Writers like Norman Rush and Deborah Eisenberg have long handled politics in their fiction with exceptional sensitivity and intelligence, refracting pristine ideas through the unruly subjectivity of their characters.
Even in its pristine form, the idea as it is originally propagated by Mahathir could be read as a radical attempt at power politics.
Though the birds seem comfortable with their less than pristine neighborhood, the idea is to keep their habitat as quiet as possible.
Lake Tenaya is one of those places, Ms. Solnit says, where the American idea of pristine wilderness was formed.
Our results suggest that use-based framing of conservation is more likely to resonate with these communities than narratives tied to the preservation of pristine nature and emerging conservation ideas of the rewilding of nature.
RESTORING damaged habitats to something like their pristine condition is a relatively recent idea.
Traditionally, office and business interiors were pristine, orderly, and very organized, and the idea of a cluttered appearance would have been anathema to designers.
The idea of wilderness -- of pristine, untouched nature -- is not a universal truth but an idea of Western urban civilization, said Philippe Descola, a leading French anthropologist who has worked among Indian groups in Brazil.
The snares themselves are also very important, so it's a good idea to keep them in pristine condition and try to tighten them so that they are flat all the way across the skin of the drum.
According to McFadden, all the artists selected are transforming the perception of glass as a pristine material: "These artists are really challenging ideas of the traditional beauty of glass," he says.
Altogether richer-sounding than its predecessor, In Ghost Colours is a dizzying whirl of ideas and influences, fusing the pristine majesty of 80s synth pop with vocoders, droning guitar, and Balearic house flourishes.
