling our mistakes by a culture that expects effortless perfection and smears a changed mind as a "flip-flop." How to make a sbagliato, the friendly cousin of the Negroni that's a perfect match for a watch party 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z We weren’t looking for perfection, we just wanted a home. You can have a church or be a free woman – but having both is a struggle 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Partly it’s the relentless exposure to celebrity culture, to images of perfection and roaring success with little discernible talent. A Former Geek Offers Hope 2011-05-25T18:02:31Z I often grill with nothing more than a cursory seasoning of black pepper and sea salt, turning occasionally, basting with a little olive oil, until the meat or vegetables are cooked to perfection. Nigel Slater’s grilled steak with griddled mushrooms, bean and almond salad recipes 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z His work was handmade; his geometries were full of personal vagaries and quite different from the machined perfection of, say, Sol LeWitt, another artist prone to white grids. Jan Schoonhoven at David Zwirner 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z My middle-class American life had been one big push to do everything the “right” way, which drew me to Japan, a country obsessed with perfection in execution. The bride wore denim: I traded my “Sex and the City” years for a quickie wedding in Japan 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z “Germany, in the summer, is the perfection of the beautiful,” he gushed. Mark Twain Found Inspiration in Germany (Though the Language Eluded Him) 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z In 2003, when White and his ex-wife Meg released ' Grammy Award-winning album Elephant, Rolling Stone called it "a work of pulverising perfection". Karen Elson 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z This hint of menace has electrified all Coltrane's best performances and in his latest role as Mr Jaggers, in the new film adaptation of Great Expectations, it's deployed to perfection. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z These are marvelous things: broiled to perfection, smothered with grilled onions, spiced with a tasty Cajun sauce and accompanied by sinfully good fries. Ballard Brothers: Wild about the salmon and more 2010-09-23T20:19:00Z Joe Hill’s collection “Full Throttle,” especially the story “All I Care About Is You,” is perfection. Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z There may have been lounge singers before him, but he was the perfection of the form. Buddy Greco, the ultimate lounge singer, dies at 90 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z By the time we had carried them back to our table the fish was cooked to perfection in its tangy spicy broth. Eat up some Mexican culture 2010-12-11T00:07:08Z And act the smooth and smarmy cad to perfection. Seattle actor Mark Chamberlin: an appreciation of his work, and life 2011-03-30T23:12:10Z In Renaissance architecture, symmetry signified the triumph of intellect and the perfection of God’s creation. Analysis | That photograph of Pelosi and Trump is a work of art. Some say it’s a masterpiece. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z And why, especially, set yourself up to be measured move-for-move against a work of cinema that approaches perfection? ArtsBeat: He's Having a Baby: 'Birthday' in London 2012-06-29T18:30:51Z The late singer's family said last week the hologram fell short of perfection and shouldn't air. Ariana Grande replaces Whitney Houston hologram on 'Voice' 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z I wouldn’t serve it to a holiday crowd, but with leftovers, perfection. The Most Flavorful Easter Ham Starts on the Stove 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z How could Dylan achieve perfection and not know it? Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z “It is inconceivable to so many that someone could be disabled and also happy,” she writes, noting that our most archetypal stories provide only two options: glamorous perfection or pitiable tragedy. Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z I didn't know how to tell her that at a certain point, I'd stopped striving for store-bought, mass-produced perfection. Faith of a mustard seed: My almost spiritual journey towards making the perfect homemade mustard 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Hall has a reputation for her posts, which are in stark contrast to her fellow mommy bloggers and influencers who tend to present a life that looks more like perfection than reality. Controversial mommy blogger says she drinks wine to cope with kids 'driving her crazy' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In this searing, chilling sliver of perfection about a toxic relationship, the man is the psychopath — or is it all a game, with the tacit support of his complicit ex-girlfriend? 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Gerhaher, a baritone, and Mr. Huber have become bywords for sensitivity, cerebral depth and seeming perfection in a lieder repertory that they have made their own. 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z A year into our marriage, after numerous tests certifying his reproductive perfection at 36 and my dismal potential at 41, other dissimilarities emerged. Motherlode Blog: Why I Won't Adopt 2012-02-23T16:25:44Z But the US version doesn’t try to improve on perfection, it just allows the best parts of the original to permeate it. Insecure's Natasha Rothwell: 'I was deeply obsessed with David Brent' 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z When Neal does propose, he says, with late-adolescent perfection: “I love you. I love you more than I hate everything else.” In Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Landline,’ Magic May Fix Things 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z But in the fullness of time, the omnivorous larva is resurrected and transformed in glorious perfection. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Because the pressure of perfection is a form of clutter, too. What happened when a celebrity organizer quit her job and stopped trying to be Martha Stewart 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z On the day of the Florida primary, another commenter posted, as if addressing the hairstyle, “You were definitely a bit shy of the perfection we’ve come to expect,” adding, “I hope you’re okay!” Weighing In on the ?Callista? Gingrich 2012-02-10T23:51:11Z No dancer today matches the noble perfection with which Mr. Hallberg executes steps; the refinement of his line, the arch of his feet, the clarity of his delivery are all miraculous. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z But no matter how impossible perfection may be, working towards it is satisfying in its own way. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Julianne thought his tango was “perfection” and credited Lindsay with being a great teacher. 'Dancing with the Stars' Watch: It's TV Week 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z I would love to see less emphasis on perfection in the entertainment industry and more echoes of real life, including more diversity. After #OscarsSoWhite, Disability Waits for Its Moment 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z “It must be said,” he added a few months later, “that everything about it is sheer perfection.” ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z And the very notion of a definitive text is quickly losing traction — and with it, the ideal of that “perfection of execution.” When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It's the actual concept of the image that's the most important thing rather than technical perfection. Is creative fashion photography a thing of the past? 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z The resulting piece takes in the pressure on young adolescent swimmers, the striving for perfection, and the price of giving up their lives for sporting success. This week's new theatre 2011-01-01T00:05:46Z It came as close to theatrical perfection as one could reasonably expect — and not just because of Samuel Barnett’s splendid Viola or Mark Rylance’s delicious cross-dressing turn as the Countess Olivia. Tony Award Predictions: Readers (and Boldface Names) Weigh In 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s incredibly passionate music, which seems to push against the restraints of the perfection of its craft. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Really, the Scherzo approached musical perfection, a term I don’t use lightly. Review | Gould Trio near perfection in the Brahms 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Multiple facets of that complex perfection are indeed present here — and all followers of ballet, which has continually drawn from the ideal, may feel that here they are drinking from the source. The Body Beautiful: The Classical Ideal in Ancient Greek Art 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z What he hasn’t counted on is the way, for his teammates, the revelation dims his aura of perfection while exposing cracks in their less perfectly airtight psyches. Review: In ‘Take Me Out,’ Whose Team Are You On? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z As always, she makes pop perfection sound as easy as A-B-C. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Without a shred of sentimentality or false perkiness, O'Flynn embodies to perfection Stephens's rich portrait of the female capacity for endurance. Port – review 2013-01-29T12:59:14Z He mused on crispness — “the water in the lettuce” as a necessary element in a good salad, and frites whose perfection arises from “nothing but potatoes, oil and salt.” Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z In their view, it is the offbeat, dissonant, original, flamboyant detail that creates the illusion of perfection. In the Book ‘The Killer Detail,’ Considering the Essence of Chic 2013-12-06T23:33:21Z As for McKinnon, who has been preparing her Hillary for decades, her Hillary impersonation now approaches perfection. The Laws of Comedy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z He’s delighted with the cheerful front face of the original Mac, and obsessed about the optical perfection of the NeXTcube’s right angles. Was Steve Jobs an Artist? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Viewers tag along as Nosrat jets from Italy to Japan to Mexico, and back to her home in California, learning from the locals about how to achieve culinary perfection. 10 Recent Netflix Originals Worth Your Time 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Culled from the museum’s permanent collection, it wasn’t about formal perfection or a singular sensibility. Photographs by Horace Poolaw at National Museum of the American Indian 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z In his last chapter, he begins to reflect of the merits of the higher races such as his, and the ideal state of perfection to which they might be progressing. The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace – review 2013-01-11T07:00:21Z Even musicians approach the repertory with reverence and speak of its perfection, its subtlety, its delicate balance of structure and emotion. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z But if you care less about perfection and more about a speedy change, it’s also possible to spray-paint the blinds with their cords still attached. How to paint wooden blinds Following Lisa’s lead, I walked through the city whenever I could, to see what perfection looks like when life happens to it. Adventures in ‘the Most Organized City’ in India 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The encores opened with the theme and variations from Mozart G Major Sonata K379, ravishingly done, and close to perfection in its elegance and grace. Tetzlaff/Vogt – review 2013-01-22T13:31:59Z Because whatever your sport of choice, there is something uniquely special about seeing perfection accomplished, and not much in darts can equal the drama and the thrill of a nine-dart finish. How nine darts changed my life 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z There's the perfection of the rose garden, the tranquillity of the lily-clad boating lake and the perambulating white clouds of the sheep in the fields. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z I much prefer these fictional female creatures, who are cruelly groomed to laboratory perfection, and, instead of taking Instagrams, they kill. “Morgan,” “The Girls,” and the Beautiful Cyborg 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Dickey’s saints are petulant in their pursuit of spiritual perfection. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Bruno called it her “star turn” and Julianne was on her feet to applaud and called it perfection. 'Dancing With the Stars' Watch: It's Movie Night With Kevin Hart 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z TikTok user Fiefdom Design showed his followers that a simple bottle of red wine can be spiced to perfection with apple juice, orange peels, star anise, cinnamon sticks, nutmeg and brown sugar. Most popular Christmas recipes on TikTok revealed: ‘Grinch brownies’ and other viral favorites 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z That those Lilliputian items are, like Mr. LeDray’s sculptures, executed with fetishistic formal perfection makes the idea of control through art feel as desperate as it does heroic. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “Even on a technical level,” he continued, “I’d never heard him in this kind of perfection, exuberance, lightness. He was everything at the same time.” Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z They are potato perfection, with crispy edges, creamy centers and toasty bottoms. Who doesn’t like crispy-edged potatoes? Bring on the Hasselback! 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z If your happiness is all that matters, anybody who stands in the way becomes detritus in the ruthless pursuit of individual perfection.” The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z A similarly restrictive setup was exploited to perfection in “The Subway,” a riveting 1997 episode of “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Movie Review: ‘As Luck Would Have It,’ Spanish Film With José Mota 2013-02-03T23:34:11Z Wearing heavy eyeliner and tiny miniskirts, Californian quartet the Like are 1960s perfection: Wishing He Was Dead is wrapped in Motown- and Shadow Morton-inspired teen angst. Camden Crawl 2010-05-02T21:00:00Z And that would force us to confront our bodies as they really are; not the buffed, sheened perfection of youth, but the bumps, wrinkles and dry patches of middle age. Is it time to restrict nude scenes to the over 50s? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z And both highlight refreshing originality, rather than exhausting perfection. The Rainbow Man Brings His Mishmash Appeal to TikTok 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Bone-in chicken thighs are braised to perfection in a rich, oniony, tomato-based sauce with a lot of garlic, balanced with white wine and vinegar, and punctuated by briny olives and capers. Von Diaz’s Essential Puerto Rican Recipes 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z In the hands of an inspired writer like Liam McIlvanney, it’s the very familiarity of the hard-boiled mystery formula — burnished to perfection — that gives “The Quaker” its sinister sheen of greatness. Review | Based on serial murders that rocked Scotland, ‘The Quaker’ is a chilling suspense tale 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Both as lovely to look at as to listen to, they caught the character's mix of tenderness and spitfire volatility to perfection. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z The flavor is quite delicate and the texture lacks the meaty succulence of wild striped bass, even when roasted to perfection in a wood oven, as mine was at Nick & Toni’s in East Hampton, N.Y. This Hybrid Striped Bass Is Raised in Brooklyn 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Some makers of ice cream sandwiches show no interest in innovation, seeking only perfection. The Ice Cream Sandwich Comes of Age 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It is an aesthete’s ideal of pursuing moments of ecstatic perfection in art and companionship. | 'The Hedgehog': Behind the Prickliness Lies a Generous Heart 2011-08-18T23:17:46Z There's a huge selection of homemade curries on offer but it's hard to resist the temptation of old favourites cooked to perfection, such as their sweet, coconutty lamb korma. Eat and drink Edinburgh: readers' tips 2010-08-02T13:43:00Z There’s hardly a moment in the exhilarating, devastating revival of the musical “Falsettos” that doesn’t approach, or even achieve, perfection. Review: ‘Falsettos,’ a Perfect Musical, an Imperfect Family 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Nina's drive for perfection runs roughshod over her health and friendships. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z Ironically, when Barber penned the deeply sorrowful Adagio, he and Menotti were living in an idyllic cottage outside of Salzburg, Austria, a time both of them later remembered as "perfection." 'The Saddest Music Ever Written': Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings,' deconstructed 2010-12-03T00:53:00Z Like his creation, Loehfelm grew up in Staten Island and now lives in New Orleans, and his beautifully written novels excel at capturing the sounds, smells and rhythms of both places to perfection. Review: Loehfelm's `Devil in Her Way' is a winner 2013-04-30T18:10:09Z And Diana’s behavior becomes more and more erratic as the book begins to reveal the weight of perfection she has been made to bear. Books of The Times: ‘Perfect: A Novel,’ an Eerie Look at Life Via a Child’s Eyes 2014-01-22T21:56:35Z His pieces always seem to walk the tightrope between perfection and total chaos. The artists' artist: modern composers 2011-08-03T21:29:01Z When they're this good, short novels come close to perfection in a manner for which longer novels are simply not equipped. Short is sweet when it comes to fiction 2010-03-17T16:32:00Z The faint sexual frisson is judged to perfection, and not a word is misplaced. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z “Guns, knives,” he says, taking a pause timed to perfection. Dropping in at the Comedy Cellar With Amy Schumer and Leslie Jones 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z TripAdvisor is teeming with people two-finger typing “the lamb melted in my mouth” or worse still “the lamb was cooked to perfection” into the comment box, sure they are the next Jay Rayner. My life as an (almost) vegan restaurant critic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z “I was really interested in the perfection in the imperfection, because it’s a hand-done process,” he said. Hugo McCloud: Artist by Design 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Chrisley, known as “the patriarch of perfection,” has candid discussions with his daughter about her breast implants in one episode. Todd and Julie Chrisley Plead Not Guilty to Tax Evasion and Bank Fraud 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This was the constitution, palpably chaotic and corrupt, that some defended as "the perfection of human reason". Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z As a producer, he stripped away familiar elements from songs, favoring raw process over the perfection of “Rumours.” The genius of “Tusk”: Fleetwood Mac could have followed “Rumours” with more of the same — but they made this visionary masterpiece instead 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z This time the lovers—one soaring up toward fulfillment and fame, the other hurtling down from celebrity toward incipient calamity—are played to dramatic and musical perfection by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. ‘A Star Is Born’ Review: A Brilliant Reincarnation 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Warmer weather aside, the endless white landscape was a picture of wintry perfection — even for those from lands normally associated with breathtaking winter landscapes. In Lapland, Nature’s Outdoor Sculpture Park 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z “I want to be liked with my flaws because that’s the one thing that means something to me. Perfection is who you are, whoever that is. That’s your perfection.” Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z For the greatest conductors—masters like Bernstein, Tennstedt, Monteux, Levine—technique is a bridge to greatness, to the special place where perfection of spirit and execution combine, not just an end in itself. Lorin Maazel: The Man Who Knew Too Much 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z From agents to stylists to fashion brands, the system has traditionally seemed more invested in preserving its image of perfection and glamour than in recognizing its bad actors. Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Overall, I enjoyed it, though its subtlety proved no match for the BLT, a study in elemental sandwich perfection. A cynic tries plant-based bacon 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z A French pastry’s perfection drew on my science background, not my childhood memories. This Lemon Pie Captures the Feeling of Home 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Seeking perfection, we see what our dreams and hopes might look like. Roger Ebert's funeral targeted by Westboro Baptist church 2013-04-08T13:15:30Z It seems to fall short of the ecstatic perfection that the very word “poetry” calls to mind. Review: ‘The Hatred of Poetry’: Let’s Count the Ways 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The trouble with aiming for perfection is that failure is guaranteed. My paralyzing perfectionism 2014-05-12T00:00:00Z But it did, going higher and higher until the production as a whole reached a rarely felt level of spiritual and aesthetic perfection. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The warming spices of cinnamon and nutmeg, the hearty moistness of oatmeal, the simple yet decadent coconut-pecan topping—it is absolute perfection. Meme’s Oatmeal Cake is a buttery, autumnal treat for even the most beginner baker 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z I turned her beauty, her blondeness, her perfection, into something ugly and monstrous. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z On one hand, Nicol is philosophical about the elusiveness of perfection. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The char, the fat, the squishy perfection of processed bread sopping up the overflowing juices — doesn't it somehow seem like Americans' birthright? Even one of Trump’s favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z “You could argue that classical music is about perfection and virtuosity — trying to touch the hem of God,” Mac says. Taylor Mac brings 24 decades of delirium and music to Los Angeles 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The single oeuf arrived hard-boiled to perfection, so that the yolk was fully cooked but ever so slightly jammy, and the white was supple but not rubbery. Oeuf Mayonnaise, a French Classic Good Enough to Win Over Egg (and Mayo) Skeptics 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Except, of course, that it doesn’t, because perfection in sports, like life, is subject to the vagaries of chance and the booby traps of the human mind. Books of The Times: ?The Art of Fielding? by Chad Harbach - Review 2011-09-05T22:32:00Z But absent the oppression of a dust-free studio and imposing electronics working to capture sonic perfection, music lives and dies on emotive expression. 'Letter Home' is stripped-down Neil Young in his ragged glory 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z But you’re conflating faith, fairness, character, societal intolerance and those dubious perfection claims — and knotting them with the common thread of astonishing communication problems. Carolyn Hax: Different faiths, different expectations. Should they marry? 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The acting matches the fine-grained writing to perfection. Review: In ‘The Flick,’ Contemplating a Life of Stale Popcorn 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Her voice brings to mind a nautilus shell, delicate and porcelain-smooth but built with a peculiar curvature that may be a model of asymmetrical perfection. Joanna Newsom ? easy to appreciate, hard to enjoy 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z Recipe: Peppery Grilled Okra With Lemon-Basil Dipping Sauce These sweet, smoky kabobs caramelize to perfection on the grill. Fresh from the Summer Farm Stand 2010-06-21T18:04:00Z But in China, the birthplace of tiger parenting, kids whose parents control their lives with cheerless demands for perfection are becoming a problem. Tiger Mom, Hold That Growl 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z I tousled the hair on my blonde wig and became Zombie Barbie, destroying the image of perfection that she once represented. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Maybe if the show had 10 more minutes in the oven it would be baked to perfection. Party Over Here: all-female sketch comedy show has little to celebrate 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Now, with the addition of a building for the Menil Drawing Institute, there’s more perfection than ever to love. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z We went to a place not far from where we were staying called the St. Regis Cafe, a breakfast and lunch place: perfection. The Travels of Tony Shalhoub, From Paris to Austin 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Their pictures were in step with the emerging digital revolution: bodies verging on science fiction – among their acknowledged influences – expressed the quest for physical perfection and the growing unreality of human relations on the net. Digital revolution: Dutch exhibition looks back on 25 years in photo-fiction 2010-07-13T12:59:00Z Silk-screened with a new perfection, Warhol’s retreads achieved the visual impact, and directness, of a popular image always meant for mass production. When a Warhol for $225 Has More Heft Than One for $195 Million 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z On Years, the voice wobbles like a imitation of Auto-Tune, reaching for rapid changes in notes and never quite achieving mechanical perfection, which is unsettling and oddly beautiful. Laurel Halo: Quarantine – review 2012-05-31T20:49:01Z It might seem a stretch to argue for the full superiority of Fargo the TV show to Fargo the movie, which is pretty close to cinematic perfection. Box set blockbusters: when movies make better TV shows 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z At one point, the perfection of a Tollhouse cookie in the imperfect city brings tears to Tess’s eyes. A Debut Novelist’s Elegy for Post-Katrina New Orleans 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Bare-chested, with muscles rippling, he performed Ali's brief but famously entertaining leaps and turns to virtuosic perfection, nailing the scissor kicks, the revolving jumps, and the flashy spins, one last time. One more emotional farewell ends strong ABT season 2012-07-10T18:53:10Z When Pink Floyd’s perfection gets involved with the scene, a triangular bond of such cogent power shoots through us that if we aimed it at something it would probably explode.” ArtsBeat: The Art of Writing About Listening 2013-05-30T16:41:33Z He says he’s been all over Europe looking for a teen boy who embodies the perfection of Mann’s vision. ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Review: A Cautionary Tale 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z RR regular littleriver draws our attention to a real gem: "The mysteries of the human heart ripened to perfection in Terry Callier's silky smooth interpretation of The Song of Wandering Aengus by WB Yeats." Readers recommend: songs about gold – results 2012-07-26T15:03:00Z Half of nostalgia is remembering the perfection of an earlier time that, even back then, you were aware didn’t exist. Robo-James’ Time-Machine: The Unbearable Sadness of Levi’s 2012-08-22T12:26:38Z “I think that sometimes that search for perfection gets in the way,” the conductor tells me as we wrap up. Perspective | If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Like Keys’s decision to no longer wear makeup in public, the album is in part a pushback against phony, superficial perfection. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Caillat says the experience was emotional, especially as someone who grew up in an industry that places a premium on physical perfection. Colbie Caillat Breaks Beauty Boundaries in Makeup-Free 'Try' Video 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s hard to describe something so close to perfection. Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z It's an exercise in small tweaks, in hot pursuit of perfection. The absolute best way to bread chicken, according to so many tests 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z “I really thought, ‘My God, we are possibly looking at the closest thing to perfection that we’ve ever seen on a pitcher’s mound,’” Mr. Rose recalls of the early Gooden years. In ‘Doc & Darryl,’ Two Mets Recall How It Played Out 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z “It’s not like going for perfection over going for soul and spirit.” Neil Young made ‘Barn,’ his new album, in a barn 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Into this perfection moves fine art photographer Mia Warren and her 15-year-old daughter, Pearl, who rent a duplex from the Richardsons, an upper-middle-class family. Review | Celeste Ng grapples with both sides of the debate over interracial adoptions 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Don Draper reflects the American compulsion to sidestep the hard work of living a flawed but authentic life for the empty illusion of perfection, as shiny and skin-deep as an advertisement that promises the impossible. