She constantly struggled for perfection, " A perfect technique in anything ," she stated in an interview, " means that there has been no break in continuity between the conception and the act of performance.

Highlights and reflections can reveal the perfect smoothing, which is otherwise practically impossible to achieve without NURBS surfaces that have at least G2 continuity.

There are a variety of debatable notions about Maxwell's thinking, ranging from his supposed desire to perfect the symmetry of the field equations to the desire to achieve compatibility with the continuity equation.

It follows a young film professional — the titular " continuity girl " — in her search for a perfect — and unsuspecting — man to father her child.

the calf was magnificent, the ankle perfect.

But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

Here was a perfect place to lie down and make believe.

Hadn't Linda been a perfect wife to Bobbie, who was the least bit of a disappointment all these years??

Thus, the masculine animate infinitive dabhumaksanigalu'ahai, meaning to live, was, in the perfect tense, ksu'u'peli'afo, and, in the future, mai'teipa.

Acquiring a repertoire from the Laboratory library was no problem to one trained to perfect recall.

Francois Boucher was the 18th century painter and engraver whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period.

The discovery of CP violation helped to shed light on this problem by showing that this symmetry, originally thought to be perfect, was only approximate.

There was an ongoing tradition of allowing anagrams to be " perfect " if the letters were all used once, but allowing for these interchanges.

He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined.

Their goal was to regain access to Eden by finding the correct formula for perfect living, following specific rules governing agriculture, diet, and reproduction.

The episode at Blake Hall was so traumatic that she reproduced it in almost perfect detail in her novel, Agnes Grey.

It was here he was to perfect himself by a study of the most splendid relics of antiquity, and to put his talents to the severest test by a competition with the living masters of the art.

Ben Adret, while reluctant to interfere in the affairs of other congregations, was in perfect accord with Abba Mari as to the danger of the new rationalistic systems, and advised him to organize the conservative forces in defense of the Law.

Zeus needed an elite army and at first thought that Aegina, which at the time did not have any villagers, was the perfect place.

The Aleut baidarka resembled that of an Eskimo Kayak, however, it was designed to be much more aerodynamically fast which was perfect for sea hunting.

The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

Both Bucer and Peter Martyr wrote detailed proposals for modification ; Bucer's Censura ran to 28 chapters which influenced Cranmer significantly though he did not follow them slavishly and the new book was duly produced in 1552, making " fully perfect " what was already implicit.

Cairns also rejects the " romantic legend " that Mozart always wrote out perfect manuscripts of works already completely composed in his head, citing major and prolonged revisions to several manuscripts ( see: Mozart's compositional method ).

By this Polykleitos meant that a statue should be composed of clearly definable parts, all related to one another through a system of ideal mathematical proportions and balance, no doubt expressed in terms of the ratios established by Pythagoras for the perfect intervals of the musical scale: 1: 2 ( octave ), 2: 3 ( harmonic fifth ), and 3: 4 ( harmonic fourth ).

The Pancharatnas are composed in perfect sarvalaghu swaras.

It is widely believed that the sixth suite was composed specifically for a five-stringed violoncello piccolo, a smaller cello, roughly the size of a 7 / 8 normal cello that has a fifth upper string tuned to E, a perfect fifth above the otherwise top string.

" He also noted that Ballamy has composed music for and performed in circuses before, and that " e just seemed to be perfect for it.

The perfect can refer to events in the past that have been finished ( such as “ He has already eaten dinner ”) as well as events that are ongoing ( such as “ He had been working on this novel for a year ” or “ He has composed operas for twenty years ”); all are characterized by continued relevance to the speaker at the time of perspective.

Different choirs or instrumental groupings occupied positions across the cathedral from each other: because of the sound delay from one side to the other in the large and acoustically " live " space, a perfect unison was difficult, and composers found that a fantastically effective music could be composed with the choirs singing across to each other, in stereo as it were ; all accompanied by organ or other groups of instruments placed in such a way that they could hear each group equally well.

Barney uses video to perfect his sculpture by evaluating positioning, lighting, size and shape, using video as a means to his end product of sculpture Barney ’ s long-time collaborator Jonathan Bepler composed and arranged the films ’ soundtracks.

