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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.
Pessimists speculated that Jobs' caustic perfectionism would make it hard to hire a good CEO.
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 ).
Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time.
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.