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z Small, intimate, gracious, delicious — it makes me feel so special every time I walk through their doors, as if you’re going back in time and the past is pure perfection. Where Should You Eat in New York? Go to These Favorite Spots 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The Observer's Philip French considers it a movie of "near perfection", ending "unforgettably with the line 'Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown!'" Guardian critics name Chinatown best film ever 2010-10-22T15:16:00Z Classical statues such as the Venus de Milo and the Apollo Belvedere are often considered the apex of human perfection. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z In the high-gloss world of magazines, where perfection sells, digital retouching is de rigueur. Noticed: Capturing a Self-Image 2011-04-15T22:54:08Z Ultimately, getting plantains right is about more than striving for perfection, even though I admittedly spent years trying to get those starchy rounds to taste like my grandmother's. Why a simple plantain press Is my most treasured kitchen tool 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z But Villanelle is not going to care, even to notice her awkwardness, which Comer plays to perfection. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The sunkissed perfection and freezing void of the American Dream have rarely been explored in such simultaneous detail. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z The pot-roasted lobster with aubergine caviar and sauce vierge was delicious, though not as memorable as the suckling pig confit, which was done to perfection, with terrifically crispy skin. Bites: Restaurant Report: TRB, Temple Restaurant Beijing 2012-06-01T18:06:57Z If one desire is to create a static, rooted image of perfection, another is to migrate, colonise and adapt different places, to make a home out of a city or a landscape. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z The sex object playing the role of sex predator works to perfection thanks to Monroe’s performance. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Nor do they hold themselves up as paragons of diet perfection. Well&Good NYC Website Appraises Beauty Products, Workout Studios and So-Called Health Food 2014-03-06T00:27:22Z The residents expected perfection, or something close to it. Condo wars: How a water leak turned into a $30 million lawsuit 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z While "At Home" pokes fun at the idea of domestic perfection, it doesn't deny that there is something joyful — maybe even lightly transformative — about cooking, crafting and entertaining. "At Home with Amy Sedaris" is the kind of pandemic cooking content we deserve 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The combination of silken, tangy curd and tender shortbread crust is perfection, as is this recipe from Melissa Clark. Just Desserts 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z In Midtown, which is still striving for perfection, a life like that would cost buckets of money. Restaurant Reviews: Limani and Estiatorio Milos in Midtown 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Alex has been into Vikings since he was a kid, so this was something that he was super passionate about, and he demanded perfection of himself. ‘The Northman’ Wasn’t Easy to Make. But That’s How Robert Eggers Likes It. 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z But Andrew eagerly signs up for Fletcher’s cult of perfection, though whether in the role of acolyte or human sacrifice remains in question for most of the movie. In ‘Whiplash,’ a Young Jazz Drummer vs. His Teacher 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z And perfection can be difficult to come by. Why it’s so hard to win you over, based on your Myers-Briggs Personality Type 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z She is both definite and fluid, while not turning her classical perfection into a distracting show of strength. ‘Don Quixote’: At Kennedy Center, the Royal Ballet flirts with greatness 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Houston, on the other hand, always traded on the power of perfection; using her awe-inspiring capabilities to draw emotional strength and rise above difficulty. Whitney Houston's voice was a show of strength, but also marked her downfall 2012-02-13T12:51:18Z But what we fail to recognize is the price that is paid to project such an image of perfection. When fans mourns a celebrity breakup 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z In earlier landscape art there is always a striving for the ideal, a desire to reveal the place in its perfection, and in the eye of eternity. Why is it raining in 19th-century art? 2010-06-22T11:31:00Z If the singing isn’t consistently on the note, her angelic perfection is compromised. Review: Judy Collins’s Clear, Pure Brook of Song 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z His work, he says, "is about the metaphors of the process - it alludes to the American past and to mankind's struggle to reconcile war and perfection". Ed Drew's Afghanistan: the first wet-plate conflict photos in 150 years 2013-07-22T16:01:24Z I just wish more men realized what a near-impossible standard is being set, and instead of fretting over their own lack of visual “perfection,” would just sit back and enjoy the show. How Muscular Action Heroes Set Impossible Physical Standards for Men 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z For sheer melodramatic ripeness on the cusp of noir, "The Bad and the Beautiful" — perfection. Titles that take 2011-02-10T20:35:47Z At the end of "He's All That," Padgett comes clean about her own contributions to societal standards of perfection while Cameron loosens up a bit and still keeps his new hair and clothes. "He's All That" and why the Pygmalion story is so important to – yet undermines – teen stories 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z It seems to me you’ve given your daughter every reason to believe that only physical perfection is of any worth. My daughter needs plastic surgery – how can I tell her? | Dear Mariella 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z On last Friday's Radio 4 Today programme, the historian Robert Service played his part to perfection, pompously advising the BBC to "get some sense of proportion". From Pussy Riot, a lesson in the power of punk 2012-08-19T18:30:00Z But the overproduced, overprocessed sound that "Glee" traffics in takes all of the warmth and freshness of Michele's voice and turns it into a Hostess cupcake, full of sugary, stale perfection. "Glee" could be great -- if it weren't so awful 2010-10-09T23:01:00Z "I don’t, however. Mine are near each stove I have for easy reach and that works just fine. Convenience is more important to me than storage perfection." Toss that old paprika! What experts say you should do to build a better spice collection 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z As ever, the show is rich in its own vision of what perfection used to be. In TV’s Silver Age, a logjam of shows that are ‘pretty good,’ but not great 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z As it happens that part, created to perfection Off Broadway by Elizabeth Marvel, will be handled by Rachel Griffiths, who showed she knew from dysfunction in her turn as Brenda in “Six Feet Under.” The New Season: New Season Includes ?King Lear? With Sam Waterston 2011-09-17T23:00:46Z It’s a testament to perseverance without the pressure of perfection, to celebrating our failed efforts and becoming comfortable with discomfort. Review | It’s okay to be mediocre. In fact, it may even be beneficial. 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z On and on until the glass was empty and the meat cooked to perfection: rare in the center, charred on the outside and dripping with salty, smoky, brawny juices. Grilling Thick Steaks, a Leisurely Approach 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z But the wig’s perfection is in its hairline, the high arc of gleaming, male-pattern faux forehead it exposes. Why Melissa McCarthy Made a Great Sean Spicer 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z This dance was pure perfection, and probably the first performance where I have been totally captivated by a performance on its own terms, without having to account for skill level. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Bad music edition 2010-05-11T12:12:00Z A: Whether it’s possible to refinish just a few boards depends on the level of perfection you require. If you want to refinish only a few floorboards, be prepared for imperfection 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Allen dispatches the hyper-chipper tune “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” and the tap dance with it, to perfection. ‘Spamalot’ is a successful quest for laughs 2014-02-08T03:50:51Z While Michelangelo was aspirational, using bodies at the height of perfection, Caravaggio was much more of a realist. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z Those who see the Mona Lisa's reputation as exaggerated are refusing to see how formidable her mixture of classical perfection and dreamlike ambiguity actually is; how much is in that smile. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z Once again it was Nicole-level perfection, except for not adhering to every rule of the dance which irks Len more than color television or women drivers. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan shows feeling 2010-05-18T13:20:00Z If you do one nice thing for yourself this holiday season, watch some people struggle to create a cake that looks like a roast turkey, and find solace in the fact that perfection is overrated. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Momentum Generation’ and ‘Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity’ 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z "Marc Anthony is synonymous with excellence and commitment to perfection," said Gabriel Abaroa Jr., president and CEO of The Latin Recording Academy, in the press release. APNewsBreak: Marc Anthony is Latin Grammy Person of the Year 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Griffiths' Galloway is a likable and alluring character in part because she's not an unrealistic pillar of strength and perfection. 'The House at Sea's End': mysterious remains 2012-01-18T21:16:10Z The most compelling political dramas usually subsist on a pernicious but enduring myth: that perfection is possible in politics. How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z But instead of projecting perfection, she has opted to be open about her mistakes. Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z There's a piece in the book by Rachel Simmons about perfection and girls, and about how much we need to tell them that perfect never happens, explicitly over and over again. Parenting a teen is as intense as a baby, but very different. Why don't we talk about it more? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z The brutal attack made headlines around the world and scandalized the renowned ballet company, a symbol of Russian pride and perfection. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty She can only approach perfection by becoming the dual character she plays -- the innocent and the evil. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z He drew a circle roughly 44 miles around the restaurant, forcing creativity to sprout in a culture that values perfection. New Nordic Cuisine Draws Disciples 2011-08-24T04:40:04Z Minds House is based around the feeling of the pursuit of ideals and how an ideal is a projection of perfection that is unattainable as desires constantly change. Palms – Minds House: New music 2013-04-22T15:17:00Z Absolute perfection, however, was not the important thing. Artemis Quartet 2010-09-17T21:01:00Z The wealth of tone, the perfection of form, the flow of energy were all glorious. Dance Review: Ballet Theater?s ?Sleeping Beauty,? 2 Auroras at the Met 2010-06-20T22:57:00Z Details are not prissy – indeed, the plastic is distinctly botched in places – but perfection is not the point. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z His learning curve is very rapid—he progresses from a virtual infancy to sophisticated adulthood in seconds, and proves his ostensible perfection by sitting down to the piano and playing some Wagner, at Weyland’s request. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Cancel culture, the insistence on perfection in political candidates, and the social media inspection of everyone’s former words and deeds carries a flatulent whiff of dogma, inquisition, and excommunication. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z That knowledge goes back to childhood, and it’s an oral knowledge, often from recordings, accompanied by an imagined virtual perfection, or that virtual perfection is a production they saw as children. With ‘Rusalka,’ Will the Fourth Time Be the Charm for Mary Zimmerman? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z A Malaysian fan who queued for three days to get into the first night of the awards ceremony said she loved how the K-pop stars strived for perfection. "Gangnam Style" takes top song prize at "K-pop Grammys" 2013-01-16T18:40:35Z Flesh is transfigured into a living sacrifice; celebrity is what you get when you achieve bodily perfection; and fame is a way to live forever. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z But the more time you spend with her, the more you realize it's all about perfection. On the set as "Glee" begins its second season 2010-08-27T05:39:00Z Song after song, he relentlessly pursues the perfection he alone could hear, and in every single case during this 15-month creative marathon, he achieves it. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z “I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection,” she told Caitlin Roper of Wired magazine in 2014. Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Have you ever damaged yourself in the pursuit of perfection? Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this' 2012-10-11T18:00:02Z “We’re aiming for perfection, but we also don’t want perfect to be the enemy of good,” Lee said. Bacteria can grow on your neglected makeup and brushes. Here’s what to toss and what to clean. 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Like a demented version of Hitchcock's "Vertigo," Pedro Almodóvar's elegant yet horrific "The Skin I Live In" is about a man who obsessively transforms his prey into an image of perfection. 'The Skin I Live In' is artful but repellent 2011-11-03T19:56:04Z For a certain set of artists and thinkers, Legos are not mere child’s play, but objects of both abstract and formal perfection. | The Shape of Things 2014-04-08T13:00:00Z Standing on its own, the last line declares the final barrenness, and saint-like perfection, of her extinction. Poem of the week: St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir by David Wheatley 2010-12-13T12:26:00Z But then I was beginning to realize the imaginary could never quite measure up to the unattainable perfection of reality. In Search of Lost Me Time 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Salzberg and others discussed the six “perfections,” actions that, if cultivated, lead to a more fulfilling life. Practicing the Perfections of Meditation, and Love 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The result was, he adds, “perhaps as close to perfection as is possible to imagine.” The Cleveland Orchestra, America’s Finest, Restarts Recording 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The air of perfection that surrounded Boulez, who died in 2016 at 90, was daunting. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Unlike the seamless, daydream perfection of correct consumer choices, the symbiotics of romance and friendship, duty and loyalty, respect and gratitude contribute to changing definitions of happy families. Time of Our Lives, the Years That Made Us - TV review 2013-06-23T22:18:00Z Since this may end up being the first cultured meat to ever be commercialized, anything less than total perfection would be a letdown for them. Eat it without the guilt? The story of the world’s first 'clean' foie gras 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s turned ambitionlessness into a sort of perfection, a cloudless sky. New Music From Real Estate, My Brightest Diamond, Harold O?Neal 2011-10-17T22:37:44Z Its adamantine perfection is the perfectly unstable embodiment of a moment of unendurable consciousness—of an ideal that was still awaiting its transformative action. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Unlike the rest of this session, this song is under control from the very first take, every beat and lyric honed to perfection. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z What kind of “perfection” was this — a document of a mixed-up performance, with the song falling down all around her? The Special Place Where Ella Fitzgerald Comes Alive 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The delay in opening was just an issue of pursuing perfection. Ga. aquarium to open dolphin exhibit after delay 2011-03-31T13:21:16Z I waited to serve the fried egg over avocado toast or a sourdough English muffin until I knew which one was the very best because avocado toast doesn't deserve anything less than perfection. The absolute best way to fry an egg, according to 42 tests 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z As a monk, Luther adopted a lifestyle of extreme asceticism, coupled with a relentless pursuit of perfection: He was known to confess for six hours at a time. How well do we know our heroes? A new book shows the darker side of Martin Luther 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z It was magenta, a fiery and improbable color, and its long, flippy layers draped across my shoulders with architectural perfection. Wigs are my superhero costume 2012-10-12T23:30:00Z ‘THE BAND’S VISIT’ Pretty close to perfection, and of a subtlety seldom seen in Broadway musicals. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The finished bouquet is shown off to perfection in a matte white vase. Grow your own bouquet flowers 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z "Today, perfection is a requirement," says David Taylor, assistant concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Classical musicians and the terror of the audition 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Their introspective, sedate tunes fit Araki's often frantic and visceral movies with surprising perfection. Araki's films are a crash course in shoegazing 2011-08-05T23:03:00Z We are not looking for perfection in very single task. Grilled cheese, meatballs bid for "Next Great Restaurant" 2011-03-04T18:46:02Z The deepening, with its improbable heightening of beauty, its improvement on perfection, reaches something further inside you. Nrityagram Dancers at the Temple of Dendur at the Met 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z To help you get your glasses polished to perfection and ready at short notice for any event, we turned to expert Melanie Wynne for advice. The best way to wash wine glasses, according to the pros 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Both dealt in a wilfully reductive version of rock music, and both had to face the consequences of honing their sound to perfection early in their career. Mot?rhead: The W?rld Is Yours ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:01Z The British statesman famously said that all he wanted was perfection; Julia just wanted food to be delicious. This pasta salad will transport you to the French Riviera 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z But Giles and the singer Cleo Reed find the beat, and their voices occasionally intertwine in these moments of lilting perfection. A Year in Marking the Time with Music 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z "One simple step might be more appropriate than doing the whole recipe together, so broaden your definition of success and remember that perfection is not the goal!" Easy, not-too-spooky Halloween treats to cook up with your kids 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z There is something feverish in this pursuit of perfection; Plath is obsessive, driven — ambitious, almost — toward domestic happiness. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z That was his personal contradiction, but what he made, and what he left, was a charming vision of otherness, a compendium of how to live and dream of perfection. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z "I mean, there is no way to improve upon perfection," Paulson says. The original Nurse Ratched, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" star, Louise Fletcher, has died at 88 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Although vegan baking can present some challenges, recipe developer Gena Hamshaw says that "the rolls rose on schedule; they were pliable to kneading and rolling; they baked up to sweet, golden perfection." I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z He added: "Like a sculptor working with stone, I want to remove all that is less wise, less noble, less patient, less present, until I become something closer to perfection." ArtsBeat: Avast, Ye Readers! Memoir Coming From Michael Bolton 2012-08-28T15:14:46Z Mike Birbiglia knows what he’s doing: At this point, his act is baked to golden perfection. ‘The Old Man & the Pool’ Review: Wading Into Mike Birbiglia’s Comfort Zone 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Elsewhere there are performances of such favourites as Morgen, Allerseelen and Wiegenlied, where her hovering, silvery soprano is heard to perfection. Strauss: Orchestral Songs - review 2011-02-10T23:00:01Z Di Lasso’s style never fully conformed to the luxurious perfection of his age. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The film critic Pauline Kael called the film “a continuous rock experience that keeps building, becoming ever more intense and euphoric” and “close to perfection.” Jonathan Demme’s Finest Musical Moments 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The 29-year-old plays a New York ballerina whose obsession with technical perfection takes a heavy toll on mind and body. Natalie Portman earns early awards buzz for ballet drama 2010-09-02T15:58:00Z Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly The ancient Greeks did not require perfection of their heroes, only greatness. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z Mary Richards — played to perfection by the beloved Mary Tyler Moore — was more than a role model, she was a template. ‘Making It on My Own,’ With Mary Tyler Moore as a Guide 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z “A Perfect Party” ultimately teaches that perfection is illusory: In life, the different, the unusual, the flawed can often be the most prized. ‘A Perfect Party’ That Celebrates All Its Guests 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z And as poet Paul Valéry commented, “We cross the idea of perfection the way a hand, with impunity, crosses a flame; but you cannot live inside the flame.” Review | Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ is a vital book about mental illness and recovery 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In the post-Comaneci era, the women’s sport is less focused on art and perfection, and more on athleticism and strength. “To break the shackles of gravity”: How women’s gymnastics captures our imagination every 4 years 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Set in a clinic where test-tube babies are fed alcohol to determine their social status, Huxley's Lab is a dystopian vision of a culture hell-bent on perfection. Huxley's Lab 2010-04-07T21:30:00Z Beyond that, expectations for performance on TV have been raised to impossible levels by music videos, with their faked, idealized live performances fronting the technical perfection of studio recordings. Mariah Carey Smiles and Glitters Through a Television Fiasco 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z He incorporated stunning hi-tech imagery with adult storylines to near perfection. Thunderbirds guru Anderson dies 2012-12-27T09:57:48Z "I'm not just in a cocoon of classical perfection, and what I'm not trying to do is popularise an instrument that's largely neglected." Cameron Carpenter: rhinestone cowboy 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z Among the affluent classes who already ate a healthier-than-average diet, the Instagram goddesses created a new model of dietary perfection to aim for. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z "It's been done to perfection," he says, citing the indelible performance of Anthony Hopkins. A tasty turn by Mads Mikkelsen as NBC's 'Hannibal' 2013-04-02T14:25:14Z In their red-carpet banter, the celebrities seemed less inclined to hide behind rote comments or the facade of perfection. Perspective | The most eye-catching red carpet look at the Oscars wasn’t a dress. It was a blue ACLU ribbon. 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Carefully shucked oysters, gathered on ice in a shell-shaped bowl, demonstrate that the kitchen knows not to mess with perfection from the deep blue sea. New in New York: 3 restaurants with flash, flair and flavor. 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z His clothes bridge a divide between polished and rough, cold perfection and the humanity of imperfection. Meet Yang Li, a designer putting China on fashion’s biggest stage The combination of sausage and cheese enveloped in a lightly sweet pancake-ey batter and baked to golden-brown perfection is hearty, satisfying, and easy to make for a crowd. 28 make-ahead Christmas appetizers for a stress-free holiday 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z And that’s antithetical to perfection, which is what this art form embraces. dance: American Ballet Theater’s Director, Kevin McKenzie 2012-06-15T14:41:44Z And Ms. Kidman, who turns Franklin’s guardedness into as much a revelation as a concealment of character, is pretty close to perfection. Review: In ‘Photograph 51,’ Nicole Kidman Is a Steely DNA Scientist 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z There’s a fine line between inspiration and aspiration, and we are probably doing ourselves more harm than good by expecting perfection. Perspective | Parental guilt is a cultural epidemic. It’s time to let go of who we ‘should’ be. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Whether the parental gimmick was aromatherapy or an obsessive quest for perfection, each episode left you glad you weren’t raised that way. Reality TV Parents Need a Timeout 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z A strike illuminates the system in which it takes place, and the messy space between perfection and failure within which change tends to happen. The Women’s Strike and the Messy Space of Change 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z There were Harvard beets; certainly they were canned, but my mother thickened their sauce with cornstarch and seasoned them to sweet-tart perfection. ‘I Became a Thanksgiving Orphan’ 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Helen’s was a fairly straightforward mirroring of a social trend in drama: an arms race of perfection. From Westworld to Homeland: pop culture's obsession with gaslighting 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Volgas whose doors clunked shut with a heavy perfection that made Mercedes engineers munch their moustaches in envy. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z All these shows are all a long way from perfection, but have a real spark about them. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-01-21T16:49:35Z "Rafi was a stickler for perfection," she says of her co-stars. Asha Bhosle: The voice of Bollywood 2011-03-14T21:30:01Z The latter, metaphorically cooked to perfection by Magritte, tastes just as good, maybe even better. ‘René Magritte: The Fifth Season’ Review: Where Day and Night Meet 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Writing a book about the quest for ethical perfection, Schur risked coming across as unbearably pedantic or worse, sanctimonious, but he grounds his overviews of abstract doctrines in self-deprecating digressions. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z THE string quartet is an invention of the classical age, brought to perfection by Mozart and Haydn. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z His seventh and final symphony is perhaps as close to symphonic perfection as a mortal can achieve. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z On the other hand, asked jeromeknewton, is it not possible to combine physical and mental perfection? Readers' reviews 2011-08-25T21:44:01Z She's conducted the experiment 78 times . . . and Elizabeth is someone who thinks that if there are no kinds of outside variables or contaminants, you can achieve perfection. "Sometimes you burn the lasagna": "Lessons in Chemistry" creator Lee Eisenberg talks cooking good TV 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z One would be that girls with low self-esteem choose classical ballet because the struggle for perfection reinforces their poor self-image. