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This strenuous ambition was confounded by a perfectionism that, as Ellison wrote in the introduction to his volume of essays Shadow and Act , made it somewhat "unreal" to even think of himself as a writer.
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 ).
Of course, JQA's paternally instilled perfectionism sparked a lifelong case of clinical depression.
Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time.
For all McPhee's expertise at crafting a narrative, it feels unnecessarily bloated; for all his famous humility, there's a mild vanity in its fussy perfectionism.