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The script, by Pamela Gray ( A Walk on the Moon ), has her students complain of her nastiness and perfectionism, but Streep--who has made herself look dumpy, thick-waisted, and bedraggled--is so busy telegraphing her vulnerability that all we get is dippy niceness.
Of course, JQA's paternally instilled perfectionism sparked a lifelong case of clinical depression.
He was "America's first great native born ballet choreographer" (Terry Teachout, Time ). Critics remember his unrelenting perfectionism (some say meanness) and his audacious style, which "typified the make-way-for-youth spirit of the era" (Arlene Croce, The New Yorker ).
Rapid store expansion and "a zeal for perfectionism"--a single air bubble in a pizza's cheese renders the pie substandard.
Pessimists speculated that Jobs' caustic perfectionism would make it hard to hire a good CEO.