But, then again, a good film can still manage to balance both, even imperfectly, and across Don and Phyllis’s string of botched jobs, “Lake George” is more than enough fun in its attempt.

Second, it induces new voter registrations — imperfectly, yes, but perhaps as or more efficiently than, say, a supermarket registration drive.

Yet even if the founding fathers imperfectly practiced separating church and state, they consistently preached it.

The whole world is awash in scammy supplements and overpriced, ineffective diet plans, none of which is subject to the regulation or research requirements that hem in, however imperfectly, the pharmaceutical industry.

The Republican-controlled board’s newest rule allows county officials to delay certification if poll workers comply imperfectly with their long list of new and old rules—irregularities they can call “malfeasant.”