"Summer isn't the best time here," Todd Christy, the owner of the Chilmark Coffee Company, said in the midst of his spotless, state-of-the-art laboratory, full of oddly shaped glass pots and cylinders, evidence of an obsession with coffee roasting.
The monks entertain a constant stream of retreatants, guests and sightseers while cooking for themselves and caring for their aged and infirm in a spotless state-of-the-art infirmary.
"Having been taught about its glorious and spotless past by the state rhetoric for decades, people feel that they could not have possibly done such a terrible thing".
At the neighboring table, a couple of meat market foremen in spotless white coats sniffily appraise my state.
At the neighbouring table, a couple of meat market foremen in spotless white coats sniffily appraise my state.
For the past decade Leopold's Schieles have been safely enshrined by the Austrian state in a purpose-built, spotless white palace, where they are all the more discomfiting, rebellious and relatable.
The nuclear industry is one whose record for safety and transparency is very far from spotless, and reviving it will require, besides big spending, nanny-state levels of government regulation.
It's a skill that doesn't get much respect these days, as a drive through the state's $500,000 neighborhoods will tell you -- lawns are spotless, garages pristine; nothing is squirreled away because it's easier to buy new.
But then, they said proudly, this is state-of-the-art bingo: the floors are marble and, despite the crowds, spotless.
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actor blasted a controversial new California vaccine law that requires the majority of children in the state to be vaccinated in order to attend public or private school.
But it is not clear that the West's record is spotless: files leaked by Mr Snowden also suggest that American spies were keenly interested in Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil firm.Here, the question is one of motives.