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z In addition to the TV ad campaign, it’s promoting a Facebook survey that asks knowing questions like, “Do you like your Peeps fresh, frozen or ‘aged to perfection’?” Hot chicks: At 60, Peeps more popular than ever 2013-03-12T19:03:39Z But while interested in precision and uniformity, “Corps” seems more invested in the effort to achieve them than in perfection as an end in itself. Review: In ‘Corps,’ Running Aspirational Dance Drills 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z He gets a free pass, because most singers don't even manage his few years of near perfection – even if he doesn't seem too fussed about his art. Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me' 2013-04-19T05:00:01Z Her life is an act, one she practices to perfection in order to imitate aspects like empathy. "The Bad Seed Returns" never really blossoms 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z He is also desperate for something to help him "escape the regimen of perfection and competence" imposed by his work, which "neither allowed improvisation nor tolerated mistakes". Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z The scene so many had dreaded was here at last, the final “Thanks, Obama,” played out to perfection. As TV goes, the inauguration was perfunctory and unimpressive, but it had moments 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z It's a form of self-domination and the pursuit of perfection, or something close to it. What a skeptic learned from consulting psychics — and astrologers, tarot readers, empaths and more 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z All of his work, Kartalopoulos said, has a “real mark of perfection” and “intelligent humanity.” Time, Remixed 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The talented gays are following the program silently requiring everyone to strive for extraordinariness and perfection. "Bottoms" takes a swing at the meaning of ugly, reclaiming it for us average, untalented people 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Rather than spontaneity or actual mistakes, this kind of manufactured "perfection" is really record company propaganda. Was Beyoncé wrong to lip-synch at President Obama's inauguration? 2013-01-26T18:00:01Z That is the only real dramatic issue at stake, the only question that might smudge the family Christmas card perfection of this story. Film review: The Blind Side 2010-03-25T22:20:00Z He floats in, relaxed and natural, bearing this burden of perfection as lightly as one of those glossy, twirly strands of hair that flop over his Uniqlo headband when he’s on the court. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Dickens, likewise, sometimes saw perfection in the little Dickenses, especially when they were newborns, or when he chose to embellish entertainingly about them. Books of The Times: Robert Gottlieb’s Book on Dickens and His Children 2012-12-06T19:06:19Z She is known both for her steaks as well as her seafood, all of which is highest quality and cooked to exquisite perfection. Cook this gumbo to celebrate the perfect unity of French, Asian, Creole and Cajun cuisine 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z You can tell when someone on TV who’s supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit, or tailored to perfection. What would Kim Wexler wear? Rhea Seehorn on her iconic ponytail, Marshall’s separates and class 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z But these are also home bakers, amateurs whose practice can yield perfection or something near it. A delicious end to an uneven season of "GBBO" 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z She is marketed exactly like a pop star, but says she did not set out to construct the image of airbrushed perfection that many people associate with her. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z On his fashion backcloth, this designer reached perfection. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z But of course now I think it fits to perfection, because I’ve been conditioned by the power of those visuals to associate Adagio with traumatic events.” An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z When I dressed as Barbie for Halloween, I wasn't making an attempt at perfection or beauty. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z “With inspiring passion, they are consistently looking to improve their offering and strive for perfection – making them extremely worthy winners and the perfect ambassadors for the fish and chip industry.” First plaice: Devon fish and chip shop voted best in the UK 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Morris used this to perfection in his film "The Fog of War," which dissected the life and career of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who oversaw the continued escalation of the Vietnam War. Scarecrow Video documentary recommendations 2011-07-21T15:01:04Z His hard-to-ignore theme: society’s attempts to engineer perfection are ethically egregious and doomed to failure. In Time: Justin Timberlake Tries to Beat the Clock 2011-10-27T22:04:17Z At times, your snappy demands for perfection left me reeling with self-doubt. A letter to … My narcissistic husband, who had an affair and blamed me 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “I used to pose on the toilet. I wanted so much to please him, because I fell in love with his view of perfection.” Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z By his own admission, he related better to animals than human beings, and his songs were littered with references to snakes, sharks, pigs and their primitive perfection, their unself-conscious expressiveness. Captain Beefheart, dead at 69: Music as an action painting 2010-12-19T12:42:58Z In House of Cards it is Underwood’s evil which is the burnished, high gloss perfection at the centre of the piece. How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z But there are other issues to chew on: the worship of beauty and the demand for perfection, the ethics of artificial intelligence, the moral responsibilities of playing God. The Scene of the Crime: A Jury Box? 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z There's little left to say about the concert film perfection of Jonathan Demme capturing The Talking Heads over four nights at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. 25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z We meet in a north London studio, following her photo shoot, but there is no artifice in the minimal makeup or artlessly swept-back hair, and the miraculous perfection of every feature is mesmerising. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Citing the young performer’s studied manner and flawless footwork, Mr. Nugent concluded, “Such perfection in a moppet is to be marveled at, and hissed.” Bobby Breen, a Child Star Who Hit a High Note in the 1930s, Dies at 87 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Give him anything he wants, because he is sheer perfection. How to make "Glee" sing in its second season 2010-06-09T11:40:00Z He spoke of my toes in particular: their contours, shapeliness and perfection. How these 5 little words can jump-start an illicit sexual affair 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The American vision of holiday perfection is a largely unattainable fantasy. It’s not just “Rudolph”: Holiday TV specials are mostly creepy, weird or depressing as hell 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z He finds Carpaccio, more than Tintoretto, “sailed nearer to perfection,” though he feels no need to dwell on the point, “his fame being brighter to-day,” James wrote in 1882, “than it has ever been.” Mysteries of a Venetian Perfectionist Revealed in Washington 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z "Pilgrim is electronic pop of perfection fused with soulful synths and melodies" – Mostly Junk Food. New band of the day: MØ (No 1,371) 2012-10-12T17:14:56Z My hands-down favorite is ‘Golden Splendor,’ an heirloom with elongated maroon buds opening to a perfection of a golden flower. Plant lilies in November for summer garden lovin’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z At the same time he loved the idea of classicism, with its cult of perfection and disdain for emotion. Art Review: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order 2010-10-10T21:37:00Z “Everyone projects onto you. They’re trying to create perfection. So you have the pressure of feeling like you have to be perfect. Then it comes out that you don’t want to be perfect.” Agyness Deyn on Moving From the Runway to the Big Screen 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Irony alert: As is the way in such fables, it is Akim’s perfection and obedience that attract the trouble. Review: Beauty, Blackness and Beyoncé, in ‘If Pretty Hurts’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The only revelation they offer is the immaculate perfection of their gleaming surfaces, from porcelain to stainless steel. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z It was a very high-pressure situation, where perfection was absolutely expected. In "Everyone's Table," Gregory Gourdet shares healthy recipes and an amazing story of perseverance 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The ugly selfie, then, is a kind of playful slice of authenticity in an age where everything seems airbrushed to perfection. With Some Selfies, the Uglier the Better 2014-02-21T21:58:08Z Alastair Macaulay wrote in The New York Times then that he represented “a certain peak of physical perfection.” David Hallberg’s Much-Anticipated Stage Return Is Just Weeks Away 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Next to the perfection of "Rolling in the Deep," "21" is lacking. Poised for Grammy coronation 2012-02-03T16:49:20Z “You get the idea! It’s not going to be perfect. But perfection is capitalism.” Willie Norris Has Some Words For Us 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z But hell it's good, it captures with perfection the mood of the song and it's not one of those boring exercises in self gratification that many of even the greatest players are guilty of. What's the best ever guitar solo? 2012-07-20T11:33:35Z A portion of our parasocial relationships with celebrities exist because we yearn for their pristine images of wealth, perfection, endless opportunities and success. When fans mourns a celebrity breakup 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z True, James Spader had played the part to near perfection when the show opened in December. | 'Race': Eddie Izzard in David Mamet?s ?Race? 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z As the foundation staff pieced together the background facts, Mr. Rower said, “the story unrolled into perfection.” Antiques: A Glimpse of Léger, a Good Look at Lalique 2014-05-08T21:21:09Z The work requires a comprehensive knowledge of cars and a fanatical quest for perfection. Primp Your Ride 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The original version is the best, that bassline and vocal are dance music perfection. Six Songs of Me: Clive Lewis of Electronic Rumors 2012-08-07T08:39:00Z What most of the recipes did, that I never would have thought of, is frying the bacon partially, rolling it into the dough used to make the cinnamon rolls, and then baking it–– perfection. Your weekend brunch needs 3-ingredient spicy bacon cinnamon rolls 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z We are uncomfortable with the image of perfection and paradise, and so we are always looking for what might be wrong. Is New Zealand's greatest actor New Zealand itself? 2013-08-16T23:01:49Z Progress does not equal perfection, but it is fascinating to watch, even — and maybe especially — the failures. Midseason TV shows may 'Smash' convention 2012-01-12T19:24:50Z But how he admired the art of the scam, when it was executed to perfection. Theater Review: ‘Pippin,’ Directed by Diane Paulus, at the Music Box Theater 2013-04-26T02:01:15Z The notion that you practice a performance to perfection at home and then repeat it in a concert is “taken off the table,” he added. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Or are these just counsels of perfection, to be taken with a relaxing grain of salt? Motherlode Blog: Grading a Blogger's Resolutions 2013-01-01T14:26:36Z “We don’t want perfection. Consistency, yes. But we want to be as diverse as possible.” To Make Its Case, Armagnac Has to Teach the Teachers 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z "So letting them ripe on the counter or in a paper bag can just take them to that state of perfection for use." An expert guide to summer tomatoes, from Beefsteak to Roma and Cherokee Purple 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Chasing perfection was your duty and your birthright, as a woman, and I would never know what it was like – this thing, this most important thing for girls. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Proving, perhaps, that even perfection can be tweaked. Plant an oak tree — or better yet, start with acorns 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z But his obsession with perfection is wide-ranging and merciless, not limited to fish. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z But the image from “The Americans” surpasses that in perfection. Perspective | Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z After an unspecified number of tries, the eternal soul finally achieves perfection. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z Instead of replicating Polykleitos’ arithmetical perfection and Phidias’ impersonal muscularity, Rodin presents a nervous, boyish figure. ‘Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece’ Review: Recasting History 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z It would be bizarre, right now, to release a big shiny movie about the perfection of Christmas, because no one in this country is feeling big, shiny or perfect. Emma Thompson’s ludicrous Last Christmas is the perfect Brexit festive movie 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z “Christ was not into perfection, he was into people that were flawed,” he said. Building a Small Empire Through Viral Gospel 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Dinner instantly flambéed to perfection, and the beginning of a glorious tradition. Motherlode Blog: Yorkshire Pudding, Once for Nine, Now for Four 2013-12-24T16:06:12Z Janson describes kouri as “neither gods nor mortals but as something in between, an ideal of physical perfection and vitality shared by mortal and immortal alike.” New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z The just-right Final Cut splits the difference between the creative concessions of the original and the unwieldy sprawl of the Redux, a massive feat of film craft reined in to the general neighborhood of perfection. Is Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut the best version we'll ever see? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z I don't respond well to this idea of perfection. Jessica Seinfeld on being a part-time vegan: "If I can do it, anyone can do it" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z In deference to Mr. Le Carre and his peers, Joe answers to a leader who is played to rumbling wise perfection by Brian Cox and known only as Daddy. Cold-War thriller 'The Game' at the top of its spy game 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z They also prioritized heartfelt performances over technical perfection, Eddy explains. 2 of Seattle’s hottest live bands, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio and The Dip, kept sizzling through pandemic 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z The comfort of that table, and the solicitous service tended to it, remain something accessible across France, as distinct as the unctuous yet mineral perfection of a Gillardeau oyster. Wes Anderson’s Dream of France, and the Paris I Remember 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Then, he casually started the aria “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” without orchestra — an audacious sacrilege at the Met, itself a temple of achievement in the humanities, where perfection is the expectation. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z What he found was a theater dedicated to meticulous perfection; a wildly inventive show that takes lights, mirrors and legs to new heights; and a tense creative team busily staging a new extravaganza, called "Désirs." 'Crazy Horse': an enticing behind-the-scenes look at Paris cabaret 2012-02-09T21:57:07Z "I loved the Mondays, but the Roses were perfection," he says. Spike Island: 'It's not about the Stone Roses, it's about loving the Stone Roses' 2013-06-04T19:00:01Z No, I'm afraid we're talking about an entire career of pretty, sincere, pretentious and often risible crapola, a peculiar but intoxicating blend of badness that is brewed to near perfection in "Twelve." "Twelve": On the intoxicating badness of Joel Schumacher 2010-08-05T13:01:00Z Where other racing franchises aim for technical brilliance or perfection in real-life simulation, "Apocalypse" achieves excellence by delivering splendid chaos. Game On: 'Apocalypse' chaotic brilliance 2011-05-04T17:29:04Z Couture is about individual clothes made to perfection and often adapted by the client to suit her personal taste or pocketbook. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z They disrupt the painting’s perfection but recede, almost like a hallucination, as you pull away. In ‘Robert Ryman,’ One Color With the Power of Many 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z On Friday, too, the notion of perfection came to mind. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z And any illusion of perfection ends with their heads, grotesque hybrids of human and animal forms, with protruding horns, sealed-up mouths and burning eyes. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z "Some actors spend their entire careers waiting for the perfect role. Morgan showed us that true perfection is what a performer brings to the part," SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris said in a statement. Morgan Freeman to get Screen Actors lifetime award 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The fearful symmetries of their downfall, and the contrast between the perfection of their forms and the chaos of their collapse, ensured that architecture and construction were enmeshed in the event. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z This transparency, the floating, you see it carried to perfection in the Pepsi building. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z It's a thing of perfection – nothing is wasted, clumsy or off-topic – and it's a blockbuster that you don't need to apologise for loving or dismiss as brainless fun. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-10-12T23:05:40Z True, the show doesn’t qualify as a big nugget of musical-theater perfection. Review: ‘Paint Your Wagon,’ Starring Keith Carradine, Opens at Encores! 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Again, no perfection, just a willingness to try. ‘What are “sexual situations”?’: When kids read movie ratings’ fine print 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z And yet the mix-and-match perfection of the store’s selection lacked verve. | Epaulet: At Epaulet in Brooklyn, Clothing Meets Detail 2010-04-28T16:02:00Z “There is such a thin line between perfection and energy and life in Mozart,” Mr. Jordan said as he walked back to the rehearsal. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z In this, she was different from the mostly male artists with whom she was often linked, including Donald Judd, who used more industrial manufacturing processes to give his work an anonymous perfection. Review | An artist who stood apart from D.C. intrigue and the New York whirl 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “How beautiful, complete, brimming with infectious perfection all of this is!” France Confronts an Ignoble Chapter 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The film indicates its cinematic commitment with the perfection of these first roses — their almost shocking vibrancy complimented by a jovial Dean Martin tune. ‘The Rose Maker’ Review: Purloined Blossoms for a Blue Lady 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “The Female Persuasion” may fall short of perfection, but it’s still plenty strong enough to remind us that we can change the world, one woman at a time, even in the big terribleness. Review | Meg Wolitzer’s ‘Female Persuasion’ captures our era’s gender politics 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z It's become something of a cliché: the indie band who want to achieve the polished perfection of Michael's disco apotheosis. Kinema (No 749) 2010-03-18T17:56:00Z You enter across a bed of sharp rocks — an imperfection that illuminates the perfection of the whole. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z He practically encourages people to laugh with him, holding up signs with his mantra, "Practice is the road to perfection." "Phantom of the Open" is Mark Rylance's winning film about the worst British Open golfer ever 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z We took the struggles and the victories of feminism and interpreted them somehow as a pathway to personal perfection. Styles Q + A: Finding Satisfaction in Second Best 2013-09-13T22:08:17Z Arbour is annoyed at their choice because “Sports Illustrated models are the mecca of physical perfection when it comes to modeling,” as she puts it in the video. “Dear Fat People” shlock-vlogger freaks out over Ashley Graham’s Sports Illustrated cover: “Barbie had to look like she eats cheeseburgers to make feminists happy” 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z While Kurosawa’s last film, “To the Ends of the Earth,” was a slow-brewing journey to a young woman’s epiphany, “Wife of a Spy” is something like linear narrative perfection, with every scene perfectly calibrated. ‘Wife of a Spy’ Review: Trust or Fear in Love and War? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z After reviewing the hologram performance, she said the decision was made that it fell short of the perfection "Whitney's legacy and her devoted fans deserve," and shouldn't air. A hologram Whitney Houston axed from 'The Voice' next week 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z That version of perfection may have looked different from how mainstream society would view it in everything but its clothing size. In HBO Max's "The Way Down," one evangelical church preaches dieting as the way to salvation 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Encountering Japanese aesthetic traditions that prize acceptance of the process over perfection of the form — and don’t distinguish between art and craft — helped her think more seriously about her pueblo’s creative legacy and her own. Rose B. Simpson Thinks in Clay 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z "Some actors spend their entire careers waiting for the perfect role. Morgan showed us that true perfection is what a performer brings to the part," SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris said in a statement. Morgan Freeman to get Screen Actors lifetime award 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Twix, in my mind, is getting close to Halloween candy perfection, thanks to the fact that it's one of the few supermarket candies that really goes all in on textural contrast. Treat yourself to fancy versions of your favorite childhood Halloween candies 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Welser-Möst said on the podcast that the performance for the near-empty hall — with everyone “calm but extremely, extremely focused” — was “as close to perfection” as he’d ever heard the orchestra sound. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Besides, perfection — always easier to achieve within strictly limited parameters — is overrated. It’s time to embrace Denis Johnson’s beautiful corruption 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Baan’s work, while still showing architecture in flattering lights and from carefully chosen angles, does away with the old feeling of chilly perfection. 2010-01-23T04:33:00Z Darts is one of the few sports that can measure perfection. How nine darts changed my life 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z His primary canvas was, in effect, the studio, where he produced his music with a meticulous eye toward pop perfection. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The ballet's famous final pose — which, in Randall G. Chiarelli's elegant design, looked like it was creating its own light — seems to stop time, as Apollo and his muses achieve a sublime moment of perfection. Dance review: PNB's 'Apollo & Carmina' 2012-04-16T20:05:08Z Moreover, the decision to pair it with a simple, perfectly cooked steak places a lot of pressure on the perfection of the cook. Julia Child's secret sauce and the little black dresses of French cuisine 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He was in perfection’s neighborhood; human, fitfully and courtesy of actual fits. Review: ‘John McEnroe’ Captures a Perfectly Imperfect Tennis Star 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “More and more I felt greater responsibility for the completeness, accuracy and perfection in all the parts,” he wrote to his editor to explain the delays. Antiques: A Decades-Long Study Is Finally Published 2010-12-30T22:05:55Z This piece of cultural history centered on New York in the golden age of the 1960s, played up to perfection by Sotheby’s specialists, in part accounts for the phenomenal price achieved on Wednesday. 2010-02-07T05:26:00Z He suggests that young players work more on finding tools to solve problems — working on musical challenges — than just striving for perfection. He conducted at 3 and now he’s playing with Seattle Symphony: Cellist Nathan Chan 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z That makes the title, like the episode itself, poetic perfection. In the "Succession" season 3 finale, sibling unity arrives too late to save the Roy kids from Daddy 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Rather than being an aspirational brand that helps readers achieve Paltrow levels of perfection, it’s a diary of how pointless it is to try and look like a movie star unless you actually are one. The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP 2013-04-27T17:00:00Z The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the greatest in the world – the playing is perfection. Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder: Overtures and Preludes, etc 2010-07-08T21:55:00Z At 18, while at Princeton, he annotated the month of Feb. 1915 with a remark about his sense of perfection: “If I couldn’t be perfect I wouldn’t be anything.” Original Gatsby Film Payout to Fitzgerald: Less Than You’d Think 2013-04-29T18:23:44Z In 1988, he made To Shoot Without Shooting, a co-production with Shanghai Animation Film Studio, in which an ambitious Chinese archer's quest for perfection presents an allegory for the nuclear arms race. Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z The following year, he met Ansel Adams, whose photographs, he later recalled, "took my breath away by their perfection and strength". Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review 2013-02-03T09:00:03Z Nor, however, was she ever the picture of submissive feminine perfection — the "Domestic Goddess" thing was meant to be cheeky. Nigella Lawson: "Cook for yourself. No one else is going to judge you." 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Making the most of this patch of seaside perfection takes a village—or at least a compound. An Ingenious Vacation Compound on the Island of Nantucket 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z But that lunch was perfection: Perfect Rice melded with its Perfect Condiment, the sum greater than its parts. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Will it accept the perfection of this dish? How to eat: macaroni cheese 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Anonymous: I think all of our best selves get elbowed aside by our worst sometimes, and so aiming for perfection is not realistic. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How do you gracefully accept faint praise? Um, gracefully. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z So much depended on the perfection of the produce, the bread baking up just right or the roast not being dry — maybe because these were the elements she could control. Do not rage-cook mapo tofu, and other emotional kitchen lessons 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z This episode also finds Don chasing the illusion of perfection, driving all night to Racine, Wisc., in search of Diana. 'Mad Men' recap: Goodbye to Shangri-La 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z And while restaurants, bars, and quality service are certainly essential, at the end of the day, it's the bed that makes the hotel, and the bed in our room was perfection. Piles of churros and carnitas costra de queso: What a travel writer eats in Mexico City 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z I have these giant acacia bookshelves built by a Finnish carpenter called Tina Lotila, who in her Berlin workshop has a parrot that can simulate to perfection the noise each one of her tools makes. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z She continues, "Tender skirt steak marinated in a rich mezcal-citrus blend, charred to perfection, and served alongside all of the classic fajita accoutrements." These Chipotle Mezcal steak fajitas are a late-summer hit: Try the recipe 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Glenn Frey, primarily, wrote those creepy “Hotel California” lyrics; he was also the band’s charged-up taskmaster, co-writing the songs, pushing his band toward perfection and commercial success and ever more golden harmonies. