finishedness

" 'The Unnamable' finished me or exposed my finishedness."

Years of Intensity Gabriel Josipovici 2011

The mature Maritain, in the Mellon Lectures, speaks of finite beauty or finishedness in the work being always incomplete at some level, 'limping' like the biblical Jacob, from the encounter with what cannot be named; achieved art always has 'that kind of imperfection through which infinity wounds the finite'.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 1: Modernism and the Scholastic Revival 2005

He longed, too, for the exquisite finishedness of the mother country, the soft tints of cloud-veiled northern skies.

Australia Felix 2003