pallor

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

Even miles outside the perimeter, many businesses in Maine's south opted for a self-imposed shutdown, casting an eerie pallor over the state.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 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

Her voice shifting as subtly as her pallor, she conjured to the stage both sides of a sorrowfully confounding mother-daughter relationship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2020

His face, suspended anxiously over hers, had a remarkable pallor of its own now.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Pleasing blushes or pallors are never seen on it.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

By and by appeared the faint lights of the house, with blotchy pallors thinning the mist and darkness.

From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

The paper words seem to bedeck with blossom these shores of pestilence, this Valley of Death, with their countless pallors of barren lies.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray

The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden hearkenings, unstrung me; and when he dropped and broke a dish, I fairly leaped out of my seat.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever the coy earth veils her face With tresses of forest hair; Where polar pallors her blushes efface, Or tropical blooms lend her beauty and grace— I can flutter my plumage there!

From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes