Sentences with phrase «were less than perfect»

Even if those past holidays were less than perfect (and how many of us really have perfect holidays?)

But I've actually found it's tougher to «leave» parents who were less than perfect or even harmful.

He does an excellent job, and still retains the charm that served him well, even when the films surrounding him were less than perfect.

«You have to give yourself permission to fail, permission to be less than perfect sometimes.

We certainly are less than perfect when it comes to household matters.

Women are particularly susceptible, of course — just look at the cover of magazines on display near any supermarket checkout counter and you can see the punishment for being less than perfect in public.

Here are options if your credit is less than perfect.

It should be noted, however, that this relationship is not perfect; in certain environments, gold miner stocks and physical gold prices can move in opposite directions, and correlation between the two can be less than perfect.

If you've been in business for at least a year, have a healthy business with annual revenues of at least $ 100,000, and a good personal and business credit profile (even it it's less than perfect), an OnDeck loan could make sense.

Our credit was less than perfect and we had a lot of bills starting to pile up.

But as economists, we know that credit provision will always be less than perfect in a financial system such as our own.

Canada business owners should know that even if your credit history is less than perfect, a small business loan or merchant cash advance may be a great alternative for your financing needs.

Odd, in the OT, they would separate those who had poor eyesight as being less than perfect.

For God would be less than perfect — that is to say, less than God — if either his holiness or his love had come into being at a certain point within God's own divine life.

I also know someone who is less than perfect and the survivor of a botched abortion.

For process thinkers, this insistence most emphatically does not mean that God is less than perfect, not in control, or totally determined by what happens in the world.

God won't let anyone who is less than perfect into His realm.

It is so easy to criticise the Church in being less than perfect as it tries to enfold all that enter it's doors.

The church and believers are less than perfect because we are humans.

(Clearly talking serpents / Lucifer / Satan / Beelzebub / etc in the Garden is less than perfect.)

In fact, the role of the family loomed so important with most of the respondents that, as Dr. Albert Solnit of Yale's Child Study Center put it, people cherish their families and family history «even when their experience has been less than perfect.»

It rather means that under the universal experience of imperfection there is no action which is not seen to be less than perfect or incapable of being improved upon.

The dough was quite delicate to work with and tore easily after I folded the fruit in (probably too much moisture), so the shape is less than perfect, but that's immaterial once you take a bite!

It's not that I can't make myself sit through a meal that is less than perfect.

I really want to recreate my absolute favorite Little Debbie snacks, but the results have been less than perfect so far.

Today I inked up a post titled «In Defense of Dirt and Grime» — http://www.commonsensehome.com/in-defense-of-dirt-and-grime/ where I share my «dirty secrets» about being a less than perfect housekeeper, and why I don't worry too much about germs.

To be less than perfect at this stage is no disgrace, even if it is an inconvenience.

Yet Spartak's summer transfer window was less than perfect.

If your body is less than perfect and you don't have time to work on it, don't skip the beach altogether!

You are not a failure if your results are less than perfect.

I pack her backpack with healthy snacks but it has been a less than perfect solution.

«Rice cereal is a less than perfect choice for the first complementary food given to infants.

A mother who gives up on breastfeeding because she allowed herself to be talked into something that was less than perfect for her baby, is likely to find that her self image as a competent mother is compromised.

Breast milk can meet your baby's nutritional needs even when your diet is less than perfect, according to the BabyCenter website.

However, if you are brown and particularly Muslim and brown you can not ever be less than a perfect human being.

Recognizing that they are less than perfect, we use the OMB and NSF definitions of R&D for our analyses and the OMB data as our basic source materials.

Although federal R&D data are less than perfect, the OMB figures, supplemented by data obtained directly from the agencies, do provide a good basic source of material for conducting an analysis of R&D budget trends.

Still, this window on the past is less than perfect, warns Linda Evans, an environmental historian at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who studies representations of animals in ancient Egyptian art.

If the metal were perfectly conducting, it would reflect all of the light, but the conductivity of real metals is less than perfect.

I make a point to limit anything packaged over the holidays since my meals tend to be less than perfect.

If your form is less than perfect, try a different grip or pick a lighter weigh.

This can be due to the fact that a lot of people have seen how effective it is in terms of losing weight even though your diet is less than perfect.

It's no less than the perfect choice if you're hoping to add more fish to your diet.

Safety nets are understandable, but they can become a tempting escape when things are less than perfect.

They also often wish to be people - pleasers and «perfectionists,» and don't settle for anything that is less than perfect, lest they become very disappointed.

Eliminate outside petals that are less than perfect; trim leaves that compete for water; peel away the papery brown sheaths from a budding daffodil.

I know the weather in New York (and most of the East Coast) is less than perfect, which is why I'm so happy I got away.

We are checking every unit of this necklace for wear and tear, and we will retire anything that is less than perfect.

In the meantime, though the pictures are less than perfect, I want to share with you some items I've had my eye on for the fall.

It's less than perfect girl - on - the - go weather.