unsullied

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Even in these cases, a particular moral clarity persists: War may be terrible, egos corrupt and violence seductive, but there’s always at least one character whose vision remains unsullied.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

He describes a large rustic loaf “held close to the heart,” sliced toward the body in a communal sacrament, representing an elemental and ancient loaf unsullied by ultra-processing or bleached flour.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025

Recent histories of the Blackwells and the Grimkes have expanded our understanding of how progress is rarely spurred by a single, unsullied person; it takes a multiplicity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2024

If a chut sarang remains a first love and nothing more, it allows for the memory of youth to stay intact and pure, unsullied by the inevitable pain, heartbreak and grief felt in lived relationships.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2023

It hung on a nail near his bed—unfrayed, unsullied after all those years, with only the permanent bend in the fabric made by its long life on a nail.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison