On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.

It was not knocked over, our khits informed us, but it was full of plaster and mortar, and sundry pieces of brick.

a soleless shoe

Many publicly held companies do have good working conditions, but they often employ mostly high-wage workers or offer different levels of working conditions and benefits to management employees than to workers at the bottom of the ladder.