Use "imperfectly" in a sentence

1. It was almost like a time capsule, a time capsule from when pathogens were imperfectly controlled

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2. The situation of those countries was at that time very imperfectly known in Europe

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3. However imperfectly formed in their thinking, primitives were guided by a transcendent moral authority that, however unclear, informed their respective culture(s)

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4. What does this have to do with Abraham’s story? It does seem to tie him in with the flood story, even if only imperfectly

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5. But for whom was the deliverance meant? The Christians would have to fight many long costly battles to imperfectly hold the Holy Lands, for a time only

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6. But then, as he progressed in his understanding of these forces, he realized that even they were not the sources of that Essence that he had always seemed to feel, but oh, so imperfectly

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7. And still you understand imperfectly

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8. imperfectly remembered fragments, some of which have already appeared

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9. Thus reproducing you imperfectly in this sphere

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10. systemisations furious sensations fortune hits the bullseye imperfectly devoted to the

11. In this case the collision is referred as imperfectly elastic

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12. But loving is the impossible rendered actual by the perfecting acts of loving imperfectly

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13. Perfect love is love loving imperfectly, with the intention of loving ever more carefully

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14. If perfection can be achieved, it can only occur through practicing imperfectly

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15. And though life is given to all the living equally, it is a perfect gift given imperfectly, because it exists within conditions which are unequal, unfair, and unrelentingly merciless

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16. It was yet another recitation of the strident political views William had learnt, imperfectly, from his relatives

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17. I do it officially in his presence for an hour daily, he as full of mistrust of my English as ever, trying to check it with a dictionary, and using picturesque language to convey his disgust to me that he should be so imperfectly acquainted with a tongue so useful

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18. At tea-time her condition can best, though yet imperfectly, be described as chastened

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19. His face had never been a pretty sight, but with all the peeling blisters imperfectly covering it up, with rosy fresh skin showing underneath, it looked worse than ever

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20. Consequently it is understood imperfectly by finite minds and represented in myriad conflicting ways

21. This explains, for example, the fact that we remember imperfectly the events that happened to us in our childhood or in adolescence

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22. This picture gives us a hint of how infinitely complex the formation and splitting of Formlessness into Infinite Everythingness and Infinite Nothingness actually was… Before they were completely split in two, they managed to reconnect back together again into a single Totality with layers of Everythingness and Nothingness within it… Before the Three dimensions were created, Impetus split Formlessness in two halves that were mixed up imperfectly

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23. And since the Universe is not perfect, because the Universe is imperfectly balanced, the exact center of the Universe is not perfectly balanced either: it rotates and vibrates on many levels in many ways, in relation to the Infinite Universe as an interconnected interrelated whole; not in any other way

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24. So to humanely reconcile the anomaly between creations characteristics of ‘perfection’ and ‘imperfection’, we could say that creation is perfectly imperfect or imperfectly perfect, for creation has been created by the Perfect One

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25. to a visual mirror, the universe reflects imperfectly inverted images of thoughts

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26. Imperfectly perfect, because there was no room left for the play of life

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27. The teachers of the first century complied imperfectly with S

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28. The rays concern energy and consciousness, and determine expression, but where the matter utilised and the vehicle informed is as yet imperfectly evolved, there is then limitation and the "tuning out" automatically of much of the energy

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29. He knew very well, that in his horror of the deed which had culminated the bad deeds and bad reputation of the old family house, in his resentful suspicions of his uncle, and in the aversion with which his conscience regarded the crumbling fabric that he was supposed to uphold, he had acted imperfectly

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30. Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son

31. "Such," said Colonel Brandon, after a pause, "has been the unhappy resemblance between the fate of mother and daughter! and so imperfectly have I discharged my trust!"

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32. We have learned, though as yet imperfectly, that the individual man has an endless value in the sight of God, and that we honour Him when we honour the darkened and disfigured image of Him (Laws)

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33. For we too should admit that a child must receive many lessons which he imperfectly understands; he must be taught some things in a figure only, some too which he can hardly be expected to believe when he grows older; but we should limit the use of fiction by the necessity of the case

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34. The one is a finished work which received the last touches of the author: the other is imperfectly executed, and apparently unfinished

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35. When these mammals wanted to relocate, they moved in little jumps made by contracting their bodies, clumsily helped by their imperfectly developed flippers, which, as with their manatee relatives, form actual forearms

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36. "What can the Hurons do?" returned the savage, speaking also, though imperfectly,

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37. Franz heard the words of the count but imperfectly, and he perhaps did not fully appreciate this new attention to their wishes; for he was wholly absorbed by the spectacle that the Piazza del Popolo presented, and by the terrible instrument that was in the centre

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38. "You know how imperfectly the women of the mezzo cito are educated in Italy?" (This is

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39. Like all the Unseelie, created imperfectly from an imperfect Song of Making, he is pathologically driven to achieve what he lacks—a face and identity—by stealing faces and identities from humans

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40. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel

41. It comprised a variety of instruments, perhaps imperfectly adapted to one another, and played with no great skill; but yet attaining the great object for which the harmony of drum and clarion addresses itself to the multitude,—that of imparting a higher and more heroic air to the scene of life that passes before the eye

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42. I was not sure whether he had seen what was only too obvious from my position, that the door of the safe was imperfectly closed, and that Milverton might at any moment observe it

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43. Accordingly, when the two angry men had sat back in their seats, bleached in the face with passion, and panting and out of breath, I rose up in my chair at the head of the table, and with a judicial solemnity addressed the council, saying, that what we had witnessed was a disgrace not to be tolerated in a Christian land; that unless we obtained indemnity for the past, and security for the future, I would resign; but in doing so I would bring the cause thereof before the Fifteen at Edinburgh, yea, even to the House of Lords at London; so I gave the offending parties notice, as well as those who, from motives of personal friendship, might be disposed to overlook the insult that had been given to the constituted authority of the king, so imperfectly represented in my person, as it would seem, by the audacious conflict and misdemeanour which had just taken place

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44. heard imperfectly: "By heavens! the fellow has stolen my watch

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45. All these cases were doing well; but when he came to the dead Cargador he stopped a little longer, surveying not the man who had ceased to suffer, but the woman kneeling in silent contemplation of the rigid face, with its pinched nostrils and a white gleam in the imperfectly closed eyes

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46. And in the superintendent's private room the privileged passenger by the Ceres, or Juno, or Pallas, stunned and as it were annihilated mentally by a sudden surfeit of sights, sounds, names, facts, and complicated information imperfectly apprehended, would listen like a tired child to a fairy tale; would hear a voice, familiar and surprising in its pompousness, tell him, as if from another world, how there was "in this very harbour" an international naval demonstration, which put an end to the Costaguana-Sulaco War

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47. Illingworth was imperfectly heard in part of his remarks on account of the strenuous opposition of the friends of the explorers

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48. Power transformers tilted up like weary crucifixes, shot through with rust and ice on the far side of a window he could see through only imperfectly, as he could remember the night only imperfectly

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49. It answered to some deep, sweet need he had to be a part of them—a sense of being, himself, imperfectly stamped out—which was maybe connected to still other music, back beyond the caul of forgetting that covered whatever faces had sung the newborn Charlie to sleep at the Home for Unwed Mothers out on the East End

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50. At first I couldn’t tell what was being indicated, but then I saw it: what hung from the stop-sign pole at the corner was not a stop sign, but a canvas, imperfectly octagonal and only approximately red

51. Brooke's pen went off into a little speech which it had lately reported for that imperfectly edited organ the "Middlemarch Pioneer

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52. But this imperfectly taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her

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53. While imperfectly applied, my precepts were having salutary effects at the office

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54. “Market history shows that a formation can be discarded (1) when it is supplanted by another pattern which precedes or follows it, (2) when it is short or imperfectly formed, or (3) when it occurs at a very low level, historically, in the average

