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

Nolan uses the natural sunken quality of Murphy’s cheeks to great effect in “Oppenheimer,” where his gauntness also conveys a mind that cannot stop racing as he considers all the terrifying outcomes of his deeds.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 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

Her beauty had gone to a kind of fragile gauntness.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler