pristine = 'faultless; perfectly executed'

[Jonathan Lighter]

2011 Louis P. Masur _The Civil War: A Concise History_ (N.Y.: OUP) 38: But
there is so much in war that no on can control....Only [Stonewall] Jackson's
campaign [in the Shenandoah Valley] seemed pristine, a model of a general in
perfect command, executed with bravado.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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