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z On the outside, I’m striving for thinness, perfection and control. Perspective | It’s dangerous to ignore eating disorders in men. I know why firsthand. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Regardless of background, however, the through line for Ford models was always a clear, symmetrical beauty — a kind of glossy, poreless perfection. Eileen Ford and Ford Models helped define what American beauty looked like Pure abstraction, with its implication of perfection, is beside the point. Ranjani Shettar: ‘Night skies and daydreams’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Throw napkins in the washer and dryer; they don’t always need to be pressed to perfection. Eddie Ross: Ideas for mixing it up for fall entertaining and decorating 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Come back to the land of chess-piece perfection and ask yourself, what next? In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z The quest for perfection that she blames on magazines is idiotic. Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-10T14:00:01Z To chart his progress toward "moral perfection," Franklin kept a daily ledger in red ink of 13 virtues, from temperance to humility. Taking My Measure 2011-04-06T22:00:00Z She wound up dismissing the thought, however, deciding that flaws were more fascinating than perfection. Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Created in the balmy Côte d'Azur of the 1930s, their colours look baked to lush perfection under the summer sun. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Grace, who founded a makeup line, is put together from the outside in: She lives in a state of glacial perfection; in more ways than one, including her marriage, she's invested in appearances. Fonda, Tomlin lend maturity to Netflix comedy 'Grace and Frankie' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The resentments that boil over in the play reflect some of the distorted priorities that white standards for physical perfection have imposed on the rest of the world. Review | Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s a technical thing, but I am a little bit off the perfection that comes with it. On the Runway: Q & A: Philip-Lorca Di Corcia 2011-02-11T15:44:28Z In the awkward moment after the insult, a fellow guest offers a riddle: What two letters spell perfection? Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z There was a touch of madness about this whole thing, a fever that broke one evening with that revelation about the folly of perfection. This one simple trick can help you grill the perfect corn 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z No one needs to say a word; wide eyes and grins all around confirm the liquid perfection in our cups. Bread Feast, a welcome taste of Palena But what if perfection is not only a goal for its own sake but something on which the lives of others depend? Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z We’re imperfect creatures, able to imagine perfection but unable to attain it. I’m pansexual. Deal with it 2012-08-03T00:00:00Z Not all the names are big ones, but the message is: When seeking "perfection," be careful what you wish for. A New York museum march, made (somewhat) easy 2010-12-15T23:05:05Z They’re awe-struck by its beauty, marvel in its perfection of le luxe and recognize that its museums are among the very best in the world — and that its subways really do work. A Book Full of Reasons to Love Paris 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Wanamaker says that returning to the West End is "nerve-racking"; the hardest part is the challenge of trying to attain perfection for six nights a week and two matinees. Zoë Wanamaker: 'Acting is a vicious business' 2013-05-05T08:00:02Z It may not be fair, but much is expected from the network that reinvented television, and when perfection is not delivered people find fault. Deceptively simple 'Olive Kitteridge' unfolds as work of art 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z “Perfection without effort is, in itself, not perfection,” he said. ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z The brush invites a similar drive toward perfection, particularly when making challah and trying to paint every curve. The Artistry in Jill Bialosky’s Pastry Brush 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Variously retro, contemporary and omnivorous in style, the works depict aspects of gay history and subculture with effortless perfection and a palette of saturated pastels as complex as their narratives. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But really, the meat hits its perfection point at somewhere between five and seven hours, depending on the machine. How to get the best meals out of your slow cooker 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z “You’d think it was Star Wars. It’s sad because I don’t think we said all we had to say, but there’s an odd perfection to having one perfect season.” ‘Life is messy’: Judd Apatow on Freaks and Geeks, Lena Dunham and his return to standup 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z In her performances, “you don’t see the cogs turning. You assume that level of genius and perfection. It’s commonplace, on a less showy and performative level.” Sally Field’s relentless quest for respect: ‘The roles I cared about deeply I had to fight for’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Because the circle is a symbol of perfection to the Chinese, it signals that visitors are about to enter a special place. Like it was ‘made in heaven’: a secret garden in the suburbs offers an Asian-style landscape And, I guess, worrying so much about perfection. How master pie maker Cathy Barrow cracked the secret of a perfectly flaky crust 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Pretty much everything this day is in two or three takes, a hone for perfection. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Like a modern-day Pygmalion, Goude reworks the women till their perfection becomes supernatural. Paris retrospective celebrates ad man Goude 2011-11-11T12:46:03Z Whatever he delivers, audiences can trust it’ll be meticulously crafted and engineered to perfection – Greenwood earned a reputation as an obsessive studio tinkerer from his earliest Radiohead days. Solo performance: who should score Star Wars once John Williams quits? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Gayle King used the word “perfection” to describe the royal interview heard round the world Sunday night. Perspective | Oprah proved she is greatest celebrity interviewer of all time. All journalists can learn from her. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z “Everything you see in the show had to be precisely perfect for the period, so the music and the language could perform their act of rebellion against that perfection,” Smith said. A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z His interpretation was “pitch perfect, every beat of it,” starting with his audition scenes, said Taylor, who had to resist trying to get Nivola to recreate their perfection when they actually started shooting. Alessandro Nivola Put His Foot Down and Won the ‘Many Saints’ Role Anyway 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Another is a glossy cherry red, its finish-fetish perfection defied by a casual white scribble. Stakes are low and benign in Christian Rosa's paintings 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Nor are we quite so anxious to dismiss as "derivative" works that hone to perfection an idiom well established elsewhere. Karol Szymanowski: chasing beauty 2010-04-15T22:00:00Z Liszt was his own keenest critic, often making multiple versions of even modest pieces in a constant search for an elusive perfection. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z The question is, do Weston's still lives, in all their tonal beauty, their formal perfection, their technical skill, invest these commonplace objects with a heightened presence, or do they capture something innate? Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation? 2010-08-18T15:49:00Z “Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.” H.R. Giger, artist who designed the creature in the 1979 film ‘Alien,’ dies at 74 Neither household comes close to “Leave It to Beaver” perfection. | 'Flipped': Young Love, Back When It Was Sweet and Innocent 2010-08-26T23:52:00Z When the choice came – perfection of the life or the art? – he went for life. Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review 2012-08-03T21:55:00Z But what sets Casablanca apart not only from so many terrific movies made in the early ’40s but, ultimately, from every other American movie, period, is what might be termed its accidental perfection. The Best Movie of All Time Turns 70: Here’s Looking at You, Casablanca 2012-11-23T10:40:25Z So there’s Aaron Sorkin, obsessed with perfection in his script about a man obsessed with perfection, all the while worried that his daughter’s obsession with his subject’s products is causing her to cease to exist. Aaron Sorkin on the cult of Steve Jobs: ‘I hadn't seen anything like it since John Lennon was killed’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Shearer is also Olympia, the virtuoso doll in whom Hoffmann finds divine perfection. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “The fact that he’s still in pursuit of perfection is mind blowing,” he said, awe-struck. Kanye West Fans Turn Up at Donda Show ‘to See History Unfold’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Appearing to welcome the chance to set the record straight, he is soon dispensing quotable advice about striving for perfection and playing with heart. | ?Lombardi?: On Further Review, the Coach Stands 2010-10-22T03:39:00Z But there is always some unsettling quality within the perfection that encourages the viewer to keep looking. A Photographer Who Makes You Ask, ‘What Has Happened Here?’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z At the entrance to “From an Abyss,” Ryan McCoy’s show at the Arlington Arts Center, there is a minimalist painting of a black rectangle, its hard-edge perfection neatly disrupted by one white niche. Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Analogue, in short, demands that you make a decision – to read this one book, write this sentence, take this photo – while digital keeps luring us on with the promise of perfection and infinite choice. Why the digital era is destined to fail us | Oliver Burkeman 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, if everything conspires — time, weather, light — you might experience a moment or two in which art and the botanical-garden version of nature commune to near perfection. Review: A Garden Idyll for Noguchi’s Stones and Steel 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And for him, that’s the essence of Zionism: not redemption or perfection, but normalcy. Review: From Natalie Portman, Israel’s Birth Distilled in Mood and Memory 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Andsnes' tone and touch — so fine throughout — transmitted its stillness and gradations of quiet to perfection. Andsnes adds a bit of emotion to his repertoire 2011-04-04T17:07:00Z It is television as theater, striving for perfection and polish that in real time can never be achieved. At 40, 'Saturday Night Live' is still in its prime 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Over the past decade, Jacobs has spun his experiences of reading the encyclopedia, pursing “bodily perfection,” following the bible literally and other self-imposed Herculean tasks into New York Times bestsellers. Enough with the “year of” stunts! 2014-01-03T20:39:00Z But by noon on the first day, Welles had recorded every single one of his lines to perfection. 11 memorable facts about "History Of The World, Part I" 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z And in this world, with its constant pressures for perfection, that fact is frightening. Tweens deal with eating disorders, too: Why I write "tough" books for young kids 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Gaga isn’t in possession of an absolute laser voice like Carrie Underwood, but she’s come a long way for someone whose massive success has never been predicated on singing perfection. Lady Gaga treats fans to expansive, smart hit-filled set 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z As the title suggests, there wasn't much call for Aryan perfection in this film. Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun 2011-07-08T23:07:07Z He was such a believable model of Aryan perfection: too handsome and blond and blue-eyed to be naturally occurring, versed in chess, molecular biology and literature, and fond of reciting poetic epitaphs to himself. Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun 2011-07-08T23:07:07Z What any writer is after is perfection, but that is not available. Writer Banville enjoys new lease on life as Black 2011-07-12T21:04:27Z This was not a place suited to the lofty perfection of the High Renaissance, nor even to the moralizing of contemporary Dutch genre painting. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z But a closer look at trendy health food products shows they are not quite as close to perfection as their marketing suggests. 7 more trendy superfoods that are anything but 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z The French chef Auguste Escoffier, famous for enshrining the five basic "mother sauces" in French cuisine, raised soups to perfection in the early 20th century, developing refined preparations that remain classics today. ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Singing what she wants, when she wants, in relentless pursuit of perfection. Linda Ronstadt never stopped singing 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Also it was disturbing to see the clockwork perfection of the Disney machine threatened that way. Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z The opera becomes the story of her journey to regain the perfection of her imagined love affair. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z He reckons Parsifal is really about the opposite of an idealised perfection. Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z Even the gifted Northern novelist Jonathan Franzen cited the original Atticus as the epitome of moral perfection in a New Yorker essay on Edith Wharton. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z When compared to the engineered perfection of Turn on the Bright Lights, it seems that at some point Interpol was tamed or reined in by somebody or something. Ten Years After Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lines, Album Still Shines 2012-12-07T16:30:52Z As fowl cookery goes, it is something close to perfection. Bouley in TriBeCa Still Goes Its Own Way, Seductively 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “Personally, I’m with Le Corbusier who believed that standards lead to perfection,” says the design critic Stephen Bayley. Forget the greige age: the case for painting your house any colour you like 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z It distills Shakespeare’s complexity into balletic perfection, with Oberon and Titania’s rapturous final encounter surely one of the most beautiful pas de deux in all of classical dance. The Week Ahead: June 6 ? 12 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z This hunter is perfect, and perfectly caught, but his perfection is subordinated to action and intention. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z “It’s not about perfection,” Ms. Alsop said in an interview, repeating her message to the musicians. Music: Playing With the Orchestra in Baltimore 2012-07-13T16:19:48Z Solomonov thought the rice was slightly overcooked; he’s still going for perfection, after all, and this wasn’t quite there. The path to rice perfection begins when you start paying attention 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The Myron Diskobolos remains a breathtaking feat: It catches an athlete bent over in preparation to hurl, and yet, at this very instant of effort, it presents an image of geometric perfection. The Body Beautiful: The Classical Ideal in Ancient Greek Art 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z I think "Faith" was perfection, if one can describe such a rending portrayal of ultimate loss in this manner. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Their perfection, their lovely forms, which short-circuit suspicion and rationality, feel like propaganda. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z But where I saw physical perfection they saw deterioration. Burning Calories at the Met 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Growth, not perfection, is the point, and it’s audible. ‘Practice makes progress’ is the name of the game at Seattle’s adult skill-learning programs like Ladies Rock Camp 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Like Jiro, each episode will follow a single chef in his or her obsessive pursuit of culinary perfection. Watch the Trailer for 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' Director's New Netflix Show 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z This is due in no small part to the perfection of Mr. Parsons’s performance. Review: ‘An Act of God,’ With Jim Parsons as an Almighty Comedian 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z I consider “Dawn” to be one of her finest achievements and her only collection of short fiction “Blood Child and Other Stories” perfection itself. Remembering Octavia Butler: “This country views people like Butler and like Oscar as aliens and treats people like us like we’re from another planet” 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Alex Israel’s installation “Property,” consists of found objects that form a kind of tawdry sculptural rebus about the pursuit of physical perfection by evoking the body, gyms, medicine and illicit sex. Art Review: A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel 2011-05-31T23:36:56Z When did all of this adorable and covetable locker perfection start? Motherlode Blog: Decorating a Locker, Virtually 2011-10-10T19:36:15Z For some time now, media academics and commentators, such as myself, have noted western media cultures' hunger for stories of self-denial in pursuit of bodily perfection. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “The work is never complete, because there is no perfection or completeness,” Mr. Lee said. Squeezing Essence From a Stone 2011-06-23T22:47:00Z The fiction always comes out so horrifically defective, so hideous a betrayal of all your hopes for it – a cruel and repellent caricature of the perfection of its conception – yes, understand: grotesque because imperfect. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z “It’s the kind of insane unobtainable need for perfection,” Mr. Sutter said. Charlie Hunnam: Pushy When It Counts (Picky, Too) 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z At the time I was very young and Michelin in France was an obsession in every kitchen of every restaurant that was striving for perfection. Chef Eric Ripert on his revealing new memoir '32 Yolks' 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In inventing these vast compositions, both artists went beyond the public perfections of David and the Mona Lisa to create what are arguably their most personal, and tantalising, works. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z “It’s all about the movement of the trunk and the placement of the branches,” Bjorholm explains, adding that a bonsai takes decades of subtle shaping and pruning to achieve anything close to perfection. Meet the Brad Pitt of Bonsai 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Life melts into perfection when we pull up to this retreat just outside Austin. Glorious Summer Retreats 2011-08-10T13:20:08.043Z Click here to view Why Don't You Play in Hell? trailer The last Japan-set film I watched was Jiro Dreams of Sushi: a beautiful, deliberately paced documentary about one man's painstaking pursuit of perfection. Why Don't You Play in Hell? trailer – aka Jiro Dreams of Bloodshed 2013-04-30T11:26:32Z It’s not about perfection, but wobbly lines do happen. When Your Makeup Is the Party 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z They want perfection and don’t want to settle. Inside the messy, awkward, occasionally successful dating scene on the campaign trail 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z No industry prizes glamour and perfection as fiercely as does fashion, and Delevingne has emerged as one of its brightest stars, with more than 40 magazine covers to her name. How 'Paper Towns' Could Turn Cara Delevingne Into a Movie Star 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It only takes a simple six ingredients and six steps to reach guac perfection. Chipotle shared its recipe for guacamole, so you can make it without leaving home 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z TikTok is a place to laugh about the impossibility, rather than obsess over perfection. On Ballet TikTok, a Place for Young Dancers to Be Real 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z It is a style of history well suited to the antebellum decades, when American culture was most unabashedly itself — uprooted, credulous and bold with scattershot plans for civic and moral perfection. Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The matte surfaces have a startling perfection that seems almost pliable, like fabric or flesh. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z He also portrays a troubled artist who, while amassing a fan base, drove away those closest to him with a punishing work ethic and a demand for perfection. Getting it together for James Brown biopic 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Emma's invisible hand extends with tyrannical accuracy over the domestic scenes, and there is little relief from the perfection that she craves. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “Vanity Fair’s Women on Women” risks no such perfection. Hear Them Roar 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z With more than two hours of music, perfection is not the goal. Leonard Slatkin Withdraws From Met?s ?Traviata? 2010-04-01T22:30:00Z Right from the start, the talk was fast, the script fresh and the sight gags played to perfection. Police banality: why Brooklyn Nine-Nine is no longer arresting 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z I studied every little tiny characteristic of my newly acquired treasure; it was, and still is, absolute perfection. Def Leppard's Hysteria – 25th anniversary 2012-08-10T12:00:55Z Austen despised "pictures of perfection" – heroines who have no flaws. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z Isn’t public humility about one’s patent lack of perfection a relief in an age when women are expected to fulfill more roles than ever? The “hot mess” humblebrag: Successful white women still love to pretend their lives are in shambles 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The industrial perfection of their duplication is part of their appeal, as I realized when some visitor left a big, greasy handprint on the gleaming copper of one, destroying the match between the twinned pair. Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Our work, as parents of teens, isn’t to punish and shame them into perfection and innocence. Perspective | Good kids sometimes lie to their parents. Shame and harsh punishments will only push them away. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z On the other hand, so simple an object as a soup-size, nearly translucent white bowl carved from jade offers an almost magical perfection. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z Together they deliver electronic pop songs that near perfection, so it was hard to pick just one for MAP. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z It was such perfection in both plotting and prose that I knew I could never match it. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Even those with dark memories of the plastic perfections of cheerleaders may find it impossible to resist an encouraging cry of “Go team!” Theater Review: ‘Bring It On: The Musical’ at St. James Theater 2012-08-02T02:00:15Z “Togetherness with other people,” she said, “is more valuable than any kind of extraordinariness or perfection.” How Do You Stage Disney’s ‘Hercules’? Invite Everyone 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “He did a ton of work over the years, never less than first-rate, but the Twain performances approached perfection, and they will stay with me forever,” tweeted Michael McKean. Hal Holbrook, prolific actor who played Twain, dies at 95 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “A lot of what women have been presented as a model is about perfection,” she added. Maureen Chiquet’s Move From Chanel to Self-Empowerment 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z In this film, he plays the straight man to a lot of fish-out-of-water elements, which I think is incredibly difficult and takes a comedic brain to know how to play the straight man with perfection. A Minute With: Actress Lake Bell on going from indie to Disney 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The Renaissance “is always seen as a moment of artistic perfection,” he added. Inside Art: Christie’s Selling Art With the Rockefeller Name Attached 2012-11-22T21:38:21Z When the two nightingales return to the stage, we view them differently: the one needs the perfection of the other. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z The heat is controlled, soft and steady, and the pork cooks to fall-apart perfection. This is my favorite way to cook baby back ribs 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z “This dress is a perfect example of couture in dance, due to the perfection and simplicity of its cut, and the detail and subtlety of its embroidery,” Mr. Noisette said. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z How dare they violate the transcendental, Platonic perfection that is a Shakespearian text! Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z But very little of all that Suzy Homemade snack perfection actually happened. Motherlode Blog: Home-Cooked Challenge: Lessons of a Week Without Junk Food 2013-06-23T12:14:36Z Not much sign of perfection there, it would seem. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-05-04T13:00:01Z And their track Vessels includes the immortal chat-up line: "You are a triumph of natural selection/ Every mutation leading to your perfection." New band of the day ? No 998: Tall Ships 2011-04-05T14:55:34Z And that last shot of the entire sequence was perfection: they go in the room and shut the door, and the camera glides back and swings left, bringing the long, empty hall into view. "The Good Wife's" exquisite season finale 2011-05-18T13:19:00Z Was he, for once, second guessing perfection in this second session? Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z To become a shokunin, a skilled craftsman, someone who does the same exact thing every day to the highest possible level in the neverending pursuit of perfection. Jiro: Dreams of Sushi: a film about fish, fine-dining and fatherhood 2013-01-11T11:41:34Z A poem can achieve perfection — not a word you’d want to change — and in rare instances a novella can too. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z Your portrayal of a woman wrecking her body in pursuit of artistic perfection has won you the biggest prize that your industry has to offer. Clitoral injections and armpit nappies: what are the worst Oscar goody bag gifts? 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Given a choice – and not all these artists had one – the decision between perfection of life or work should be no decision at all. EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z It used to manifest itself as lots of songs; now it’s about honing the songs into perfection…. You’re welcome, indie rock fans: Meet your next favorite album, Car Seat Headrest’s “Teens of Denial” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Many of these, in their generic perfection, were obviously fake. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z Facades are carefully scrubbed clean; interiors, often blending minimalist white walls and a few painstakingly restored historic details, are reduced to a bland perfection. An Alarmed Architect?s Complaint: Preservation Distorts the Past 2011-05-23T12:01:01Z Without “chilled-out entertainer” David Brent we may never had a generation of deluded Apprentice contestants who thought they were also “the reflection of perfection”, or indeed the “sadcom” trend that has dominated the past decade. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Like “There Will Be Blood,” it casts Mr. Day-Lewis as an avatar of obsession, driven this time by the pursuit of aesthetic perfection rather than money and power. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z “I Feel Pretty” chastises those who consume images of female perfection for being vulnerable to the influence of advertisement; it ends with Schumer’s character preaching over a grid of multi-ethnic faces. “Growing,” Reviewed: What Amy Schumer Won’t Expose 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Before they dance, Gary promises their tango to The Addams Family will be nothing short of “perfection” and it’s not bad. 