gauntness

Example Sentences

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But catch his cameo in "Satyricon"; you’ll see the haunted gauntness in his eyes and know that, for two decades, he was also killing himself with food.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2024

Nadia catches a glimpse of her body in the mirror in the London mansion, unfamiliar in its gauntness and hairier than she’d like.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2017

His features were familiar, but they lacked the compelling gauntness or the special light in the eyes that had transfixed a generation of bobbysoxers.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2016

Such archness is kind of reassuring, especially given Vivian’s gallows gauntness and pallor.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012

He might have been handsome if not for a certain hungry gauntness and the way the lids of his eyes cloaked the top of each iris.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson