How To Use Perfectible In A Sentence
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The Western Romantics believed that their societies were perfectible and could be salvaged from within.
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That said, it is important in a way that many other screeds only wish to be, and, in an easily perfectible world, would serve as a rallying cry for tax reform.
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The human body is no longer a given but provisional, perfectible, plastic; a work in progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are encouraged to think of relationships as perfectible and, when they prove not to be, disposable.
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The anonymous narrator's struggle with the intractable but potentially perfectible medium of language is what constitutes the real story.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As their emphasis is on this world, they cling to the belief that man is morally perfectible and that Utopia on earth is achievable.
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The old idea that we could study past mistakes so as not to repeat them implied a perfectible society in a state of continual improvement.
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Man is an imperfectible animal, and because he is, we can't eliminate hate-we can't eliminate brutality-we can't eliminate unreason.
Canadian and American Relations
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The human body is no longer a given but provisional, perfectible, plastic; a work in progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the purpose of my argument Rousseau was a romantic idealist who believed in individualism and and that the human condition was perfectible, and he was, in fact, these things.
Matthew Yglesias » The Collapse of Latvia
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Just as she believed man to be continuously perfectible, so too could republics become increasingly enlightened until they achieved her ideal of national freedom enhanced by intellectual cosmopolitanism.
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Augustinianism), which, by definition, asserted that humans were fallen, imperfect, and imperfectible by their own devices.
Dad29
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The anonymous narrator's struggle with the intractable but potentially perfectible medium of language is what constitutes the real story.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Human nature being the imperfectible thing it is, he thought, the French would more than likely "run to anarchy.
City Journal
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Its opening sentence, "Life is difficult", introduced a tome which argued, uncontentiously and sensibly, that human experience was trying and imperfectible, and that only self-discipline, delaying gratification, acceptance that one's actions have consequences, and a determined attempt at spiritual growth could make sense of it.
BatesLine: October 2005 Archives
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If human nature is in these ways imperfectible by mere instruction and teaching, why do you believe it to be perfectible in the case of rape?
Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped
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Circulating perfectible search mode and fault chain figure expression method of tree structure are first used to analyze power grid cascading failures.
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The second is a conviction that human beings are perfectible, not merely spiritually or philosophically, but physically.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second is a conviction that human beings are perfectible, not merely spiritually or philosophically, but physically.
Times, Sunday Times
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Against this, her vocals stood even more intensely as the pure residue, the hauntology in the machine, the tragedy of the soul imperfectible by science.
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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The final consumer good is beauty in our surroundings, and beauty is both individual and imperfectible.
A Kingdom for a Frame, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
