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

He had got very white, his pallor dry and talcumy as a chalk drawing on rough paper.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me; and when he dropped and broke a dish, I fairly leaped out of my seat.

From Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Pleasing blushes or pallors are never seen on it.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden hearkenings, unstrung me; and when he dropped and broke a dish, I fairly leaped out of my seat.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson

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 Fitzwater Wray