pallor
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If you know anything about Burton’s movies, you know that they tend to feature characters who embody all the qualities of a sickly Victorian-era child: waifish, sunken doe-eye and gaunt faces with a deathlike pallor.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024
Such is the pallor of grisly discoveries in Northern Ireland.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
A key problem is the lighting - a single overhead source, which gives the images a slightly garish sheen and each person's skin an unhealthy pallor.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2023
Here, too, the mood couldn’t have been more different from the year prior, when the slap cast a pallor on the celebration.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023
Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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Lord of the Flies
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