What is "pristine"

Usage examples of "pristine".

The idea of the State resumed its pristine sway in the realm of politics, and parliamentarism, with its chaotic train of election, programs, utopias, and corruption, took its place among the archaic things.

A perfect stanza of iambic pentameter, and the first altar of science had revealed itself in pristine clarity.

Now that there were Japanese living on the Moon, Brind suspected the boxes would stay sealed forever, if only so they could serve as samples of the Moon as it used to be in its pristine, prehuman condition.

Barbarians were engaged, by the liberality of his gifts and promises, to undertake the defence of the Rhine, these expensive and uncertain treaties, instead of restoring the pristine vigor of the Gallic frontier, served only to disgrace the majesty of the prince, and to exhaust what yet remained of the treasures of the republic.

Instead of a domino, she wore a flowing sacque gown of pristine white silk.

Destination spas are usually located in spacious and nurturing settings, such as the pristine islands of Hawaii, the mountains of Colorado, a remote country estate in Vermont, or a spacious manor in Europe, where hydrotherapy techniques such as sauna and whirlpool remain popular.

The tapegrass, she imagined, was like a vast sheet of sterile packaging, preserving the pristine fields and spinnies which slept below.

He wrapped them in surgical tape with such care and style that they looked, even if stitchless and very slightly ovate, almost as pristine as new baseballs, white and clean.

He returned to his pristine desk and picked up the telephoto of Hannah Stern.

A drop of raspberry sauce escaped from the wedge of chocolate terrine, landed on the pristine edge of her plate.

Father, where all her earliest scenes of gayest felicity had passed, but which, of late, she had only approached with terrour, only entered to weep, she experienced a delight almost awful in the renovation of her pristine confidence, and fearless ease.

But what all three share in is that familiar Romantic myth of some primal, pre-abstract level of language which is naturally endowed with greater insight, a pristine order of meaning that enables unmediated understanding, community, and spiritual communion with the world around.

Taras evenly spaced on manicured quarter-acre lots, was so pristine its planners had succumbed to anglophilia and named the subdivision Nottingham Forest.

He wanted to show her the house he was building on Anguilla, toohis first house, one that was being built amid a grove of palm trees on a gorgeous stretch of pristine beach with a breathtaking view of the water.

Kripo official had moved to Munich, Kohl had been offered the chance to take his large four-bedroom apartment in a pristine, linden-lined cul-de-sac off Berliner Street near Charlottenburg.