This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence.

Someone who spoke in syntactically perfect sentences and glided like a mech on ball bearings?

Thrilling like her first time on skis, she said, or writing a perfect sentence.

He may know fifteen ways to kill someone with a flipper, but he can't be expected to talk in perfect sentences.

Mr. White's perfect sentences are alive and well.

The correct word, the true phrase, the perfect sentence are always 'out there' somewhere; the writer's task is to locate them by whatever means he can.

It broke my heart to hear the words coming out so jumbled, from lips that never uttered a less than perfect sentence.

We need not wonder, then, if perfect sentences are rare, and perfect pages rarer.

He answered in perfect long sentences, punctuated by the occasional burst of disconcerting laughter.

But since most people do not speak in crisp and perfect sentences, verbatim quotations can often make the speaker seem less than articulate.