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P E R F E C T			-	207	-	P E R S O N A L
			PERFECT — IMPERFECT
			PERFECTLY ^ IMPERFECTLY
			PERFECTION — IMPERFECTION
1	dare say we have been			the	very imperfect	children		of
	a	very	perfect mother.			M a jo r ,		2 4
						M a jo r ,		2 4
It	is	not	the perfect, but	the	imperfect, who	have	need
	of	love.				I d e a l,	2 3 0
						I d e a l,	2 3 0

... seeing the creature there in a perfectly animal atti tude, with the light gleaming in its eyes and its imperfectly human face distorted with terror, I real ized again the fact of its humanity.

	M o re a u ,	152
...the first object	that presented itself to his view	was
a pair of very	imperfectly shod feet...

C u r io sity , 53

... at a vile theatre whereof the imperfection of the stage machinery rather than the performance is the wretch ed source of amusement.

E g o is t, 153

You wrote it under tremendous stress. Its very imper fections show that.

O cto p u s, 351

PERSONAL — IMPERSONAL

. torn between what he felt as his personal responsibil ity and desire and the vast impersonal necessity of the war machine.

H u llo , 3 6

. they did it in mass formation for an impersonal ideal, whereas Bloom did it for a purely personal reason that nobody will ever know.

F ro m H ere, 5 6 0

P E R T U R B A B L E

— 208 —

p l e a s a n t

PERTURBABLE — IMPERTURBABLE

PERTURBED — UNPERTURBED

His imperturbable and mature calmness was that of an expert in possession of the fact...

J i m , 150

“Not exactly, friend,” replied the imperturbable Rich ard...

C u r io sity , 75

... S. Behrman, the Corporation’s champion, remained upon the field as victor, placid, unperturbed, unassail able.

O ctopu s,	175
Then, as unperturbed as ever, he said...
T om orrow ,	190

POETICAL — U NPOETIC(AL)

Unreasonable to ask for more, and yet — perhaps fun damentally unpoetic.

' E n d , 118

A great	poet,	a really great poet, is the most unpoeti-
cai of	all	creatures.
		P ic tu r e , 82
	PLEASANT — UNPLEASANT
	PLEASANTLY — UNPLEASANTLY
		PLEASE — DISPLEASE
		PLEASING — UNPLEASING
		PLEASURE — DISPLEASURE

An engagement should come on a young girl as a sur

prise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may	be.
I d e a l,	2 9 5

“Really, Barbara, you go on as if religion were a pleas ant subject...” — “ I do not find it an unpleasant

subject, my dear.”

M a jo r, 3 8

P L E A S A N T L Y

— 209 —

P OL ITE

“ Indeed, Lady Culmer,” said Mr. Dale, not unpleas

antly agitated by the interest he excited...

E g o is t, 5 3 9

He stamped his foot and smiled unpleasantly.

Jim, 169

Whether it pleases him or displeases him, I must main tain my rights.

	Bleak,	542
When you know me better, you’ll	be able to tell when
I am pleased or displeased with	more accuracy.
	S p r in g ,	205

The story of your romantic origin, as related to me by

mamma, with unpleasing comments...

Im p o rta n c e , '3 0 3

The nice English don’t get on as well as they ought with them, because Americans are so responsive and the tone of the American voice is not pleasing to the English ear. Or take it the other way round. The nasty Americans don’t get on well with the English

because	the tone	of the English voice is		unpleasing
to them.				E n d , 64
				E n d , 64
...diverting	against	her	all his indignant	displeasure
at Matthew’s sudden			defection...

H a t t e r ’ s, 3 0 9

... he wanted MacGregor to feel his displeasure.

D ip lo m a t, 94

POLITE — IMPOLITE

POLITENESS — IMPOLITENESS

The most impolite person in the room was Asquith.

		D ip lo m a t, 5 1 5
He	was full of	hasty faults and of perverse honesty;
a	young man	often unkindly, often impolite.

A rro w s/n ith , 308

P O L I T E N E S S

- 2 1 0 -

P OTENT

“ ...you will understand that my inquisitiveness is

official, and that I do not intend	impoliteness.” —
“ Politeness is a drop of honey in	a pool of bitter
words. ’ '
	D ip lo m a t , 325

POPULAR — UNPOPULAR

Harris said that he couldn’t help feeling, that, to a certain extent, he had become unpopular.

T h ree, 6 9

I remember poor Charlotte Pagden making herself quite unpopular one season...

W om an, 98

POSSIBLE — IMPOSSIBLE

POSSIBILITY — IMPOSSIBILITY

... they were only books, fairy stories of a fairer and impossible world. But now he had seen that world, possible and real...

E d e n , 61

What you asked is impossible. You must make it pos sible.

Id e a l, 193

Who would have thought, then, of my ever teaching people to dance, of all other possibilities and impossi bilities!

B le a k , 5 5 5

... this	attempt breaks	down completely in view of
the	impossibility of	doing the work without	using
the tunnel...		D . W ., F e b r . 6 ,	1963

POTENT — IMPOTENT

... the maternal instinct that was in her doubted such immediate efficacy in the usually impotent Levenford air,

H a tt e r 's , 120

P OT E N T

- 211

P R E P A R E D

She sprang to her feet, wringing her hands in impotent

wrath.

Lodging, 87

PRACTICAL — IMPRACTICAL

PRACTICABLE — IMPRACTICABLE

For Clyde’s parents had proved impractical in the matter of the future of their children.

T r a g e d y , 17

Would it be possible to gear down a gas turbine for use in automobiles, or was that impracticable.

	T om orrow ,	43
... setting Mrs.	Quilp upon all kinds of arduous and
impracticable	tasks.
	C u r io sity ,	125

PREDICTABLE — UNPREDICTABLE

For a long time he had been rated as more or less unpre

	dictable		but quite academic	‘radical’.
...	a	fear	as unpredictable as a		Tom orrow , 69
				bullet.
					C ru sa d e rs,	262
		PREMEDITATED — UNPREMEDITATED
Just		an accident, unpremeditated			drowning — and	then
	the	glorious future which would			be hisl
					T r a g e d y ,	461
It	was past ten o’clock when			Kate Swift set out		and
	the walk was unpremeditated.				T each er,	115

			PREPARED — UNPREPARED
I	was completely unprepared for this.

J im , 258

P R E P A R E D

2 1 2

P R E T E N T I O U S L Y

Kent nodded his head approvingly, intent on humour ing his strange visitor, but wholly unprepared for the outburst which was to follow his effort to be agree able.

Gash, 69

PRESENTABLE — UNPRESENTABLE

...the absurdity of introducing' to his friends a heavy unpresentable senior as the celebrated gallant Lieu tenant of Marines...

E g o is t, 31

PRESSED — UNPRESSED

This particular collection were men in their unpressed best suits.

D ip lo m a t, 124

He	wore an	ill-fitting, unpressed business suit...
		C ru sa d e rs, 618
	PRETENTIOUS — UNPRETENTIOUS
	PRETENTIOUSLY — UNPRETENTIOUSLY
The	Briery,	Jack Muskham’s residence at Royston,