"It's a kind of truth that every artist is confronted with: a bare canvas and the fear you're going to ruin that pristine surface."
Don't expect a pristine surface a year later.
Ramsey trudged through the snow, half-blinded by the brilliant sun flashing from its pristine surface into his eyes.
But with its pristine surface and fresh colors it looks as bright as a new penny.
The key advantage of this technique as compared to the float glass process is the pristine surfaces, not touched by molten tin.
This is often the case for pure ("pristine surface") oxides in water.
Maybe it's a fear of marring a pristine surface with a nail, or perhaps it's simply uncertainty about what to place where.
Eve laid them on the pristine surface of the desk.
It's all classic columns, cornices and pristine surfaces, without much of anything (at least, that I could understand) happening in the foreground.
He imagined seeing stars above his room, a blizzard of tiny lights that showered across the open night sky on Ix's pristine surface.