'Dancing with the Stars' Watch: It's TV Week 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The mutual enhancement especially clarifies both Nadelman’s debt to folk art and his original use of it: his playful but unerring perfection of line, shape, facial expression and applied color. A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But perhaps the crowning food achievement of Cremona is its perfection of the tramezzini sandwich, spongy, perfectly triangled white bread stuffed with myriad varieties of ham, tuna, eggs and artichokes and slathered with mayonnaise. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z When I became a parent, I knew better than to fall for that curated parenting perfection. The ugly, exhausting reality of parenting, and why we hide it from our children 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The self-pity is monotonous; endless disappointments with men, a quest for perfection, the boring details of the hyper-grooming, the classic ambivalence towards femininity itself. Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-10T14:00:01Z The orchestra's own encore – the brilliant final section of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours – was sheer perfection. Prom 10: Academy of Santa Cecilia/Pappano – review 2013-07-21T12:54:25Z Watching this, I was overcome with the perfection of her liquid eyeliner. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins: ‘People really thought that only men loved action movies’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “I’m not perfect in either photo because perfection does not exist but it’s taken me a while to realize this,” she continued. Instagram influencer praised for 'real' postpartum photo after backlash 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Lamb shanks were velvety soft in 40 minutes, short ribs fell off the bone in 30, and spare ribs were porky perfection in 20 minutes. Why Do Cooks Love the Instant Pot? I Bought One to Find Out 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Barbie sacrifices physical perfection – her own and Ken's – for the possibility of authentic intimacy and the spontaneity of an aging female body. Why "The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie" made 2023 the dead girl summer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z They’re beautiful and cheesy in about equal parts, but their weightless perfection and fleeting rainbows are something to see. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Every cast member is perfection and, for a geek like me, to have Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed in the same film is pure, uncut joy. Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson Peak 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Gamble doesn't have that scary perfection of the over-trained young actor; he seems genuinely, winningly moody, as if his director were having a hard time getting him to smile. Dolphin Tale: The Winter of Our Heart's Content 2011-09-21T22:15:00Z In both stories, the characters rebel against the unbearable myth of attainable perfection, substituting for it an alternative one of transcendent, authentic, freedom-giving destruction. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Narrator Mike Grady conveys the novel’s devastating irony and ghoulish surreality with dry perfection. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z "It's about capturing a moment in times, it's not about perfection", agrees Troy. Deap Vally plan 'assault' on rock 2012-09-24T09:57:28Z He recorded in a hurry, embracing mistakes and tossed-off lines while striving for productivity over perfection. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Composed of a stack of white marble cubes that pay homage to Constantin Brancusi’s “Endless Column,” it suggests that even a renegade like Byars occasionally longed for permanence and a surface of smudge-free perfection. Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z As an opener to this programme, Colin Matthews's finely crafted arrangements of three of Debussy's piano preludes underlined their perfection in their original guise and the utter futility of attempting to add anything to them. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z He achieved all he did by his amazing energy and a tireless quest for perfection. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z He achieved fame and adulation, but like the warrior monk or the Hasidic master, he sought perfection. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “Don’t worry about perfection. There is none,” she said. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z This new version of The Governor, played to perfection by David Morrissey, combined some of the best features of the old dictator. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor 2.0 2013-02-11T13:00:47Z Body positivity is laudably meant to push back against media obsession with twig-thin models and projecting an unattainable and unhealthily thin perfection. In an age of rising obesity, is body positivity becoming a negative for women’s health? 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, they have been hailed variously as "Foster the People with the stylish pop perfection of Franz Ferdinand", "Manchester's most exciting export" and "the band that might just save pop music". New band of the day – Swiss Lips (No 1,400) 2012-11-21T16:33:32Z Ultimately, these images remind us of the cruelty embedded in the striving for perfection, aesthetic or otherwise. ‘White on White’ Review: Problematic Images 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z “Sometimes perfection,” he said, “is a little soulless.” ‘Bridgerton’ Has Nothing on the Couture 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z "Midler's consummate ability to deliver brassy chutzpah, fierceness and silky comic seduction at the same time is harnessed to perfection, allowing just a judicious whisper of vulnerability," it said. Midler wins raves on Broadway as Hollywood agent Sue Mengers 2013-04-25T16:55:58Z But opposed to the supposed perfection of digital enhancements, there is an extra frisson in being able to see the stray splashes of paint. Georges Méliès's Robinson Crusoé film resurfaces in Pordenone 2012-10-10T14:22:02Z Honest, frank and funny, it's all the things you'd expect from a live "act" honed to perfection. No Hats, No Trainers 2010-07-17T05:45:00Z Literally two days ago, the actual swimwear now came, by a new manufacturer, and it's perfection. Bethenny Frankel talks leaving "Housewives," the Depp-Heard trial & her book "Business Is Personal" 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z All this simpering, soppy mothering, this hopeless quest for a kind of homogeneous perfection, is bad for our health. Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z We were sold this Platonic idea of perfection: you could make everything perfect. Tom Ellard of Severed Heads - what I'm thinking about 2013-03-14T04:31:17Z It all depends on the story, and on the perfection of great directors like De Sica. Sophia Loren Makes Her Return to Film: ‘I’m a Perfectionist’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Giving Leftovers a New Place at the Table “People want perfection, even if it’s a falsehood,” said Laura Letinsky, who is both a fine-art photographer and a professor at the University of Chicago. Laura Letinsky’s Food Photography 2012-10-09T22:53:17Z Downs's argument is that feelings of worthlessness can be created in childhood quite unintentionally, and these lead gay adults to search for an unachievable perfection. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z But the more sublime the landscape or representation, the more he yearns for an idealized “place of absolutes” in which that perfection becomes permanent. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Each, with its peculiar, hard, perverse beauty, is a complete narrative, a perfection. Previously Unseen Arbus, Unearthed Years After Her Death 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Separated from perfection by nothing more than a pinch of salt, ripe tomatoes inspire a very particular type of summer joy. Savor Summer Longer With This Cherry Tomato Pasta 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z This industry might not be the biggest, or even the best, in Europe – but what they do, they do to perfection, especially where those thrillers are concerned. Fjord focus: Nordic noir lets the light in at last 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Even if you seasoned salmon to perfection, and used some type of rare plant from the Garden of Eden as a garnish, it is still an unattractive fish to me. I used to hate salmon — until I tried this 4-ingredient honey marinade 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z "Firstly, the world is not just perfection and beauty, secondly the hall is a very raw, forbidding place." Berlin ballet woos new crowd with a dark show in a techno club 2013-05-07T14:56:24Z As tempting as it is to strive for perfection, it’s not possible. 8 Professional Mistakes Millennials Make 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Though her job requires her to get back into shape, she's not aiming for "some subjective definition of perfection" designed to please others. Olivia Wilde on her post-baby body: 'I'm a mother, and I look like one' 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z In his 2002 book “Vermeer’s Camera,” the architect Philip Steadman argued that the “perfection” of the Dutch master’s canvasses could only be attributed to the use of optical tools. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z "There's been too much attention to perfection and design," says Sokovikov. Artists Mint & Serf are trying to make graffiti ugly again 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But there’s also a heart-breaking vulnerability at its core, and the Venice players balanced them to perfection. Venice Baroque Orchestra goes for broke at Dumbarton Oaks 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z One person's idea of perfection is another's idea of too much - or not enough. | Editor's Letter 2012-10-05T20:30:13Z David Lebovitz's recipe is perfection — just heed his advice that "the trick is to get the caramel base as dark as possible in step 2, close to burnt, but not quite." A 4-ingredient salted butter caramel sauce to slather on everything 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z He had reminded me that I could still experience la bella vita, that I could be desired, that I could embrace something less than perfection and, most important, that I could love. Modern Love: Modern Love: Our Way of Saying Goodbye 2010-05-28T23:08:00Z In all his work he amounted to the co-author of the film, forsaking technical perfection for visual truth, beauty and conviction. Vilmos Zsigmond: the cinematographer who transformed how films look 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But it was strange: Once the show dispensed with the Russian émigrés and their tired coats, the models’ faces acquired the waxy perfection of mannequins or Rudy lookalikes. On the Runway: The Russians Are Coming (Again?) 2011-01-22T01:59:03Z Elsewhere he declaims, “All that is clear is the perfection of what we were given, the unworthiness of our response, and the certainty, in view of our current deprivation, that we are judged.” Art Review: ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live’ at Yale Art Gallery 2012-08-30T21:55:20Z Instead of taking as many good roles as he could find, he decided to apply an even more stringent standard of perfection to his work than before. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Geometric abstractions sanded down to perfection, they’re like something you’d find in nature: weathered stones on the beach or pieces of driftwood. 10 Galleries to Visit in Brooklyn and Queens 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z It doesn't actually matter because, more importantly, this disabled-led project feeds into more contemporary ideas about the quest for knowledge and perfection, most obviously Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Prometheus Awakes – review 2012-06-26T17:30:01Z Heralding the arrival of Pharaonic perfection, this creature could not be more commanding; the ruff of fur around its face is a de facto royal headdress. Art Review: ?The Dawn of Egyptian Art? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-12T22:17:19Z Only Bill Murray could match the perfection of that choice, but he's already been namechecked in a previous story of a celebrity run-in. "The Bear" hides crusts of meaning and trauma in an episode about the Feast of the Seven Fishes 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Segments are produced to near perfection and almost never overstay their welcome. OWN up to cable-TV challenge 2011-01-04T00:52:00Z So the idea with The World's End prologue is that Gary has that night stamped into him, and he needs to get back to that level of perfection. The World's End: meet Edgar Wright 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z It has all the ingredients for success; it may just need to cook a bit longer before it achieves perfection. Highly engaging low farce in 'The Heir Apparent' at ICT 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But part of it does come down to those ideals of TV documentary perfection. Mary Beard: So much for TV dumbing down 2013-07-13T08:01:02Z “I had reservations about introducing anything that would interrupt the sylvan perfection,” he said. Musical Titan Honors His Heroes 2011-08-18T17:15:27Z “So on this wonderful afternoon when all things came together it took me one cast, one fish ... to attain perfection. I did not miss another.” Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Enright’s renderings of her movies have the pitch perfection of Joyce’s parodies of literary masters in “Ulysses.” An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Taken to technical perfection—both jammers perfectly held by opposing blockers—the game becomes only a sort of organized immobility, gridlock. Broken collarbone? Just roll with it 2013-06-02T17:00:00Z But perfection has never been a relevant standard for musicals. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z “I expect perfection because my culture expects perfection,” he said. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z "People talk…" The sound on record is crystalline, the notes and silences between them, the surfaces and depths, played and engineered to perfection. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z The windows on one side of this house look out onto a Mediterranean of fiberglass yachts and a twilight blue of photo perfection. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z It’s now much more about the perfection of a really well-tailored suit, about achieving a thoroughly considered resolution, rather than pioneering the cutting edge of design. | Q&A: At the Barbican Centre, James Bond’s Stylish Progress – Q and A 2012-07-18T23:13:39Z There is always so much room for improvement and perfection. Chapbooks: ancient form of publishing enjoying renaissance 500 years on 2011-03-04T11:44:00Z Countering perfection, some handles rely on user-generated rather than commissioned photos or those from influencers who are getting free travel in return. Instagram Offers Visual Allure, and the Travel Industry Wants In 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Within fairly limited goals, the details here, including Shura’s finely shaped vocal tracks, approach something like perfection. Shura’s ‘Nothing’s Real’ Channels the 1980s 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z “For what I charge them, people expect perfection. Otherwise I have nothing else going for me. I am not a star chef. People judge me on their experience.” Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z This video captures some facets of the palace’s perfection — the way its silhouette pierces the profile of surrounding hills, the ideal proportions of its noble courtyard, the interplay of volume and decoration in its interior. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z As they get closer to perfection, however, tension starts to grow: the reason being the domineering spectre of the piano itself, still not quite ready. Pianomania: the little film that struck a major chord 2010-08-16T21:00:00Z We often glaze our first loves with the shellac of perfection. Social Q’s: Take It to the Grave 2012-09-15T00:35:24Z The performances are spooky perfection: Philip Seymour Hoffman, giving off the air of a supremely satisfied and compelling cat; Amy Adams as his more dangerous mate; Joaquin Phoenix as the feral creature they take in. Mary Pols’ Top 10 Movies of 2012 2012-12-20T14:00:34Z “It was three hours of Tarantino perfection,” Cameron Diaz said, though she admitted to having some trouble watching some of the bloodier scenes. Scene City: ‘Django Unchained’ Is Screened, as a Star Audience Gasps 2012-12-12T21:26:41Z When I pressed Smalls on what possessed him to pursue rugelach perfection, he couldn’t really say. A Search for Superior Rugelach, and the Harlem Baker Who’s Making the Best in Town 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z “There was a sense of perfection that’s not perfection,” Ms. Giberson said of the fabled Modernist resort, a place evoking a “perfect lifestyle in which you can actually keep things white.” Summer’s Color Forecast: Whiteout Conditions 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z “We are used to Amy looking polished and epitomizing perfection; this is just one of those days,” the website Red Carpet Fashion Awards pronounced. Red Carpet Watch: Amy Adams: The Red Carpet Fashion Choices of the ‘American Hustle’ Star 2014-01-24T22:56:37Z As a running gag, it was sheer perfection, and the obvious accidental nature just made it more endearing. Rosie O’Donnell Returns, With Guests in the Basement and the Bathtub 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Youthful perfection is prized in Hollywood despite the seeming canonization of older actresses like Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren and Betty White. Hollywood to Actors: No Surgery, Please 2010-04-23T21:40:00Z “Mapplethorpe always said that his goal was to achieve perfection in form, which is of course an ideal that links him to Michelangelo,” said Jérôme Neutres, the head curator of the Grand Palais retrospective. Mapplethorpe: A Sculptural Perspective 2014-04-15T13:18:50Z Sculptors never stopped depicting the serenity of gods and the perfection of youth, but they also encompassed the old and infirm, the anxious and careworn, the fretful and thoughtful. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z A less successful alteration has been made to the lovely “I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore,” performed as a solo by Chevalier to bittersweet perfection. Kennedy Center’s Broadway-bound ‘Gigi,’ starring Vanessa Hudgens, affirms its undistinguished status 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Instead, she feels real enough for anyone who is done with trying to adhere to expectations of perfection. Pamela Adlon wants you to let "Better Things" wash away the anger 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Real life can never hope to live up to cinema's dramatic perfection. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z We are locked in an arms race, but not even against each other, against myths of perfection that are never met, and so we have to hose everything with money at the last minute. Kylie Jenner's lavish party is proof: the children’s birthday bash has got out of hand 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z I vowed to start with the simplest of all: cacio e pepe, a dish said to attain perfection through the use of only three ingredients: pasta, cheese and pepper. When in Rome, Learn to Cook Italian 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z For a woman whose etiquette is not always perfection, Michelle Obama’s sense of decorum is flawless. Michelle Obama’s heckler win 2013-06-05T14:41:00Z The dancing life has obstacles aplenty, and his dancers will “need to be tough,” he writes, “and I will always demand perfection — but I mustn’t myself be the thing in their way.” Review | Mark Morris bares his soul in a refreshingly raw and inspiring memoir 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Process — unstable, imperfect — is the true movement of the universe, a vacillation between zenith and nadir rather than a steep line of gradations leading toward eventual perfection. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Le Figaro wrote that she was a fairy tale that could be believed in, for she had been “irresistible absolute perfection.” She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z After a couple of nights, however, I had to admit that Boise was just too big for perfection. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Each is hand-spun “to perfection and finished with a sweet whipped topping,” a press release shared. Burger King releases $1 mini milkshake for limited time during summer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z And not in politics, where he famously called two presidential elections nearly to perfection: He got 49 states right in 2008 and all 50 in 2012. Nate Silver blew it when he missed Trump. Now he really needs to get it right. 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The chicken leg was deep-fried perfection, and I dredged it through the chili paste on the way to my mouth. Discovering Malaysia’s national dish … in a parking lot 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The reduction of any art form to an essential core has long been equated with perfection, and the movies are no exception. Clip joint: Simplicity 2010-05-26T12:29:00Z The image is comic perfection: a portrait of the artist as an obsequious canine, embarrassingly eager to please. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z I was edified and liberated to learn that media- perpetuated images of female perfection were impossible and destructive; my female students today are “so over the body image thing.” I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z The Olsen twins’ label The Row is constantly on the hunt for perfection. Why would anyone want Dior coveralls? Never mind, just enjoy its garden-themed Paris runway show. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z I think we can't relate to perfection or perfect bodies, but we can relate to every single imperfection that we see on someone else's body. From Hitchcock to the Macarena, "Titane" director on how monstrosity and humor feed her body horror 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z “I mean, there is no way to improve upon perfection,” Paulson says. ‘Ratched’ is Sarah Paulson’s most terrifying role yet — and not for the reason you might think 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z "They are both very coachable and strive for perfection," Turner said. A Swiss oil trader, his cowgirl daughter and the rodeo art of 'cutting' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Who needs change when you already have perfection? One American’s quest to teach Italy — the motherland of espresso — how to do it better 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “You put up with all of my perfections,” she said jokingly, before pausing a moment to collect herself. When It’s Right, It’s Right 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The People’s Princess remains frozen in time: beautiful, dazzling, beloved — the kind of mythological perfection conferred by an early, tragic death. Diana and the media: She used them, and they used her. Until the day she died. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z He doesn't quite give it the full Baker Street, but the music is in the same area of airbrushed ennui and varnished perfection as Roxy Music's Avalon. New band of the day – No 1,304: Diana 2012-07-09T15:08:14Z As the character explains in repetitive voice-over, none of his conquests quite lives up to the pixellated perfection of what the web has to offer. Sundance film festival 2013: Don Jon's Addiction - first look review 2013-01-21T17:03:51Z He wanted the orchestra to embrace a more homespun, let’s-put-on-a-show attitude — quite different from its usual attempts to achieve die-cut perfection. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Nearly all his paintings are the height of Mannerist distortion and unbalanced elegance, androgynous sensuality, with an astonishingly consistent perfection of hauteur and surface. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The 23-minute span – brief in comparison to most 20th-century symphonies – encapsulates a musical journey of such concentrated perfection that I feel awed and slightly terrified when I conduct it. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z But old fans and the newly curious will want to reach for “The Lottery” and revel in its timeless gothic perfection. Book review: ‘Shirley,’ by Susan Scarf Merrell Is S. just looking for a level of perfection that doesn't exist? Motherlode Blog: Should You Leave an Unprofessional, but Loved, Day Care Center? 2012-07-13T20:03:38Z “This purity,” as Miller wrote, “this wild and naked perfection. . . .” T Magazine: Beyond the Sea 2014-03-21T16:23:22Z It’s a tiny shop packed with perfection and located on the grounds of Waverley Plantation Mansion, one of the most significant historic homes in Mississippi. A Shopper's Guide to Antique Chests 2012-10-29T05:20:13.863Z Reality never quite measures up to the unattainable perfection of the imaginary destination. In Search of Lost Me Time 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Breaking up smooth surfaces and scuffing up perfection are some of Ms. Halo’s objectives in her own work. Laurel Halo Shakes Up Her Sound After Partnering With a Humanoid Pop Star 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Not really, he says, it's all of a piece – knowing there are options, striving for perfection. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z For a band like Guns N' Roses, it's not trying to be pop perfection like Katy Perry. Guns N' Roses plan 3D concert film 2013-01-22T16:18:16Z So, she created a type of permanent costume, advertising perfection and cheery self-sufficiency. She brought kids joy with her ‘magical’ toys. And hid her own misery until it became unbearable. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z “She had a highly developed sense of imperfect perfection.” Inside Bunny Mellon’s World 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Isetts raises a significant point: There is no one-way road to coffee perfection, just as there's no universal code of ethics or behavior. What does the term "ethical coffee" actually mean? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z There’s a tension between outer perfection and the inner vulnerability that aches and bleeds along the way. Dancers suspended in time and space as you’ve never seen them before 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The peerless “Finishing the Hat,” from “Sunday,” mixes the exhilaration that comes from the quest for perfection and the painful knowledge of the selfishness and sacrifices that it requires. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “Why does every woman who’s ever onscreen have to look like a supermodel? That has shifted into something where the expectation of beauty and perfection onscreen has gotten completely out of control.” Carey Mulligan Won’t Let Hollywood Off the Hook 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z "I woke up this morning and decided I'm over Hollywood's perfection requirement," tweeted the 25-year-old. Barefaced trick: lose the lipstick, grab the spotlight 2012-07-13T22:01:21Z The best option these days is Prime 44 West, where the aged steaks are expensive beauties, and grilled to perfection. The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve its Past. 2010-08-14T04:58:00Z Mr. Opperman began his professional career playing for ballet and Broadway, but it was his relentless pursuit of musical perfection and highly personal teaching methods that drew generations of students to his studio. Kalmen Opperman, Master Clarinetist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-06-22T23:28:00Z Steel and Gardiner preach a severe counsel of perfection, one that involves teaching your native cook to rustle up fish quenelles and how to treat the bites of "mad, or even doubtful dogs". A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z For additional space, I commissioned a cabinet builder to reproduce the old style, which he did to perfection. How to find pulls for vintage cabinets 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z With a whole room devoted to his scientific pursuits, it seeks to capture the quest for knowledge and perfection of a man Delieuvin called “a universal genius.” Louvre exhibit acclaims Da Vinci, 500 years after his death 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Jascha Heifetz managed, in one evening, to extend greatly the extremes of technical perfection that a violinist was expected to attain. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z "Are they pearls of perfection or the debris of her drawers?" was Elena Seymenliyska's rather unfortunately phrased opening question in the Daily Telegraph review. Book reviews roundup 2011-07-08T21:55:24Z “We have a tailor,” reassured ours, overhearing concerns that another dress, white with cutouts in the shape of lightning bolts or sheaves of wheat, was not fitting to utter perfection. Critical Shopper: Pucci Is Relevant Again — Critical Shopper 2013-02-05T18:14:10Z But with extra definition, any blemishes leap out, a reminder that this facade of perfection really is just that: a facade. DVD & Blu-ray out this week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z Variously retro, contemporary and omnivorous in style, they depict aspects of gay history and subculture with effortless perfection and a palette of saturated pastels as complex as their narratives. Museum & Gallery Listings for May 27-June 2 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z No matter, Sabbath was never about sex appeal or perfection. