pallor

His last film role had been as the sinister Mystery Man, with a vampire pallor and no eyebrows, in David Lynch’s dreamlike 1997 thriller “Lost Highway.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

Somewhere, looking out from the shadow, I seemed to see the high lights of the Count’s evil face, the ridge of the nose, the red eyes, the red lips, the awful pallor.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Halfway up the hill, which rises from the river bank, and opposite the factory's plateau, appears the white geometry of the castle, and around its pallors a tapestry of reddish foliage, and parks.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

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 Howells, William Dean

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

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

Congo gleams, college boy pallors, the smiles of black and white men and women interlace.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben