pallor
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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
Such is the pallor of grisly discoveries in Northern Ireland.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
Even miles outside the perimeter, many businesses in Maine's south opted for a self-imposed shutdown, casting an eerie pallor over the state.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 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
“Really?” said Harry, taking a step forward and gazing into the smoothly arrogant face that, for all its pallor, still resembled her sister’s.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Lord of the Flies
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