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pallor

[pal-er] / ˈpæl ər /


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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

And even from a distance, Clare could see that her skin had gone the color of his tail—a silvery pallor that seemed to mean something very bad.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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 Fuller, Margaret

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 Blaydes, W.

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 Wray, Fitzwater

Night and a crescent moon had wrought their magic, and the garden was a mystery of velvet dusks and ivory pallors.

From The Fortieth Door by Bradley, Mary Hastings

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 Hichens, Robert Smythe



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