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z The bloom is held up like a drumstick and has the sort of perfection a hobbyist looks for: the Fibonacci patterns bestowed by a high petal count, and a perfectly spherical shape. The autumnal annual named dahlia The Queen of Clean, who I am chatting to shortly before she sets off to do the school run, agrees that she and her peers represent a much-needed antidote to Instagram’s curated perfection. Meet the 'cleanfluencers', the online gurus who like things nice and tidy 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z In a way, this ameliorates those perfections of generational righteousness that some people took issues with, especially in early episodes where the character exemplified some of the worst millennial clichés imaginable. HBO's brutal comedy "Hacks" returns with raw, bloody candor, rising to even greater heights 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The turkey anxiety reminded us both of unpleasant past Thanksgivings with our families of origin where the meal always had to be cooked to perfection or else. The Thanksgiving this vegetarian finally gave in and cooked a turkey 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z That’s 10 years of chicks and bunies playing to perfection parts as varied as Marilyn Monroe, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., King Tut, the customers of “Nighthawks” and even themselves, hiding in plain sight. 10th Annual Peeps Diorama Contest opens! 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z For me, that means not demanding perfection of myself every hour of every single day. 10 Thoughts That Will Make You Feel Better About Your Work-Life Balance 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The programmers, it turns out, have timed the picture to perfection, dropping it into an out-of-competition slot just as the festival completes its first lap. Cannes 2013: Blood Ties - first look review 2013-05-19T18:33:36Z But this introduction to Chaplin shines whenever he performs, displaying his comic genius for doing everything wrong to absolute perfection. ‘The Real Charlie Chaplin’ Review: Not Enough Funny Business 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z On the bright side, Gwyneth thinks that striving for absolute perfection is “misguided.” The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP 2013-04-27T17:00:00Z But its atmosphere is hushed, and resonant with respect for these great forebears and the perennial desire to paint womankind to perfection. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z They are nearly identical but it is their difference, and failure of perfection, that interests me. Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It may seem corny, but a mai tai at House Without a Key in the seafront garden at the Halekulani Hotel in late afternoon is perfection. What to Do in Honolulu 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Why not admire its sublime perfection and agree to walk away? Review | Worried that ‘Barry’ can’t possibly outdo its perfect first season? Well, don’t be. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z If the classic-era actors were raw human power, the classic studios were perfection machines, fantasy factories of a ruthless industrial precision. Classic Hollywood Photos That Reveal Who Movie Stars Are 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Coltrane’s playing respects the perfection of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s composition, but he’s searching for something else. A Year in Marking the Time with Music 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The collaboration was an immediate standout, with Sampha’s vocals providing emotional elevation, but it’s his solo version — which he performed to perfection at 9:30 — that remains superior. An emotionally illuminating evening with Sampha at 9:30 Club 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It's an awakening for Kamala, whose previously assumed perfection made Devi's struggles as a child of immigrants look messy and ungrateful. "Never Have I Ever" star identifies with having to dress up in a "cringe-worthy" costume for a job 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z At a time when the Safavid rulers, descended from a Turkmen clan from Eastern Anatolia, spoke Turki among themselves, the Ottoman sultans took pride in mastering Persian to perfection and speaking it at court. Turkey Reawakening to Its Vast Iranian Ties 2010-04-23T11:35:00Z “It sounds really strange,” she said, “but I fell in love with the work, with how hard it is — the chase for perfection or the chase for growth.” A Ballerina Who Adds to the ‘Palette of What’s Possible’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement I savored the creamy aroma of my cigar, or puros, marveling at the perfection of the moment: the city lights and the rumba music wafting up from the streets. On the Cigar Trail in Cuba 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The cleanness of this image, mixed with the perfection of the bubble from the bath plug, created a flawless picture. Utilities photography competition winner 2011-03-01T08:48:21Z But this last decade has shown me that it's not perfection I'm seeking as a critic. A Times critic looks forward to a bright future backlit by a decade of brilliant theater 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Walsh, meanwhile, concedes that he had not heard Richman's song before Linehan introduced him to it, but he needed little persuading to see both its merit and its perfection for official state rock song. How my article inspired Massachusetts to make Roadrunner its state anthem 2013-02-24T14:00:01Z Heifetz touched audiences with the expressive intensity of his playing, purity of tone and almost superhuman perfection, his aristocratic elegance and authority. Jascha Heifetz's vast recorded legacy lives on 2011-06-08T13:53:00Z “Often, one of the hurdles for loving and accepting yourself is the idea of how you should be, how your life should be. But that picture of perfection resides only in your imagination,” he continues. The ‘mega monk’ who wants us to slow down and embrace our imperfections 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of gray area between Ponzi scheme and perfection. Hipsters won’t save us 2012-07-13T16:15:00Z “Initially she was this model of perfection, and sort of the blueprint when learning a standard,” Ms. Salvant said in a phone interview. The Special Place Where Ella Fitzgerald Comes Alive 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The eponymous leader of the Arkestra was a self-proclaimed celestial being who was one of the most visionary jazz musicians of the 20th century, championing individualism and expression over precision and perfection. Marshall Allen is 96 years old and still leading one of the most visionary jazz groups of all time 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z My uncle was more like a grandfather to me, and during Christmas dinner, he would play the role to perfection. Cookie-crazed dogs, blackened latkes and more of our favorite holiday food memories 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z "Stewart's personal life is a far cry from the cheery portrait of the epitome of household perfection she paints for her fans in her writings and public appearances," Oppenheimer wrote in the book's description. Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The Beatles’ naïve and aggressively experimental musicianship propelled their most fractured and divisive project into a kind of accidental perfection. The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z But the real allure of this “imperfectly perfect” style, to borrow Pat McGrath’s words, is that it frees the wearer from the tyrannical perfection of dark lipstick. | The Stained Look Comes to Lipstick 2013-08-16T13:00:25Z All three roles, but especially Dewdrop, who leads the Waltz of the Flowers, show Balanchine’s choreography to perfection. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z It was perfection, as only a meal made of corn, scooped up by more corn can be. A spicy taste of Mexican street corn, ready in 15 minutes 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z His efforts at perfection have cancelled out the image as thoroughly as Rauschenberg erased De Kooning's drawing. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z I might be careless in a way, but if I aim for something in my life, it's not perfection because that is unattainable anyway. "We are all unreliable witnesses": Stellan Skarsgård on memory and his new film "Out Stealing Horses 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z In the face of that reality, Mr. Gold finds intimations of perfection — meals, dishes, single bites that sustain his faith in Los Angeles and, by implication, in humanity. Review: Tastes of Los Angeles in ‘City of Gold’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Artist Keith McIntyre adds a touch of class with his monochrome set, a chalky blackboard with dated images of bodily perfection, from a bathing belle to a robot and an American wrestler. Raspberry 2010-04-06T20:30:00Z Whatever tension Alfred Hitchcock introduced to his movies, his heroines were icy icons of perfection. Review: Grace Kelly: A Legacy of Wholesome Elegance 2010-05-03T11:30:00Z Keep these chefs' six tips in mind as you pursue French onion soup perfection. 6 tips for the perfect French onion soup 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z We just try to get close to that perfection. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z Both tell of obsessive athletes who strive for perfection to the detriment of their physical health and mental well-being. Black Swan set to soar 2011-01-14T09:51:08Z In the morning, I transfer the rolls to the kitchen counter to warm up to room temperature while we open presents, then pop them into the oven for 20 minutes to bake into golden perfection. The trick to enjoying Christmas breakfast is to make it the day before 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Described by our very own young critics as "magical," "action-packed" and "a masterpiece of perfection," your reviews were tremendously enthusiastic about this popular read. Reviews roundup: your top reads this month! 2013-06-08T08:01:00Z Human beings have the potential to evolve and become more and more wonderful because they are aiming at that perfection. Vivienne Westwood: 'I do things that irritate people' 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Designed by Franck Desains and handblown to pouring perfection, the vessel was inspired by the art and architecture of Paris’s Left Bank. AD Loves: Mariage Frères Teapot 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Entrees start at $13.Don’t let the simple digs throw you — this is a carnivore’s paradise with local grass-fed meat grilled to perfection. Trendy Tel Aviv is a hearty foodie find 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z But I am with Druse on this: The shade garden, done well, is not just an equal of the sun garden, it is the greater perfection. The serenity of a shade garden 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The movie’s about how that perfect moment is never going to come — if you wait for perfection, you’re going to be waiting for the rest of your life. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z If William Blake, his contemporary, saw the portrait as a fawning genre that reduced British art to idiocy, the fact is that it was raised to almost Mozartian perfections by 18th-century British painters. Thomas Lawrence exhibition shows royals need to have the common touch 2010-11-24T14:31:00Z What she regards as her physical flaws — small breasts, broad shoulders, wide hips — he sees as signs of perfection. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Faced with one version of physical perfection, there is something brilliantly heroic about ignoring it entirely in favour of making frantically disparaging comments about kitchen hygiene. Ooh, have you seen the state of Kim Kardashian’s kitchen? 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z On this project, he added, “There’s some attention to detail, a little bit of the quest for perfection.” An Artist Who Appropriates With a Wink 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The gown was fitted to perfection, and her sleek ponytail was the right accompaniment. SAG Awards 2015: The duds, thuds and wows on the red carpet 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z What she does is show, plainly and gracefully, how the pursuit of such perfection can be monstrous. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z “I grew up falling, getting back up and doing things a million times until perfection.” A Feel-Good Lip Balm Created in Her Dorm 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Before that, artists drew primarily on long-standing early Christian and Byzantine traditions that represented Mary as regal and formal, sealed up in her glory and perfection. ‘Picturing Mary’: Filled with highlights but flawed in its omissions Each work must achieve visual and conceptual perfection. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z “We’re constantly flooded with photos of ‘perfection’ on social media and see advertisements about ways to change your body to fit a certain idealized body trend.” Body-positivity blogger exposes the reality behind the 'perfect' Instagram photo 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The organizing process is not about perfection; it’s about consistently keeping your home in order, so you can relax and enjoy it. Perspective | Confession from an organizer: My home isn’t picture-perfect 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z “We liked the idea of everything else being kind of technical, like a lab, with a level of perfection to it,” he says. Is Nike’s Private Fitness Center the World’s Most Beautiful Gym? 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The mass games — propaganda spectacles that feature thousands of gymnasts, dancers and flip card-holding spectators moving in coordinated perfection — were once routine in North Korea. Travel agencies say N. Korea planning to suspend mass games 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z But in that moment, drinking from a razor-thin-lipped glass as minuscule bubbles carried whisky flavors and Waits sang his raspy yet ethereal dirges, perfection seemed tangible. In the watering holes of Tokyo, the highball reigns supreme 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Within its 41 minutes, a relatively economical runtime in a series that loses points due to the length of its episodes, we're drawn through a window of existence into a world of premium catalog perfection. Imagine if you will a white liberal Karen has entered "The Twilight Zone" for its best episode yet 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Minutes it takes the Baked Apple Pancake at Atrium Pancakes to cook to down-to-the-core perfection. The Smokies - Top Destination for Pancakes 2012-02-27T18:20:02.253Z “Listen @noname I don’t mean to rush perfection but it’s getting late . . .” one read. You will miss her when she’s gone: Noname soars live 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z When I catch a glimpse of myself, I think: “Whoa, you look like hell,” as I am now engulfed by the relentlessly firm, smooth, glossy-haired perfection of my girls. Motherlode Blog: The Half-Life of the Divorced Parent 2013-07-25T13:56:44Z Walter Benjamin wrote that a truly great sentence is one that’s been burnished to perfection, then sabotaged in some respect. Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The vocal performances on tracks like “What Is This Voice” and “Don’t Put Me in Red” are deliciously fragile and imperfect, which Rubinos found refreshing after years of striving for perfection. How Xenia Rubinos Freed Herself on a New Album, ‘Una Rosa’ 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It serves the vegetarians at your table as readily as the sausage lovers; those who are keen on oysters and those who hope you won’t mess with their version of perfection. From a family spat, a flexible Thanksgiving stuffing is born 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The distance between my failure of a body and perfection stretched away beyond the horizon. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z These Proustian idylls are often sexual in nature: “I eyed her firm backside, formed to perfection, and a kind of abyss opened inside me.” Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Wheatley develops all these tropes to melodramatic, sensationalist perfection. Review | The best horror novel since ‘Dracula’ and other scary reads for Halloween 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s the natural outcome of seeking perfection for perfection’s own shallow sake. #JusticeForFlint’s radical love: While Oscar’s glamour beckoned, the real artists helped Flint be seen and heard 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “The arhats mediate a wish for the divine, a dream of perfection with a reality of pain and loss, of work needing to be done, of lives and livelihoods in need of rebuilding,” he said. Dragons, Saints and a Sexy Nurse: The Art of Takashi Murakami 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It's awesome and uncomfortable: the fascinating product of the human will to power and perfection. Artist of the week 118: Salla Tykk? 2010-12-22T15:30:37Z La Coruña is a quiet place, typically European in its humdrum perfection: tidy highways and compact cars, clean taxis, no need to worry about tipping. How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer 2012-11-09T19:30:40Z Tightly wound gardens—all straight lines and assiduous manicuring—can be a thing of beauty, but adding a note or two of uncontrolled madness gives perfection a dash of panache. The Beauty of a Trumpet Vine 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Collecting is also a form of seeing, and Mr. Buatta had a hungry eye, along with a drive for perfection he said came from his father’s lack of approval. The Death of Chintz 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Whittling down my favorites to a mere Top Ten was an insurmountable challenge—and there were still so many I didn’t get to, all of them floating in that literary quantum state of potential perfection. The Best Cookbooks of 2019 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In the ad, an Orwellian ‘Big Sister’ tells a line of young girls dressed in pink dresses and heels, “You are beauty, and beauty is perfection.” New GoldieBlox video rebels against 'Big Sister' beauty standards 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z My attempt at perfection unraveled a few days later. The patient I couldn’t heal 2012-11-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the plots were built on alchemical themes of dissolution, purification, illumination and perfection, themes shared with Milton, Blake, C.S. Religion: Final gasp of the 'Harry Potter' wars? 2011-07-18T16:00:06Z The comedy of male immaturity reached its peak a little more than a decade ago, when “Step Brothers” brought the genre to obnoxious perfection. ‘The Climb’ Review: The Dudes Abide 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Four months later, she was stunned when her homemade cheesecake emerged from the device, baked to perfection in 20 minutes with no cracks or dips. How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way Into America’s Heart 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The boxes in the book range in condition from gleaming perfection to ones that seem to have gone to war. Celebrating the Stereos of the Street 2010-10-15T15:45:00Z Darting, ducking and leaping, they seemed to be flying — an extraordinary physical feat and choreographed to perfection. Dance Review: The Dances of Africa, as Filtered Through the Americas 2011-05-29T21:58:56Z “There is nothing on earth that approaches those two perfections, ‘The Magic Flute’ and the Bible,” he once declared. A Chagall Curtain Needs a New Home With a Tall Ceiling 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z The horrors of the Civil War had shattered the peaceful vision social reformers had promulgated earlier in the century of humanity’s perfection through right living and self-control. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z And to be fair, you kind of got to talk about the mess because you can't just always present this idea of perfection. Gabrielle Union on why women can stop chasing after balance: It's "fictitious BS that doesn't exist" 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z It looks more like the difference between Leonardo bringing something to perfection, and Leonardo leaving those palm leaves to complete later. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z “We seek perfection, but we will never achieve it,” he says. Review | If you think fine dining is on pause, Imperfecto would beg to differ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z It's an even better idea when it’s smoked to perfection and perfectly seasoned with paprika, granulated garlic, onion powder, and more. This smoked Mississippi pot roast is perfect for a chilly evening 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z She became troubled by the ways she “suppressed, omitted, falsified even, certain disturbing elements, to gain that perfection of order” in her early work. ‘Essential Essays’ Show Adrienne Rich’s Vulnerable, Conflicted Sides 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The dreamer dreaming that she’s asleep in her own bed when she is in fact asleep in her own bed — there’s a sort of perfection to that nightmare and it was very disturbing. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z In just 25 seconds, the preview manages to show off the extent of Pixar’s animation prowess: from the definition in the birds’ feathers to hyper-real bubbles in the sand, the little film is photorealistic perfection. Meet 'Piper,' Pixar's Newest (and Cutest) Character 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z “I’m terrified, and I’m terribly excited,” said Mr. Wilson, adding that as both a curator and choreographer, he’s not seeking perfection. Take Me to Church and Let Me Dance 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The perfection of the form was startling against the wilds of the surrounding greenery. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z David Hyde Pierce's Niles is a piece of precision engineering – physical and verbal comedy played to equal perfection and hitting their marks every time. Frasier 2010-08-10T07:30:00Z The rough-hewn gothic was to be preferred every time over the chilly perfection of the renaissance. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z Whether you were sitting next to Chris Martin at the awards or just popping open a beer at home, Diddy’s suggestion that “Everybody just keep drinking; it’ll be over soon” was perfection. The best moments of the Golden Globes 2014-01-13T13:30:00Z Lots of praise has been devoted to Koons’s desire for material perfection, as well as his use of kitsch objects, in the pursuit of flawless beauty. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z Kimball’s success and his faith in empirical perfection tend to provoke asperity from competitors. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z Sung and acted to perfection by mezzo-soprano Patricia Bardon, Mary Magdalene is portrayed as seductive and self-destructive, to the point of being suicidal because she wants to "sleep like a happy woman sleeps". Adams, Sellars bring 'Passion' into present in opera's first full staging 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Would you expect anything less than pint perfection from Germany’s second busiest airport? These Are the World's Best Airports 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The bigger message was that of a young woman taking on the twin powers of Photoshopped perfection – Hollywood and fashion – with the stealth force of her dress-down Friday look. Barefaced trick: lose the lipstick, grab the spotlight 2012-07-13T22:01:21Z Pretty much everyone is close to perfection here. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility …! Film review: The Last Song 2010-04-29T22:00:00Z Together we watched these best friends discover time and again that there is no such thing as a universal standard for perfection. Bidding farewell to "Grace and Frankie": "We wanted people to cry at least at one point" 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Even on the rare occasion that we executed the food to perfection, the guests wouldn't ask for seconds. How I learned to break the rules of hosting a Dawat 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z But a sense of ritual comes from consistency and expectation, not magazine-worthy perfection. Perspective | Taking back the family dinner: How we created a mealtime renaissance 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z "There's a certain feeling that we get when we play - this is perfection. This is just perfect." Prince to charge $10 for live shows 2014-02-05T09:51:23Z In his Preface to the Reader from P Rossiter's 1601 Book of Ayres, he declared "What epigrams are in poetry, the same are airs in music, then in their chief perfection when they were short." Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z They give Clark someone to feel superior to as he struggles in his quest for holiday perfection under his in-laws’ withering judgment. Sympathy for Todd and Margo: Clark Griswold’s childless yuppie scum neighbors are holiday heroes 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps it was the pressure, but they seemed tense and disconnected — especially Ms. Melnik — and as they strived for perfection of line, they seemed to lose the art of actual dancing. Review: Hungarian National Ballet Opens With a Stale ‘Swan Lake’ 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Now, vestiges of that approach remain, especially on opening track “Automatic Systematic Habit,” welded together with the machine-like perfection of a Katy Perry juggernaut. Album review: Garbage, 'Not Your Kind of People' 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z The hens and roosters in this documentary are pampered royalty, and their caretakers find fulfillment in the pursuit of perfection. Review: ‘Chicken People,’ Pampering Royalty That Clucks 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “Whatever turmoil she may have felt, however exhausted she may have been, she insisted on being very much the representation of perfection, and she never allowed herself to drop that facade.” Jackie Kennedy: The First Instagram First Lady 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The standard for couture, after all, is perfection. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z “With this collection, I wanted to show that side of a woman that isn’t afraid to step outside of her comfort zone because she knows that imperfection is the new perfection.” Luxury meets grunge at Versace Milan Fashion Week show 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z "He was almost like a Japanese calligrapher in his desire for perfection," Sylvia Reed said. SXSW: Achieving 'cult artist' status 2014-03-13T21:05:00Z In “Sacred Spaces,” James Pallister has captured their enduring aspirations — and their fleeting perfection. Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z You want to sort of fool people: you want them to see as perfect what you in your heart know is a betrayal of all perfection. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z This may not be the most precise strategy of cultural critique, but Mac isn't after perfection, as judy periodically explained. Taylor Mac offers a glorious sneak peek of his '24-Decade History of Popular Music' at Royce Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Coiled to perfection in a manner reminiscent of Wallis Simpson, it lends authority to Queen Elizabeth, Ms. Gwynne’s steely character, and provides the production with a moment of chic. On the Runway Blog: Forties Hair Returns 2012-01-23T12:00:24Z And what you're supposed to do is spend your whole life wasting money trying to buy this idea of perfection that doesn't exist. Lindy West reclaims the "witch hunt": On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they're victims 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z It redefined for him what was possible in ridding dance of its intimidation factor, pivoting it away from perfection and helping his followers find the joy. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The chromatic density of Bartók’s work, he explains, demands perfection in performance. Violinist James Ehnes and SSO to join forces on Bartók 2014-03-06T20:16:36Z Western classical and medieval Christian art seem bent on arresting time, freezing it at a perceived moment of physical perfection or spiritual resolution. Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Still, the burden of physical perfection continues to fall unevenly on women. Motherlode Blog: Not Worried About a Little Baby Fat 2013-05-22T13:34:14Z There is no cute disheveled look in Seoul: “Korean people want perfection,” Ms. Cho said. A Look at Korea’s Culture From the Bathhouse 2014-02-07T19:35:43Z The singing is juxtaposed with blistering dance interludes that the Arts Florissants instrumentalists play with an edge of savagery, constantly showing how close the perfection of order comes to chaos. