He wants them to allow for small imperfections that the audience might not notice but could sense, could feel.

The small imperfection didn't seem like much of a flaw to Sulu.

Then small imperfections are betrayed by swirls in the water.

Are you the kind of person who will obsess over (or even notice) small imperfections?

The small imperfections did not matter; the genuineness of the effort did.

The mirror's surface is very precise and small imperfections in the cylinder's shape do not affect it.

When a small imperfection showed up on the first samples of the computer's cases, he flew to Chicago to work with the die maker.

Her hand picked at a small imperfection in the quilt.

I was close enough to see the small imperfections in her eyeliner.

But these were small imperfections compared with the Liberal Party's policies, he said.