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
Lips as red as pomegranates And a curved nose lily white, Limbs as slender and as cool As some green oasis-palm.
From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine
Kendall's pose of lily white virtue amuses me.
From Possessed by Cleveland Moffett
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
No longer a caricature of a rich lily-white County, it’s 40% non-Hispanic white, 34% Hispanic, 21.7% Asian and 2.1% Black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
In college, I underwent a political awakening fueled by social justice rallies, American studies classes, and getting the hell out of my lily-white small town.
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2019
In one upper pocket of his jacket was arrayed a variety of pens and pencils; in the other nestled a lily-white handkerchief whose presence was more decorative than utilitarian.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
