Yet this image of perfection targets something beyond beauty.

Our daughters now experience non-stop pressure to present an idealised, waxed, buffed, partying image of perfection 24/7.

I couldn't maintain an image of perfection.

They were trying to raise awareness of difficult issues, at odds with the image of perfection many celebs feel they need to project.

Very few of us are totally impervious to the images of perfection fed to us through the media.

They have a notion of perfection that doesn't exist.

This proof moves from the notion of perfection—a being none greater than which can be conceived—to the necessity of such a being's existence.

Is it depressing to hold on to that notion of perfection?

Scouts were recruiting youngsters according to their talent and ability with school subjects, in addition to their personality, character, and physical perfection.

He considers himself flawless, a towering inferno of physical perfection, and refers to himself in both the first and third person.

He managed to escape, and wandered through the valley, pushing himself to exercise daily and becoming a paragon of physical perfection.

Her followers are commonly ascetics and focused on self-improvement, through physical perfection and harmony, not gnosis.

He believes he has achieved physical perfection.

Employees who put pressure on themselves in the workplace as they pursue perfection are being driven to extreme stress and burnout, a study has found.

Normal perfectionists pursue perfection without compromising their self-esteem, and derive pleasure from their efforts.

Coach, sporting director, senior players, scouts, medical department, support staff; all could change as he quixotically pursues perfection in his eternally flawed fiefdom.

In a society that pursues perfection, it's difficult to walk around with a huge imperfection where your hair used to be.

We see him commanding his troupe, critiquing the band and pursuing perfection for every minute spent on stage.

I am always chasing to better myself as you can never reach perfection and that keeps me reaching for more goals.

He criticized himself privately a great deal not because he failed to reach perfection, but because he wanted more progress.

After all, we know we'll never reach perfection this side of heaven.

They have 12 months to reach perfection.

Another pressure on adolescents was the attempt to seek perfection in appearances or body image.

As staff members it's easy to subtly seek perfection as a greater priority than unity.

They seek perfection without ever being likely to achieve it, such are their standards.

When we seek perfection, we find failure.

He's sought perfection and found it: but he also found despair.

It's not because nobody has ever achieved technical perfection.

The usual things: technical perfection; febrile, vibrato-heavy emotions; strength, but not a great deal of wit.

He graced a blissful day at cricket's ultimate venue with an innings of such style and technical perfection it could have been invented by the angels.

Its approach had been honed to technical perfection.

That was, however, before the technical perfection achieved by modern computers.