In September 1941 Stalin personally appointed Rokossovsky to the command of 16th Army, which was the first Soviet army group composed entirely of soldiers serving in shtrafbats ( Soviet penal battalions ); Stalin reportedly viewed Rokossovsky, the former disgraced Gulag inmate who had barely escaped his imprisonment alive, as the perfect candidate to lead the brutal penal units, even going so far as to bemusedly comment on Rokossovsky's missing fingernails ( pulled out by the NKVD torturers during his imprisonment ) at the meeting where he was assigned his command.

Intelligent and composed, Mawata is the seemingly perfect child of the family.

The other essential elements of a scholar garden were plants, trees, and rocks, all carefully composed into small perfect landscapes.

He thinks he's succeeded when he reveals to Murdock that Jordan's singing is so bad it shatters light bulbs, but Murdock suggests that Jordan would be perfect for the part of a train whistle in a song he ( Murdock ) composed while in prison.

Mercury first composed the song in 1972 but Queen put off recording the song for their debut album because they wanted more studio freedom to perfect the song which because of their debut album's hectic recording schedule they didn't have that.

An underexposed, badly composed picture of the Eiffel Tower can be just as copyright protected as a two-meter-tall print of a perfect photograph of the same tower by a professional photographer, provided that the legal requirements of a work are met.

Whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, with the variety of its climates, productions, and commerce, the difference of extent, and number of inhabitants in all ; the dissimilitude of interest, morals, and policies, in almost every one, will receive it as an intuitive truth, that a consolidated republican form of government therein, can never form a perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to you and your posterity, for to these objects it must be directed: this unkindred legislature therefore, composed of interests opposite and dissimilar in their nature, will in its exercise, emphatically be, like a house divided against itself.

The top and bottom lines are freely composed ; the middle line, designated " fauxbourdon " in the original, follows the top line but exactly a perfect fourth below.

By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Yet you feel the orchestra is near at hand, and the individual instruments have the same firm presence associated with listening from a good seat in an acoustically perfect hall.

The energy for any isothermal work done by the perfect gas must come as thermal energy from its surroundings.

Second, if there is ever a perfect time to pull the rug out from under him, it's on maneuvers.

Its rotunda forms a perfect circle whose diameter is equal to the height from the floor to the ceiling.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

Alternative arguments from moral order have proposed that we have an obligation to attain the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue.

Published well after the restaurants ' founding in 1971, this new cookbook from the restaurant seemed to perfect the idea and philosophy that had developed over the years.

The name " ablative " derives from the Latin ablatus, the ( irregular ) perfect passive participle of auferre " to carry away ".

The choirs typically range from 40 to 80 singers and are recognized for their efforts to perfect blend, intonation, phrasing and pitch in a large choral setting.

Though diverse, these views may be generally classified into those that hold Christ to be only divine and not differing from the Father hypostatically ; those that hold Christ to be less fully God than the Father ; in other forms being completely human and a messenger as the perfect created human.

The word concrete comes from the Latin word " concretus " ( meaning compact or condensed ), the perfect passive participle of " concrescere ", from " con -" ( together ) and " crescere " ( to grow ).

The scores range from 0, which signifies the beer is in such poor condition it cannot be drunk or that no real ale is available ; through 2, which signifies an average beer that is drunk without calling attention to itself in either a positive or negative manner ; up to 5, which signifies a perfect beer.

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

Only a walk kept Young from his second perfect game.

Consilience does not forbid deviations: in fact, since not all experiments are perfect, some deviations from established knowledge are expected.

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.

According to the LDS church, Christ's unwavering ability to obey truth, perceive light, and act in perfect love and faith, distinguishes his pre-mortal existence from the pre-mortal existence of the other spirit beings who were in the presence of the " Eternal Father ".

Whereas Sergei Eisenstein viewed his montage of attractions as a propaganda tool through which the film-viewing masses could be subjected to “ emotional and psychological influence ” and therefore able to perceive “ the ideological aspect ” of the films they were being shown, Vertov believed the Kino-Eye would influence the actual evolution of man, “ from a bumbling citizen through the poetry of the machine to the perfect electric man .”

It draws heavily from quantitative methods such as operations research and programming and from statistical methods such as regression analysis in the absence of certainty and perfect knowledge.