"പൂർണത" എന്ന വാക്ക് തികഞ്ഞതോ കുറ്റമറ്റതോ ആയ അവസ്ഥയെയോ ഗുണത്തെയോ സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ഒരു നാമമാണ്. തെറ്റുകളോ കുറവുകളോ കുറവുകളോ ഇല്ലാത്ത ഒരു കാര്യത്തെ വിവരിക്കാൻ ഇത് പലപ്പോഴും ഉപയോഗിക്കാറുണ്ട്. ഒരു പ്രത്യേക സന്ദർഭത്തിൽ ഏറ്റവും ഉയർന്ന നിലവാരം അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ആദർശം കൈവരിക്കുക എന്ന ആശയവും "പെർഫെക്ഷന്" അറിയിക്കാൻ കഴിയും. ഇത് ലാറ്റിൻ പദമായ "പെർഫെക്റ്റിയോ" എന്നതിൽ നിന്നാണ് ഉരുത്തിരിഞ്ഞത്, അതിനർത്ഥം "പൂർണ്ണത" അല്ലെങ്കിൽ "മികവ്" എന്നാണ്.
1. I was in awe of what I suspected might be as close to perfection as a person could get.
2. Dressed in a fine Italian suit, which fit his tall, leanly muscled form to perfection, the Prime of the Western United States fixed bright green eyes on Mal.
3. Unsurprisingly, his upper body was a study in chiseled perfection.
4. It seems simple, like a Greek column, because of its perfection.
5. When I say proficiency, I mean that perfection in the game which includes a comprehension of all the sources whence legitimate advantage may be derived.
6. Now, add power-sapping Federal emission controls, discontinue the elegant fixed-head coupe for a long wheelbase, perfection stretched on a medieval rack.
7. To be brief, he took the materials, of which he made a compound, mixing them all and boiling them a good while until it seemed to him they had come to perfection.
8. This, then, being so, I consider, friend Sancho, that the knight-errant who shall imitate him most closely will come nearest to reaching the perfection of chivalry.
9. Remember, my friend, that woman is an imperfect animal, and that impediments are not to be placed in her way to make her trip and fall, but that they should be removed, and her path left clear of all obstacles, so that without hindrance she may run her course freely to attain the desired perfection, which consists in being virtuous.
10. Plots in fiction should be wedded to the understanding of the reader, and be constructed in such a way that, reconciling impossibilities, smoothing over difficulties, keeping the mind on the alert, they may surprise, interest, divert, and entertain, so that wonder and delight joined may keep pace one with the other all which he will fail to effect who shuns verisimilitude and truth to nature, wherein lies the perfection of writing.