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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Again the spirit, if there is fear, is perturbed and made cold, generates tremors and terrors and pallors in the body.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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