paleness

Other times, he comments on Seattle’s distinct culture: “There’s a special paleness of the people here. No one talks to anyone here until it’s summer.”

Their duets had tender lightness, a watercolor’s fresh paleness.

I blink at the paleness of it against my skin, like a tiny bright moon.

“For a woman, the most vulnerable time of the year is swimsuit season,” Ms. Lyons said, ticking off a familiar list of insecurities: body fat, paleness, cellulite, gravity.

Fleming began with some paleness of tone, but grew in command through the evening, past her characteristic propriety to a kind of somber nobility.