pallor

What has many rows of teeth, a terrifying set of jaws and a corpse-like pallor?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024

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

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

In fact she had powdered herself into an otherworldly pallor, which she now tried to fix by powdering herself even more.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

They were all admirable types, with chiselled features and pure lines, warm pallors of complexion of which even the reflections were absorbed by the whiteness of their haiks.

From The Nabob by W. Blaydes

Content in purple lustre clad, Kingly serene, and golden glad; No demi hues of sad contrition, No pallors of enforced submission; Give me such content as this, And keep a while the rosy bliss.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

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

Life has the same pallors and glooms; we are weary of ourselves and of others, we have the sensation of defeat upon defeat, of hopeless struggles, of mortal languors that no faith can lift.

From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Halfway up the hill, which rises from the river bank, and opposite the factory's plateau, appears the white geometry of the castle, and around its pallors a tapestry of reddish foliage, and parks.

From Light by Fitzwater Wray