Sentences with phrase «outworn perfection»

Thus the contribution to Beauty which can be supplied by Discord — in itself destructive and evil — is the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»