Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

Critias mentions an allegedly historical tale that would make the perfect example, and follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias.

Some games ( chess being the classic example ) are perfect information games: every player has complete information on the state of the game.

The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.

For example, a perfect crystal of diamond would only contain carbon atoms, but a real crystal might perhaps contain a few boron atoms as well.

Cantor himself only mentioned the ternary construction in passing, as an example of a more general idea, that of a perfect set that is nowhere dense.

Orchestral parts rarely demand the double bass exceed a two-octave range ( an example of an exception to this rule is Orff's Carmina Burana, which calls for three octaves and a perfect fourth ).

An example of abstract thinking is Pythagoras ' concept of ' pure ' geometric forms: perfect triangles, squares, circles.

A perfect example of formalist criticism of auteur style would be the work of Alfred Hitchcock.

Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

An example of this would be the perfect gas equation of state:

A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality where all values are the same ( for example, where everyone has an exactly equal income ).

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

For example, the English verbs " to know " ( the state of knowing ) and " to find out " ( knowing viewed as a " completed action ") correspond to the imperfect and perfect of the French verb " savoir ".

Spanish and Ancient Greek, for example, have a perfect ( not the same as the perfective ), which refers to a state resulting from a previous action ( also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time ).

An example of this is how TLR5 ( activated by flagellin ) can redistribute to the basolateral membrane, which is the perfect place where flagellin can be detected.

Philosopher Bertrand Russell described him as " the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating ".

* perfect has the suffix – uī, for example:

* perfect has the suffix – ī and vowel lengthening in the stem, for example:

* perfect is reduplicated, for example:

The Sainte Chapelle, a perfect example of the Rayonnant style of Gothic architecture, was erected as a shrine for the Crown of Thorns and a fragment of the True Cross, precious relics of the Passion of Jesus.

Cleavage is not a universal property among minerals ; for example, quartz, consisting of extensively interconnected silica tetrahedra, does not have a crystallographic weakness which would allow it to cleavage, whereas micas — which have perfect basal cleavage — consist of sheets of silica tetrahedra which are very weakly held together.

Minerals with many cleavages might not break equally well in all of the directions ; for example, calcite has good cleavage in three direction, but gypsum has perfect cleavage in one direction, and poor cleavage in two other directions.

For example, following the ideas of Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, scientists reasoned that a cannonball falls down because its natural position is in the earth ; the sun, the moon, and the stars travel in circles around the earth because it is the nature of heavenly objects to travel in perfect circles.

For example, a non-identity finite group is simple if and only if it is isomorphic to all of its non-identity homomorphic images, a finite group is perfect if and only if it has no normal subgroups of prime index, and a group is imperfect if and only if the derived subgroup is not supplemented by any proper normal subgroup.

Adam and Eve were perfect, not in the sense that they possessed perfection, but in the sense that they were capable of development toward perfection.

Captain America has no superhuman powers, although as a result of the Super-Soldier Serum and " Vita-Ray " treatment, he is transformed from a frail young man into a " perfect " specimen of human development and conditioning.

The reprogramming process cells need to go through during cloning is not perfect and embryos produced by nuclear transfer often show abnormal development.

" He further argued that the intellect itself " possesses levels of development from the material intellect ( al -‘ aql al-hayulani ), that potentiality can acquire knowledge to the active intellect ( al -‘ aql al-fa ‘ il ), the state of the human intellect at conjunction with the perfect source of knowledge.

The implication of this is that it is impossible to perfect one phase of software development, thus it is impossible if using the waterfall model to move on to the next phase.

Moral development is a lifelong process, and almost no one is so perfect as not to need improvement.

At Stoneleigh Abbey in 1808, Repton foreshadowed another nineteenth century development, creating a perfect cricket pitch called ' home lawn ' in front of the west wing and a bowling green lawn between the gatehouse and the house.

While infrastructure development may initially be damaging to the natural environment, justifying the need to assess environmental impacts, it may contribute in mitigating the " perfect storm " of environmental and energy sustainability, particularly in the role transportation plays in modern society.

By His own moral and religious development He made possible a relation of perfect fellowship between God and man, which was the new and highest stage of the divine creation of mankind.

Taking the eye as an example, Darwin was able to show many stages of light sensitivity and eye development in the animal kingdom as proof of the utility of less than perfect sight ( argument by intermediate stages ).

In 1947, studies into both problems led to the development of perfect shapes to reduce wave drag as much as theoretically possible.

The well-fortified and secure town provided perfect conditions for the development of craft and trade.

Eventually Misaki learns that her mother was key in the development of Angelic Layer, which she worked on in an attempt to develop a perfect prosthesis for her multiple sclerosis, which has confined her to a wheelchair.

Thus the degree of " tuning " necessary for intervention in otherwise " perfect " market mechanisms becomes more and more extreme as the time in which the capitalist order is a progressive factor in the development of productive forces recedes further and further into the past.

Work on the game was extended because the development staff wanted to perfect the game due to high expectations from the fans and because the team only consisted of about 35 people.

In the development of Latin, for example, the aorist merged with the perfect.

As the software was never a perfect fit for Opcode Systems, the company ceased active development on it in the mid-90s.

As the ultimate principle, Speusippus would not, with Plato, recognise the Good, but, with others, ( who doubtless were also Platonists ), going back to the older Theologi, maintained that the principles of the universe were to be set down as causes of the good and perfect, but were not the good and perfect itself, which must rather be regarded as the result of generated existence, or development, just as the seeds of plants and animals are not the fully formed plants or animals themselves.

The development is elaborate and mainly based on the first subject of the movement and explores a long harmonic progression ( starting from F major, reaching an Interrupted cadence of C major, and then to G major with a final perfect cadence to f major ); it also refines the juxtaposition and combination of the orchestral instruments ( woodwinds and strings ); the recapitulation is almost coherent with the exposition ; the coda reminisces the motivic work of the development before it closes the movement with strongly repeated chords played by the whole orchestra.

The Australian Grafton Elliot Smith for instance, in his works The Children of the Sun ( 1923 ) and The Growth of Civilisation ( 1924 ), put forward the idea that agriculture, architecture, religion and government had all developed in Ancient Egypt, where the conditions were perfect for the development of such things, and that these ideas were then diffused into other cultures.

In The University of Utopia, Hutchins describes a country that has evolved to become the perfect society, Utopia, as well as their educational system, which has the well-defined purpose of " promot the intellectual development of the people ".