lily white
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I think I get your overall point, but I don't believe it is fully fitting to characterize Evangelicalism as "the lily white religion."
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
June’s lily white face fairly blazed with crimson, and Guy, seeing her confusion, begged her pardon.
From Zula by H. Esselstyn Lindley
Night, guardian of dreams, Now wanders through the land; The moon, a lily white, Blossoms within her hand.
From Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
But if Jackson seemed like an awkward fit for a mostly rural, lily-white state, he nonetheless saw possibilities there.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
It’s a beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature — until now.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2022
Cole’s ascendance as a star is just one example of how romance—which accounts for 23 percent of the U.S. fiction market—has progressed past the lily-white days of yore.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2020
Historically, Disney has been late to break its streak of lily-white content, but the Prouds brought a Black family to the channel.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2020
Quickly those lily-white ankles became covered in mud.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