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z Her ambitions sharpened as her ear tuned to Beckett’s Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, his tortured but exact syntax, the sonic perfection of his prose as it sought the comic depths of human suffering. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z "But we're still very far from perfection ... let's show the world what we are, and not what some want to show or what others wish we looked like." Brazilian artist's image of starving child kicks up a World Cup storm 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Is it the disfigured, repulsive Creature or Frankenstein himself with his subordination of love and friendship to the idea of creative perfection? Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z Because she said, “The quest for perfection can leave the individual gasping for breath at every turn.” Kate’s middle is in royal pain 2012-12-04T20:59:00Z Despite being almost destroyed during its development, with a clone by a rival developer released months earlier, Ridiculous Fishing is a work of perfection. Ridiculous Fishing: A Tale Of Redemption – review 2013-04-20T05:00:17Z I don’t aim for perfection when creating pieces like this, but rather for a real sense of movement and energy. Malika Favre’s “Sweeping into Fall” 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Calamari, grilled to perfection and perfectly tender, conjured memories of the Amalfi Coast. Bites: Restaurant Review: Tuna in Rome 2010-07-08T18:00:00Z There’s a point on the third or fourth visit when the perfection and elegance of the “Holy City’s” streetscapes, its meticulously restored and uniformly classical houses, begin to close in on your brain’s right hemisphere. In Charleston, Beer Gets Its Own Neighborhood 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z “It’s important to remind people that perfection doesn’t exist,” she said. Fitness influencer claps back at commenter who tried body-shaming her about her breasts: 'Perfection doesn't exist' 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z That shiny happy vegan perfection has prompted a few jabs. Vegans Go Glam 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z It's by these efforts that society should be judged; not some mythical state of perfection. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z For Daft Punk there is a subtle but crucial distinction between perfection pursued through human effort and the perfection easily achieved through digital means. Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z Munro has calibrated to perfection the intimate distance that exists between writer and reader. Dear Life by Alice Munro – review 2012-11-08T08:01:01Z Sumac was the imperious, raven-haired Inca princess — “descendant of the last of the Incan kings,” according to lore — who maintained an extensive wardrobe stocked with sumptuous gowns, her crimson lipstick always applied to perfection. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The first several decades of the 20th century are considered a golden era by many piano buffs, a time when artistic imagination and musical richness were valued more than technical perfection. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z “He combines form and concept to perfection, using the familiarity of children’s school desks and wood carving to engage the public.” Art: Southeast Asian Artists Look to the Present 2011-04-27T12:30:05Z I think that perfection is found by authentically being in the present moment, rather than as an outcome of enlightenment. Marijuana and Yoga Pairing Up in Classes 2012-12-05T17:57:21Z When did perfection, or the illusion of such, become mandatory? The problem with sanctimonious environmentalists: their boring absolutism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The description of Rathmoye and its inhabitants is relayed to utter perfection. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Dinner at the Lost Kitchen is an occasion, and most restaurants of its caliber work to maintain an illusion of effortless perfection. How Erin French Made a Tiny Maine Town a Dining Destination 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Without disputing the importance of getting things right, may I nonetheless gently demur from this implied goal of artistic perfection? A master class in writing from John McPhee 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Watch: PBS illustrates David Foster Wallace discussing the perils of perfection, in an interview from 1996. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z As a living legend, the very model of moral perfection and feminine wisdom, she enjoys a special position of extraordinary power — and she knows just how precarious that is. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Nobody argues that these musicals are masterpieces, but these two exuberant, more-is-more spectaculars are timeless perfection. No Tony Awards Show? Make Your Own With These Great Moments 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z They also admire the effort that winemakers put into their craft in pursuit of perfection. How brands turn customers into devoted followers 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z But even allowing for roommate style differences, I suspect a lot of us recognize Stacy: someone trained to believe the only way to be strong, respected and liked is to maintain a veneer of perfection. Carolyn Hax: Wanting to break free from defensive and controlling roommate Yet the setting did chime with Planel's point about how our desire for visual perfection results in so much unnecessary food waste; as an exercise in awareness-raising it was a success. My dinner inside Ibsen's Doll's House 2011-07-12T08:58:33Z “All This and The Godfather Too,” arguably one of the best pieces in the collection, showcases this bygone style to perfection. Review | The resurgence of Eve Babitz continues with ‘I Used to Be Charming’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z She seems less real in the flesh than onscreen, not least because of an excess of perfection in the careless ease of her existence. We Need to Talk about Tilda Swinton 2011-12-08T15:14:32Z It's shocking to hear what was going on behind the facade of pop perfection, either covered up at the time with a line about "suffering from glandular fever" or lost between the tabloid cracks. The Big Reunion: from broken dreams to reality stars 2013-02-26T15:46:23Z Photograph: Image Source Plus/ Alamy Writer and TV presenter Emma Woolf's The Ministry of Thin is about "how the modern obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty and perfection got out of control". The Ministry of Thin by Emma Woolf – review 2013-06-01T14:45:03Z Mark Padmore and pianist Andrew West matched the oscillations of text and music to perfection. Gloriana; 66th Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-22T23:05:50Z The demand for perfection never ends — leaving no room for mistakes, either onstage or off. K-pop band TWICE reveals its daring side on new album 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Nor does science indicate that there is much perfection in men and women despite the fact that the Good Book would have us believe we were created in the image of the Lord. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-05-04T13:00:01Z In its formal perfection, its reiteration of hierarchical order and its grand theme of good versus evil, “Sleeping Beauty” represents the summit of balletic classicism. Ballet Review: Ballet Stands on Ceremony 2013-12-10T16:26:42Z There is something about the precious capsule of perfection that the short story has been in our literary culture that I am really challenged and excited by. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The perfection, by her own estimation, lasted 20 years. Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z “The idea of perfection in a poem is pretty stupid,” she said. Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z And yet, the bigger message parents receive from these same social media channels is perfection. The ugly, exhausting reality of parenting, and why we hide it from our children 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Covered with bacon and smeared with dripping, they will roast to rose-tinted perfection in 25 minutes at 230C/gas mark 9. Nigel Slater: ‘I love the crackle of winter’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z An astute analyst of directing technique, Mr. Bogdanovich sometimes falls back on hollow critic-speak, enthusing over the perfection and brilliance of gags that speak just fine for themselves. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z A holiday meal is supposed to be about coming together, not about perfection. "Mrs. Maisel" and lessons from the kids' table 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Two more galleries devoted to landscapes since 2000 would have been perfection. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z But I am a firm believer in the magic, ease, and perfection of that little blue box. Shannon Sarna refers to herself as a pizza bagel 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z “We’re hoping to subvert a culture that promotes a standard of perfection that most of us can never attain.” Losing Their Clothes, Finding Themselves 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z He considers himself, like Avi, to be on a never-ending quest for perfection. The path to rice perfection begins when you start paying attention 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z I’m just warning you not to beat yourself up if you fall short of perfection. Jon Stewart outgrew “The Daily Show”: Why his leaving is a good thing 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “Sometimes my frustration with opera is that all spontaneity dies in pursuit of perfection,” he said. A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage … 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z “No one can live up to the expectation of perfection.” How Honest Can Demi Lovato Be? 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Having put these two works together for his first half, Ohlsson delineated all of their varied moods to perfection, with all of his familiar mastery of touch and phrasing. Familiar mastery from Garrick Ohlsson 2014-01-16T19:07:12Z We learn that she has an unhealthy attachment to perfection and is stuck in a narrative reinforced by her day job. ‘Love Hard’ Review: Seeking Connection, Not Perfection 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Deftly poignant and meaningful, as close to perfection as possible. Bicep's favourite tracks 2013-03-29T18:00:00Z She’s quite open about being a real, flawed person and not a guru who has attained perfection. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Crawford helped set a standard of beauty, desirability and unattainable perfection that her middle-aged self now suffers from in comparison. Lonnae O’Neal: What should happen after the Cindy Crawford photo leak 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z With sculpting perfection a must, O’er every last detail Anne fussed. Style Invitational Week 1296: A, we’re adorbs — a poetry contest 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z However, bloggers and Instagram stars are using manipulation software and filters to edit the photos they share and they are very carefully curated to create the illusion of perfection. From social media to the catwalk, is fantasy beauty failing young women? 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z These dancers will disappoint if you want perfection of form. Dance Review: A. O. Collective?s ?90 Ways to Wake From Drowning? 2010-08-01T22:25:00Z Ms. Mackey’s pure, radiant soprano delights the ear, and she infuses Mary with a touching sincerity that helps make convincing the rather unnatural moral perfection of her character. Review: ‘Amazing Grace,’ the Story of a Slave Trader’s Moral Awakening 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The reluctant bride who sang the showstopping “Getting Married Today” has here been blissfully reconceived as reluctant gay groom, played to agitated perfection by Jonathan Bailey. In Revelatory Revivals, Women Sing Through the Pain 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In turn, it’s less a collaboration and more a tutoring session on how new tricks can sharpen old perfection. David Bryne & St. Vincent Go Big with Love This Giant 2012-09-11T17:00:26Z Wandering through their elegant but very quiet home, Becca goes through the motions of domestic perfection: gardening, baking, wearing her prettiest pastels, trying to keep busy. 'Rabbit Hole': Going down a well of grief with an excellent cast 2010-12-23T21:26:05Z “That instrument is just unsurpassable. That little vocal box and all that stuff comes out — it’s just, to me, it’s some kind of its own perfection,” she says. Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Still, Madchester's biggest band don't get by on sentiment, unleashing a cascade of jangly perfection and blowing classics such as I Am the Resurrection, Love Spreads and She Bangs the Drum to prog-like proportions. The V festival, day one – review 2012-08-19T13:15:31Z Paul declared it to be “90-odd percent there” in terms of perfection, however Prue lingered over her slice for a moment before declaring that she wished she had made it. Prue, proofs and #PizzaGate: Bread week comes to "Bake Off" 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z The maestro seeks as much perfection in composing at his scent organ as he does at conducting his orchestra.” The Met Conductor Fabio Luisi Seduced by Creating his Own Perfumes 2014-03-06T00:46:01Z As Oscar Wilde believed, pain is the path to perfection; and nearly five decades on from the day of their wedding, Maté says his marriage is better than ever. How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In my view, the biggest aspect of K-pop’s appeal is the group members’ relentless pursuit of perfection. How Korean boy band BTS toppled Asian stereotypes — and took America by storm 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “I woke up this morning and decided I’m over Hollywood’s perfection requirement,” Ms. McCord wrote in a Twitter message accompanying the photo. Noted: Female Celebrities Are Shedding Their Makeup 2012-07-25T19:10:57Z The reason is because all three of them use a certain kind of vulnerability in making their work where they're more interested in the story than they are interested in musical perfection or polish. For Taylor Mac, the stage show is just part of the fight for the LGBT community 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z There are a handful of smart would-be singles: “Fool’s Gold” and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go” are seamless pop perfection, and “Girl Almighty” sounds like a pretty decent modern-day Monkees song, but it’s an outlier. One Direction made it to ‘Four,’ which is more of a feat than ‘Four’ itself “When we embarked on this together, he was after nothing but perfection.” Alexander Skarsgard’s Viking Dream 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The theme is longing for perfection, Nevins writes in a gallery note. Review | In the galleries: Transfer lettering becomes a medium with a message 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s hard to think of “Doc” working without her performance, which is perfection from the flip in her steel-helmet wig on down. When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z “I would say I’m an American,” the native New Yorker says, in an accent he Anglicized to posh perfection as a student at Dublin’s Trinity College. T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z So perhaps the largest question is: Will his Moscow endeavors reduce rather than enhance his perfection? David Hallberg’s Dancing Develops Via Russia 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z And this first-rate Taper production — the last scene on a luxury train headed to Sarajevo is perfection — does this intrepid playwright proud. Rajiv Joseph's 'Archduke' at the Taper is an ambitious mix of history, comedy and tragedy 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z His fear is all the greater not only because he believes in perfection, but also because he thinks he has experienced it. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z In Equity, Anna Gunn embodies a ruthless senior investment banker who bears no resemblance to Skyler White, the long-suffering matriarch she played to perfection on five seasons of Breaking Bad. Oscars 2017: 11 female performances too good to be overlooked 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The carver and his assistants found the suitable wood planks, seasoned them, glued them together, and chiseled the figure to perfection without the help of sandpaper. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Framed, pinned and separated by four merciless individual lenses, the performers are close to perfection. Review: Same Apple Family, New Kind of Theater 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Everything was so perfect – the scintillating conversation, the delicious food, the excellent wine, and all miraculously brought together to perfection by the finest hostess in the country! Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z So is his mustache, trimmed to triangular perfection. The New ‘American Idol’: Youth Gone Wild and an Understanding Dad 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z His performance is far more profound than the staging, because the singing is painfully human and the idea is the sort of thing that seems far better in the perfection of a writer’s mind. 'The Leftovers' Season Finale Denied Us Answers, and It Felt Great 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z But when the goal is perfection, you'll always feel like a failure. Gabrielle Union on why women can stop chasing after balance: It's "fictitious BS that doesn't exist" 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z It is good to show that getting through this is not about perfection or constant positivity; it is about rupture and repair, rupture and repair. Perspective | My husband’s at home with 3 boys, and coronavirus cabin fever is setting in. How can I help? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z And so begins the modern mother's journey: a relentless quest for respectability, seemliness, conformity and one-dimensional perfection. Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z Not despite the fact that these were flawed people uninterested in perfection, but because of it. What’s the Deal With Adulthood? 25 Years Later, ‘Seinfeld’ Feels Revelatory. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z When this film first came out, you talked about how movies usually create an overall dysmorphia for viewers based on this idea of human perfection. "It would change our politics": Emilio Estevez on why we should all take a pilgrimage 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Where the painter had learned that technique, mastered to perfection, eludes us. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z But perfection is only one of the kinds of merit that musical performance can have. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Lane's prose gets at how these women's perfections and imperfections mark them. Two women's lives dangerously collide in Harriet Lane's 'Her' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Made with a handful of readily available ingredients, you can finish this casserole off in the broiler so the breadcrumbs cook to golden brown perfection. This spinach-Parmesan casserole will be on your Christmas table in 20 minutes 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The gracious and witty Alan Selka, who has been with Evans for many years, occupies a room that is crammed to Victorian perfection with his favorite things, which include an old-fashioned Victrola. | At Home With Robert Evans 2010-10-27T12:30:00Z It is as if nature possesses a kind of perfection that is guiding us in our pursuit of the rules of the game. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z While searching for models, one attracted me above all: the miraculous sequence of Mozart concertos, which lifted the then-novel form to a degree of unmatched perfection. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z It is in this quest for their own culturally specific version of perfection and adulation that nearly every woman I’ve met, no matter their differences, is united. Lena Dunham: ‘Caroline Flack’s death hit me with a sickening power’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The tastelessness of his jumbled thrill ride lacks precisely the purity, the simplicity, the stillness in motion and the infinitesimal perfection of Petit’s walk. “The Walk” Falls Short of Artistry 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Often stumbling and bumbling on-screen as The Tramp, Chaplin’s movements were actually precise and rehearsed to perfection. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z To Persian eyes, Indian art, and especially Mughal art, was too ripe and rounded, too bright and colourful, and lacked the classicism, restraint and geometric perfection of Saffavid painting. Art treasures of the Mughal empire 2012-11-30T22:55:14Z Regan’s own cooking, throughout the book, is given less resonance, less inherent perfection; to Regan, it seems, what she makes now is just a stage-lit version of the things she learned at her parents’ sides. “Burn the Place” Is a Thrilling, Disquieting Memoir of Addiction and Coming of Age 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But unlike some other dramas arising from the same milieu — “Angels in America,” “The Baltimore Waltz,” “The Normal Heart,” to name three — “Marvin’s Room” may suffer from such perfection. Review: In ‘Marvin’s Room,’ Who Will Care for the Caregiver? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But her fall from a false ideal of perfection is nevertheless likely to be a genuinely flamenco dive into the soul. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z After watching Madison Beer, a singer and influencer, sculpt her eyebrows to fluffy perfection in a makeup tutorial online, Ashley Gross, 26, wanted to try it. Wait, How Does Everyone Have Bushy Eyebrows? 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Untied, the tenderloin tapers at one end, which means either the thinner side or the thicker side — but not both — can be cooked to pink perfection. Putting the Tender in Pork Tenderloin 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Each method is different, but all promise the same outcome: perfection. This one simple trick can help you grill the perfect corn 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z We are all, it seems, born to the stage, and we are performing the role of museumgoers to perfection. Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z Played to perfection by Tom Hollander, with a sympathetic vulnerability as well as an occasional steeliness, both Smallbone and the show as a whole are winning and highly plausible. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z Both minimalism and cottagecore are wholly unrealistic depictions of life: so filtered by perfection that they’re not possible to reproduce in real life. Escape Into Cottagecore, Calming Ethos for Our Febrile Moment 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z It’s also moving because it’s still rough and hasn’t yet been worked over to be smooth and seamless, sterile in its perfection. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z With the advent of war her acute ability to poke fun achieves a kind of perfection. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z And on the obligatory version of “Mack,” there’s another moment of imperfect perfection that’s almost too good to be true. The Special Place Where Ella Fitzgerald Comes Alive 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Just add a little butter, cream, and plate up your potato-y perfection. The best heavy cream substitutes for cooking and baking 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Even Knight Frank’s color brochure on the property admits La Pausa does not mean perfection. | The House That Coco Built 2013-06-07T16:21:12Z Domenichino is famous for his dedicated emulation of the perfection of Raphael and of antique statues – in other words, his classicism. The scarlet intensity of Domenichino's Saint John 2010-05-18T11:05:00Z Between the dialogue, Strong's devastating and impassioned delivery, and Mark Mylod's intimate framing, it is near perfection. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Woolf studies the morality we attach to food choices, the influence of affluence, what I'd term the fiction of perfection that permeates the average female life. The Ministry of Thin by Emma Woolf – review 2013-06-01T14:45:03Z The opening line alone — “In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection” — unfurls an entire universe of possibilities in just eight words. Perspective | If a human being was capable of feeling it, David Berman could write it and render it profound 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z She was the one I referenced when talking about the foreign perfection I’d never in my life hope to achieve. There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Mother 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Catherine Lacey: Love; debt; emotional debts between those who love or have loved each other; certainty and uncertainty; perfection. Salon’s author questionnaire: 7 things you didn’t know about 5 writers 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Which is to say that buying locally and/or seasonally is not a guarantee of produce perfection. What to do when "good" ingredients are bad: put up a stink! 2010-04-13T16:53:00Z If we learn anything from this exhibition, it should be to expect less perfection in galleries. National Gallery's forgeries are the real deal 2010-07-01T14:45:00Z Our celebrity award givers, Joseph Mawle and the delicate porcelain perfection that is young starlet Holliday Grainger, stood next to us. Oscars 2012: Nominees' diary 2012-02-20T10:40:23Z Fast, furious, raging perfection in bleeding hands, broken sticks, broken relationships, broken lives. 'Whiplash,' exquisite and painful, hits all the right notes 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Join in, and imagine the countless peasant backs that bent so many centuries ago to set these ancient, weathered stones into simple perfection. Tuscany for beginners: a guide to the best sun-soaked hill towns 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Affairs, kidnappings, husbands that can’t be trusted, lies that must be uncovered and a search for perfection, often inspired by true events – this is what this genre occupied itself with. With A Deadly Adoption, has Lifetime finally become self-aware? 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, Sam’s house is a claustrophobic swirl of incessant emotional needs; if it’s not an overblown crisis with one of the kids, it’s Phyllis’s gradual decline into dementia, which Imrie plays with puzzled perfection. Perspective | These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Buatta was mischievous, and he liked to poke fun at the affectations of the world he inhabited, but he was serious about his work and relentless in his pursuit of perfection there. The Death of Chintz 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The sunny perfection of family comedies always skates just this side of terror. ‘WandaVision’ Lives Inside TV. Just Like We Do. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Some listeners I know heard in the Berg little more than technical perfection, judging its work admirable but sterile. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z “For me, the constant search for perfection and self-actualization that you have as a dancer became self-indulgent,” he said. Man of Medicine, Dance and Film: 3 Dimensions of Pontus Lidberg 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Something I've recently recognized about myself is that I chase perfection in inconsequential things as a way to assert a level of control in my life that I didn't necessarily have growing up. Finding God in a $30 box of cake mix 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Very few films attempt — much less achieve — that kind of tragic perfection. Cross Cuts: The Hard Work in ‘Before Midnight,’ Amour’ and Other Films and Shows 2013-06-19T15:15:49Z I was consciously letting go of some of the perfection to take the risk of having something new happen which the audience might not like — like when I don't talk and am silent. "Corsage" star Vicky Krieps says Austria's Empress Elisabeth had a "darkness that attracted me" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z When people accuse the government of being "farcical", they mean they are not doing their jobs properly; but on stage, says Foley, chaos and misunderstanding can only result from professional perfection. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z Throughout her weight loss journey, Osland said her motto has been simple: "I focus on progress, not perfection." Woman loses 130 pounds by 'habit stacking': 'Focus on progress, not perfection' 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Referring to artistic styles, he said, “It was California perfection against New York messiness.” Craig Kauffman, Sculptor in Plastic, Dies at 78 2010-05-15T04:10:00Z Yet the search for perfection often leads to just the opposite. T Magazine: The Peel Sessions 2012-10-16T13:00:47Z Williams called the performance “perfection because of the incredible depth of soul you have in your voice and your personality” and compared Nichole’s voice to an electric guitar. 