blank slate

You’re starting with a blank slate, so you can do something really revolutionary.

This approach was quite different from the normal studio approach to idoldom, wherein idols are trained to be pleasant but mild — to function as blank slates upon which viewers can project their fantasies.

The team in Virginia started with a blank slate, says Robert Orth, a marine biologist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point.

Again, they don’t have this very unique situation that you, or rarely have this unique situation that you can really start from a blank slate.

This is perhaps unsurprising when it comes to men and women who must be somewhat of a blank slate.

While it represented possibility, a blank slate, it also represented an emptiness that needed to be filled.

Beck allows himself to be a blank slate onto which his surprisingly diverse band of followers project their own anxieties.

Obama foreign policy, understandably, is even more of a blank slate.