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

What gives some strawberries such a ghostly pallor?

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

Except for the bluish pallor there was little difference.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

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

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 darkness of the groves which sheltered the course of the Kephisos contrasted strongly with the flying pallors and seemed at enmity with them.

From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens

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