'The Voice' recap: Teams Adam and Christina take their turn 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Kat is hard, detached from her feelings, obsessed with perfection and almost pathologically opposed to surrender. Movies the Oscars Will Overlook, but Shouldn’t 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Starring the perfection that is Allison Tolman, "Downward Dog" follows the adventures of a Pittsburgh woman juggling career and romance — as seen through the eyes of her adoring, vacuum-cleaner-averse canine Martin. Comfort food for your eyes: Here are 7 easily bingeable sitcoms you haven't seen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “Women are pressured to look a certain way because of society’s narrow perception of beauty and perfection, and they’re often scrutinized for not conforming to them,” she said in an interview. Makeup-free Miss England finalist defies ‘unrealistic beauty standards’ 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z What still amazes is how such hitherto lowbrow laughs are elevated to almost graceful perfection. There's Something About Mary: No 17 2010-10-18T10:37:00Z And so, like Athena, into battle she went — the battle, that is, waged incessantly against age, and flesh, and “bulges,” and any other perceived deviation from bodily perfection. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z And so we reunite with an ACN newsroom in which the news, both national and internal, is taken seriously and every player granted a level of professionalism, though not, mercifully, personal perfection. Credit's due when the final credits roll on 'The Newsroom' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Because of these blemishes, “The Collector of Lives” lacks anything approaching Raphael-like perfection. For the juiciest gossip on Renaissance artists, listen to Giorgio Vasari 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Levine doesn’t hide aging and decay, yet her work is a vision of perfection. Review | In the galleries: Exploring how body language is a visual form of communication 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Is it the persistent illusion of perfection that so infuriates me these days? Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z He is very much a servant of the music, so when he’s demanding on the stage, he inspires the musicians to want the exact same level of perfection that he’s striving for. ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But, experts believe our new interest in the diastema represents a backlash against unattainable beauty standards and an obsession with perfection. Gaptoothed women are in vogue 2010-10-18T18:57:00Z Seinfeld's skill is his laser focus on the little things; the perfection of Pop-Tarts, the way cookies are lined up in the package like an army about to attack. Seinfeld in Seattle: shined shoes, laser focus 2011-10-02T20:42:03Z We heard there is a “hand hygiene lab,” with all kinds of faucets and all kinds of sinks, used to conduct experiments in the perfection of hand-washing. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Cooking duck at home is a classic example of when my quest for perfection undermines the “tasty enough.” This Whole Duck Recipe Is Perfectly Imperfect 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, research involving 40,000 students at universities in the UK, the US and Canada found a 33% increase since 1989 in those who feel they must display perfection to secure approval. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z But as I entered my 40s, still a bachelor, I had to accept the fact that my skewed idea of perfection was ruining my life. Modern Love: How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance 2014-01-23T19:38:45Z The bag of Kenyan beans from Allegro Coffee Roasters indicates they are good through Sept. 19, while the bag of Rwandan beans from One Village Coffee notes they were “roasted to perfection” on May 26. Whole Foods has high standards for produce. So why does it let coffee get stale? 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Her 1935 photograph “Vanderbilt Avenue From East 46th Street” approaches perfection. Review | Dozens of great photographers you’ve probably never heard of — all of them women — light up this revelatory show 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The perfection of the computer animation would simply be wrong. ‘Missing Link’ Review: Lovely Animation, but Lacking Inspiration 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z While some partygoers admitted their design missteps, others held that their homes were the picture of perfection. Fashion Icons Admit Their Design Disasters 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Matheson eventually faces the truth about the Hollywood Brats: “I thought that band was perfection and it quite patently wasn’t.” ‘Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Elysium looks pretty great…if it weren’t for the creepiness of perfection and the whole class warfare thing. Today’s Movie Trailer: Matt Damon in Elysium 2013-04-10T12:00:12Z Harari imagines that in attempting to refine ourselves to utter perfection — the logical apotheosis of humanism, whose history and evolution he traces over many pages — we will destroy humanism itself. Review: ‘Homo Deus’ Foresees a Godlike Future. (Ignore the Techno-Overlords.) 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z “Comedy is who you are, where you’re from, and perfection,” Morgan tells another comic in the piece. 5 things we learned about Tracy Morgan from his new Rolling Stone profile 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z While you’re busy preparing everything else, the potatoes will be warming themselves to perfection. 7 Thanksgiving side dishes to make the day before 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Speaking of the Chaconne as a gem of the violin repertory, Mr. Bell said that you would think no musician would dare “mess with perfection.” Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s nostalgic — but for the past’s faults, not its imagined perfection. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z The perfection built up to surround Emma in the film is external. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z My mouth’s watering thinking about its simplicity and perfection. Seal: ‘Heidi Klum cooked schnitzel for me. Just the once’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z You guys are too concerned with technical perfection. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But to Capote, Babe confided the price she paid for such seemingly effortless perfection: “Surface, surface, surface — that was her life.” ‘The Swans of Fifth Avenue’ review: Would you trust Truman Capote? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Young, driven to perfection and wanting to make a mark, you set yourself up for disappointment. The garden evolves over time, but so does the gardener. Margaret Roach should know. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z “The Importance of Being Earnest” is the rare work of art that achieves perfection on its own terms. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z Balenciaga works for perfection, whether it's an evening dress, suit or coat. Lens Blog: A Look at Gordon Parks's Fashion Photography 2012-11-30T10:00:13Z Again, the best part is the bread: Roasted garlic sourdough is griddled to perfection, as if ready for a Campbell’s tomato soup ad. Junction Bakery & Bistro offers so much more than sweets 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The suit was created, after all, to craft an illusion of physical perfection. Underage Models Return to the Runway and Reignite a Debate 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The movement aims for perfection by following the example of the first three generations of Muslims known as al-salaf al-salihin, starting with the companions of the Prophet Muhammad. Men of war 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z You’ll need to craft a pitch and hone it to perfection. The Best Negotiation Books for 2015 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Then they tackled the lovers' big duet of reconciliation, spinning out their harmonised coloratura with heady perfection. Joshua/Connolly/Bicket 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z It is an endless exercise, literally and figuratively, in the pursuit of perfection and perfunctory joy, itself an oxymoronic idea. “Wellness” is making us sick: How corporate America’s favorite mantra leaves us all feeling inadequate 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z What bugged me the most about the perfection of the Savior scheme, as I watched it unfold, was its timing. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Negan Makes His Entrance 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Photograph: Simon Annand Artifice and technical perfection: chilling terms when applied to almost any work of art outside the music of Ravel. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z "I move onward, only direction, can't be scared to fail, searching perfection", he raps, underlining this notion by talking about doubling your money and upgrading your Lexus. Songs that rope in Texas and tennis 2010-04-14T09:12:00Z Her primary concern was losing the discipline of a ballerina, which includes daily class, regimented nutrition and the pursuit of perfection. A Parisienne in America 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z That year, advertising for Aerie, American Eagle’s lingerie brand, created a sensation with its unretouched photos of models, offering an alternative to the pushed-up perfection of Victoria’s Secret. ‘Women Don’t Want to Be Harnessed Anymore.’ 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Copying was the royal road to aesthetic perfection. 2010-02-15T06:00:00Z I'm not sure there's a right or wrong answer -- Aronofsky is deliberately employing the conventions of misogynistic genre movies, while identifying strongly with Portman's Nina Thayer and her insane, impossible quest for artistic perfection. "Black Swan": Even better than you've heard 2010-12-03T01:30:00Z “Every single thing is orchestrated to perfection,” she said. Scene City: Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams Attend the Premiere of ‘American Hustle’ 2013-12-11T21:14:53Z The list is not about perfection, it’s about the experience the movies provide. One More for the Road: Mary Pols? Top 10 Films of 2011 2011-12-30T14:20:36Z And surely it would have helped if we’d lived in a society less in thrall to the idea of physical perfection, more at ease with the idea that everyone is different. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Flowers and plants at peak perfection, garden design ideas and edible landscaping are sure to sow inspiration for visitors. This Summer, Get Invigorated With a Live Cultural Performance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The nine petals sum to perfection, so I figure the whole for #10.The flower is a petal unto itself, one in a hillspread array of Russian ballerinas. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z Gradually the thrilling precision and permutations, the alternations between motion and stasis, come to feel like a kind of virtuosity, a world of cool perfection you’re sorry to leave. Review: And Now Four Dances, Completely Different 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z In its formal perfection, its reiteration of hierarchical order and its grand theme of good versus evil, “The Sleeping Beauty” represents the summit of balletic classicism. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Paris Opera Ballet 2013-12-22T20:39:11Z "I can swear I never met that horse before in my life," he says, smooth as paint, and you don't even need to know the context; he, if not the film, is perfection. 'Hysteria': An amusing, if not hysterical, Victorian-era comedy 2012-06-14T20:43:04Z The latest psychological suspense novel from the authors of “The Wife Between Us” stars a directionless, solitary woman involved with sisters who seem to offer a gateway to perfection. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From ‘The Office’ to Eating Well 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z It's not cooked to perfection, or adorned in an interesting way. This very normal egg is now famous on Instagram. But why? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The Steads, meanwhile, even to those who delight in the slightly old-fashioned, pale and limpid perfection of their style, seem oddly suited to the 19th-century vigor of the white-suited author. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Respecting and making small adjustments in response to the bumps takes the pressure off the perfection required for a smooth road. Perspective | Some kids prefer remote learning. Why in-person is better, and how to help them transition. 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z How dare they violate the transcendental, Platonic perfection that is a Shakespearian text! Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Visitors looking to try the fish fresh have plenty of options, including the excellent Meia-Nau, where they come grilled to perfection. In Portugal, Taking a Dive Into Sardines 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z In a sense, Petit h is about finding harmony between two opposing values — those of perfection and imperfection. T Magazine: Waste Not, Want It 2011-09-29T22:07:11Z But that myth’s association, not only with death and hell but female perfection and virginal innocence, is unmistakable. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Her handsome new “dream boss,” Tyler Montaigne, lives in a monument to decorating perfection somewhere in Santa Monica Canyon. Review: In ‘Oh! You Pretty Things,’ Shanna Mahin Dishes on Hollywood Foibles 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z And if perfection is the standard, is it applied to everyone in the family? Perspective | Our tween daughter needs to ‘earn’ her phone. Are we overthinking it? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Most people will know “A Clockwork Orange” from the lurid perfection of Stanley Kubrick’s film. Review: In ‘Clockwork Orange,’ the Future is Dark and Very Fit 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The Naked Chicken Chalupa is made with all-white meat chicken, "marinated in bold Mexican spices, rolled in a crunchy coating and crisped to perfection," the announcement said. Taco Bell brings back Naked Chicken Chalupa, joins ‘chicken wars’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The 30- to 60-minute segments every other week detail decisions about décor and dresses, as well as elements beyond aesthetics such as money, people, and the idea of “perfection” that causes strain. Podcasts Inspired by Love and Relationships 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The juvenile Kev, played to dopey perfection by Mr. Fleischer, alternately gripes and makes absurd boasts about the prowess he is yet to prove. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z "You mean that theoretically," Truffaut prompted, "a masterpiece is something that has already found its perfection of form, its definitive form." Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z Mr. Williams, in a recent telephone interview, spoke of “that relentless pursuit of perfection” of the professional ballplayer and the serious instrumentalist. Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z “No one expects perfection,” says Nusheen Ameenuddin, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media and assistant professor of pediatrics at the Mayo Clinic. Our screen-time rules don’t work in this new world. And maybe that’s okay. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Dancers, especially, are driven toward perfection — it’s hard to fight the mirror and the aging body, but Boss seemed to be that elusive thing: happy. What Set tWitch Apart as a Dancer? His Generous Spirit. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Valentine, who is still making art at nearly 80 years old, brought many works out of storage for the show and re-sanded and polished their surfaces back to glossy perfection. Sculptor De Wain Valentine’s Cast-Polyester Resin Is Subject of New York Retrospective 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z They snicker at Mitch’s “Lassie”-like instincts for danger and the absurd, outsize perfection of his body, which resembles a Humvee emerging from a carwash. The ‘Baywatch’ movie spoofs the TV show’s cliches – but has that become its own cliche? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z She no longer feels the need for perfection. Does waxing make me a bad feminist? 2014-02-17T22:00:00Z View from the top: wild Northwest king salmon, prepared to perfection at SkyCity at the Space Needle. I'm wild about Northwest salmon. And you? 2010-06-11T06:01:00Z “Entrepreneurship” has become a buzzword among music conservatories, as institutions scramble to teach students more skills than simply playing their instruments to perfection. Perspective | American orchestras: Revamping the model, or embracing the obvious? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z She’s a natural, a genius, Streisand, Andretti, a California goddess, and, as she brakes and slows and goes, Alana gives you a vision of perfection and “Licorice Pizza” the driver it needs. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z From the minute he hit the stage with the guitar clash of “Collide,” Bay — wearing his signature clergyman’s hat — used this formula to perfection. James Bay makes waves at Showbox SoDo 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z He cursed the idea of sounding “clean” with a four-letter word and a smile and added: “I don’t want perfection. It’s gotta feel right.” Miguel Thrives on Dualities in His New Album, ‘Wildheart’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The spatial placement of Geoffrey Burgess’s oboe and an unnamed soprano chorister for the echo effects caught the glow of the church’s acoustics to perfection, and both artists did lovely work. Review | One aria sums up a joyful Washington Bach Consort ‘Christmas Oratorio’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z This kind of perfection is profoundly irritating, not to mention impossible to maintain. The problem with sanctimonious environmentalists: their boring absolutism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The new Brothers execute the scene with uncanny perfection. How a Lost Marx Brothers Musical Found Its Way Back Onstage 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The letter reassured the president that “the peculiar doctrine which we hold, is not less friendly to the order and happiness of society, than it is essential to the perfection of the Deity.” Damnation, American style: How American preachers reinvented hell 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Lobster bisque, sesame seared tuna — and servers who inform you that steaks are “broiled to perfection” — force time travel on diners. Del Frisco’s Double Eagle: Nothing new at this Texas export, but the steaks sizzle But it is possible to enjoy the expressive potential of makeup and also to wonder if both fortunes rely on female panic, a pursuit of uncatchable perfection. Lip service: what Kylie Jenner really sells us is a brush with fame 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Given its commercial perfection prevalence today, most of us who eat cottage cheese are probably not making it in our own abodes, which means we aren't able to control the outcome of the final product. Cottage cheese isn't tasteless — you just need to buy the good stuff 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z You skip parties, forego your favorite foods, quiz yourself daily on current events, and change your body to look not acceptable — but as close to perfection as possible — in swimwear and evening gowns. Steve Harvey’s epic Miss Universe fail: For one moment, we were all Miss Colombia 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z This dreadful and attractive figure is embodied to perfection by the young actor Sylvain Levitte, whom we first see contemplating his own impish and impious image via the lens of a compact video camera. Review: ‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z I feel like that’s within every artist – the struggle that led you to excel, and that in turn leads you to want to give perfection. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The club and lion skin, however, deform the perfection of his physique, making him seem out of proportion and slightly grotesque. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z My father ensured that the chips were cooked to perfection. Family life 2012-10-12T23:05:19Z “In fact, the longer and longer you are in a marriage, the less you even want perfection.” A Successful Marriage Is Never as Easy as A, B, C 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z I was running out of US and I still hadn’t quite found perfection although, for the first time, I was coming across Trump posters – none for Hilary. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Hatttersley's book, while lucid, fluent and historically correct, falls short of perfection on several counts. The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George by Roy Hattersley 2010-10-02T13:34:00Z “The Chinese like impressive stones and they’re looking for perfection,” he said by telephone. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: Diamond World Sees Treasure in Asia 2011-03-18T17:01:13Z Twice a year, I got it detailed to shining perfection. Motherlode Blog: Losing the Family Car 2011-10-04T19:05:02Z But then, perfection is a tough thing to improve on. The Chic Organization: Up All Night – review 2013-06-27T14:30:00Z But she saw herself as something of a misfit in that world, she said, more enchanted by its infrastructure than by the pursuit of perfection. At the Whitney Biennial, Flood Preparation as Social Dance 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Williams viewed his own wife as "his Beatrice, muse and model of perfection," none of which prevented him from developing passionate, if mostly platonic, relationships with younger women. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z When it comes to cooking meat, precision means perfection. The very best leave-in smart meat thermometer 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Her relentless pursuit of perfection and getting everything just right made working with her an absolute joy. Jerry Zaks on directing Bette Midler in 'Hello, Dolly!' and his sweet return to the Tony Awards 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z People are nice, but the expectation is basically perfection all the time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Couple should cater to each other 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z And Wiest is sly perfection: Watch as Jennifer, drugged and smirking, spits an unprintable curse at her tormentor before putting her in a headlock. ‘I Care a Lot’ Review: The Art of the Steal 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Bryant said people who succeed focus on progress, not perfection, and plan for the inevitable slip-up. New Year’s resolutions may be more procrastination than motivation 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z That's how "The Wire" worked, and for the most part it worked very well, with even short and choppy scenes boasting an egg-like perfection. Dear "Treme": Why are you in such a hurry? 2011-06-27T15:01:00Z They are looking to destinations in the search for empty perfection. Dancing on waves 2010-12-26T00:05:03Z For years, I wore my perfectionism like a badge of honour: “I strive for perfection,” I told myself, “which means my standards are extremely high and will result in higher quality work.” Great expectations: 'The quest for perfection has cannibalised my identity' 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z “To see a room full of black women who are not only saying that they’re artists, but they’re living it — people I admired for so long — it was perfection,” Ms. Davis Johnson said. Overlooked in Atlanta, Black Female Artists Try Miami 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z He was aware that even though the ash effect I coveted was relatively simple, to perform it properly I would first have to learn to perfection certain card techniques. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z On a rainy, late-November afternoon, Williams sat opposite me in a Brooklyn cafe, beaming with the kind of pleasure you can only get from plotting your day out to perfection. Meet the Newer, Bolder Michelle Williams 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Toast them under the grill until they achieve your desired shade, then turn them over and repeat the process for golden perfection. Help! my turkey won’t fit – quick fixes for Christmas dinner disasters 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Bruno Tonioli dubbed it “heavenly perfection,” and the soldiers in the front row looked very impressed with Shawn’s arabesque. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Threesomes and Technical Difficulties 2012-11-13T13:30:41Z “He positions things with real talent. It’s pure simplicity. Is it minimalism? I don’t know if that’s how I’d describe it. It was just perfection.” Wyeth, a Temple of Midcentury Modern Design, Seeks New Wallets 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Brisket is a particularly difficult cut to cook, a thick clump of fat, muscle, connective tissue and collagen that, under perfect conditions, combine into supple, beefy perfection. Brisket Is Worth the Wait 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z And we sense in music an extension of ourselves, a reminder of our own potential for perfection. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z “The style is perfection,” she said, “like vacation.” Salt Life Is Coming to a Beach Near You 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The juices run down into the cake pan and the chicken roasts to perfection! Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Coleslaw lovers can’t do without recipe 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z He introduced me to silky bras edged in dreamy lace that showed off my 36 D lovelies to perfection. My shazam boobs 2012-12-11T01:00:00Z In the first half of the recital, Perahia conveyed a sense of pianistic perfection to a series of small pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Brahms. Pianist Murray Perahia scales the Everest of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' in a momentous performance 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Circling the grounds clockwise were half a dozen frail and elderly Bhutanese, some with hunched backs and canes, chanting the six perfections that lead to enlightenment: generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation and wisdom. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Part of Mr. Koons’s magic is the perfection and seemingly effortless appearance of his objects, but museum experts say they are among the most technically challenging produced today. Whitney Restrospective for Jeff Koons’s Monumental Ambitions 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z If neither production is as close to perfection as Mr. Cooke’s “Ma Rainey” is, both offer scary, satisfying moments of combustion in which characters suddenly seem to burst into flames. The Anger on London’s Stages Is Palpable, and Thrilling 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z And they have refined their mimed bits to the point of perfection, showing respect for the audience by conveying just enough to put the scenes across, never overexplaining. | '666': The Spanish Trouple Yllana at the Minetta Lane Theater 2010-04-22T23:13:00Z In other words, nothing can go extinct, lest it disprove the perfection of God’s creation. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z If our ideals of perfection are ever evolving, one enduring delight of fashion is seeing what variety of consumable beauty it will send down the conveyor belt next. The Ups and Downs of Fashion in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z It's perfect exactly as it is — a never-trying-too-hard kind of sophisticated perfection. Unlike lots of recipes for pecan pies, this one is tried and true 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z And a big part of that duty involved setting off heirloom jewellery to perfection. Belle of the ballgowns: a guide to the V&A exhibition 2012-05-18T21:52:01Z Warner finds her a pernicious role model, an “icon of feminine perfection, built on the equivalence between goodness, motherhood, purity, gentleness and submission.” T Magazine: Immaculate Perception 2010-12-05T23:00:00Z It seems that because digital technology allows creators aesthetic perfection, young auteurs with unique visions are not as highly regarded. “It’s not the MSNBC, Fox BS — f*** this red/blue paradigm: John Cusack unloads on the media, the right and corporate Democrats 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps it hints at a contradictory wish for disembodied perfection at the heart of human desire. Season's reading: I Sing of a Maiden 2010-12-21T16:11:01Z The demands of celebrities also drive this broader trend toward perfection. Magazine Editors and Photographers on Retouching Photos 2012-07-20T22:10:47Z People began to call out the media and corporations for pushing these old ideals of whiteness, thinness and unattainable perfection onto us. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z |
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