SCARCELY a pillar of the British establishment has been left unstained in recent weeks.
Like Bill Clinton but with an unstained character—he has perfected the art not of orating but of addressing each listener, in the auditorium or on television, as if he or she were the favoured recipient of an individual confidence.
Specimens can be observed either after they have been stained by one of several techniques to highlight some morphological characteristics or in living, unstained preparations as a "wet mount".
We were heading back towards the city now: "The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
Biological materials may be killed, dyed so that their structure can be seen, and mounted on glass slides for photographing by transmitted light using ordinary light microscopes; or, by using ultraviolet, infrared, electron, or X-ray microscopes, sharp photographs can be made of living, unstained specimens.
If any person deserves to be on the List, it is Tiny, a creature who has evolved into the perfect mooching machine, leaving no glass undrained or napkin unstained by chicken skewer residue.
Yemelianenko and Monson were of a rough equivalence: heads shaved, two enormous sacks of rocks, though the Russian was distinguished by his unstained skin; Monson had tattoos from ankle to neck, including two in crowd-friendly Cyrillic — svoboda and solidarnost'.
The top was of unstained spruce, arched like the top of a violin.
It's covered in unstained strips of oak, and it looks a little like the way the Guggenheim Museum might look had Frank Lloyd Wright specified oversized matchsticks for the exterior rather than painted concrete.
Only those who had never been on a real battlefield asked for unstained virtue and unblemished deeds.
