pallor
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His last film role had been as the sinister Mystery Man, with a vampire pallor and no eyebrows, in David Lynch’s dreamlike 1997 thriller “Lost Highway.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
Lyra thought his outline was lost almost at once against the pallor of the snow-covered ground, but it might have been that her eyes were full of tears.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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 harkenings, unstrung me; and when he dropped and broke a dish, I fairly leaped out of my seat.
From Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson
The flushes and pallors chased each other over her face, and the sight of her pleasure in being beautiful charmed Staniford.
From The Lady of the Aroostook by William Dean Howells
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
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
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Lord of the Flies
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