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55. Nordau and Lombroso would so classify him, and qua criminal he is of an imperfectly formed mind

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56. Glimpses could be caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a possible revolution

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57. If this signal is used, it is worth recalling that corporate profits in national accounts series and S&P earnings series are only imperfectly correlated (e

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58. Such evidence seems to favor irrationality stories but the rationalists argue that the characteristic might be a good proxy for imperfectly estimated factor beta

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59. The nature of parties has been imperfectly studied

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60. He had communicated it to no creature: he had not breathed a syllable of it even to Mary; while uncertain of the issue, he could not have borne any participation of his feelings, but this had been his business; and he spoke with such a glow of what his solicitude had been, and used such strong expressions, was so abounding in the deepest interest, in twofold motives, in views and wishes more than could be told, that Fanny could not have remained insensible of his drift, had she been able to attend; but her heart was so full and her senses still so astonished, that she could listen but imperfectly even to what he told her of William, and saying only when he paused, “How kind! how very kind! Oh, Mr

61. She had read Miss Crawford’s note only once, and how to reply to anything so imperfectly understood was most distressing

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62. Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother’s account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son

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63. He had communicated it to no creature: he had not breathed a syllable of it even to Mary; while uncertain of the issue, he could not have borne any participation of his feelings, but this had been his business; and he spoke with such a glow of what his solicitude had been, and used such strong expressions, was so abounding in the deepest interest, in twofold motives, in views and wishes more than could be told, that Fanny could not have remained insensible of his drift, had she been able to attend; but her heart was so full and her senses still so astonished, that she could listen but imperfectly even to what he told her of William, and saying only when he paused, "How kind! how very kind! Oh, Mr

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64. She had read Miss Crawford's note only once, and how to reply to anything so imperfectly understood was most distressing

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65. This is a very important subject, most imperfectly understood, and no doubt wholly different classes of facts may be here easily confounded together

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66. The crust of the earth is a vast museum; but the natural collections have been imperfectly made, and only at long intervals of time

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67. In the first case the two sexual elements which go to form the embryo are perfect; in the second case they are either not at all developed, or are imperfectly developed

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68. But after all, the cause more probably lies in some imperfection in the original act of impregnation, causing the embryo to be imperfectly developed, rather than in the conditions to which it is subsequently exposed

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69. In regard to the sterility of hybrids, in which the sexual elements are imperfectly developed, the case is somewhat different

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70. The Malay Archipelago is one of the richest regions in organic beings; yet if all the species were to be collected which have ever lived there, how imperfectly would they represent the natural history of the world!

71. For my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect

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72. His mind was in a confused state, so much so that the incidents of the morning seemed to be imperfectly realized, though acutely felt

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73. The separation began with the preaching of Paul, who knew but imperfectly the ethical doctrine set forth in the Gospel of Matthew, and who preached a metaphysico-cabalistic theory entirely foreign to the doctrine of Jesus; and this theory was perfected under Constantine, when the existing pagan social organization was proclaimed Christian simply by covering it with the mantle of Christianity

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74. 4, and very imperfectly quoted by Tolstóy

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75. "They will ascertain, what is as yet but very imperfectly known, the depth, the temperature, the saltness, and the specific gravity of the sea-water in those high latitudes—the velocity of the currents, the state of atmospherical electricity in the arctic regions, and its connexion, at which we have glanced, with the inclination, declination, and intensity of force of the magnetic needle; on which subject alone, a collection of facts towards the upper part of Davis's Straits would be worth a voyage of discovery

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76. The mineralogy of this section of the country has been but imperfectly explored

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77. The crystals very seldom form the perfect cross, though many were found, intersecting each other imperfectly at angles of 60°

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78. So I sailed for Italy on the 6th of last May, taking with me a good camera and a sufficient number of celluloid films, knowing beforehand that there were many of these monuments which had never been photographed and were consequently imperfectly known

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79. " Now, these are manifestly the vices and infirmities of an immature and imperfectly cultured race

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