How To Use Pallor In A Sentence

  • It is an uncomfortable feeling to find in her sickness the conventions of beauty - boniness and pallor.
  • When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill.
  • He also took to donning a white greasepaint visage, designed to mimic the pallor of 13 th-century plague victims.
  • Whitman has produced music that (particularly as a collection) neither fetishizes the scholarly pallor of early electronic music nor attempts to radically recast the tools or to play clever games with them.
  • At his watchful distance, her pallor was a beacon, a broadcast resonance. The Best American Erotica 2006
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  • Her skin had a ghastly gray pallor, with dark smudges of sleeplessness under her eyes.
  • Every size and color of the human spectrum was represented: young and old; men and women; black, white, and brown; bloated and emaciated; tattooed and unscarred; hairy and bald; well-endowed and not—all lying stiffly in the pale pallor of death. Law of Attraction
  • Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character. London River
  • It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions. This week's new exhibitions
  • So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications. Murder at Bridge
  • The skin and mucous membranes should be inspected for cyanosis, pallor, ecchymoses, telangiectasia, gingivitis, or evidence of bleeding from the oral or nasal mucosa.
  • Her pallor was pale, and her eyes, large, dark and profoundly sad, as if from years of suffering.
  • The deathly pallor of her skin had been replaced by the faintest flush of color.
  • _anger_ there is a kind of tetanic contraction of all the capillaries, causing extreme pallor, and the expulsion of an extra quantity of bile from the liver. Spontaneous Activity in Education
  • But Marguerite Verne listened to her mother's eulogism with a calm despair, and, save the pallor of her lips, no one could tell the suffering within. Marguerite Verne
  • Her face still had the terrible pallor but it was not the alabaster whiteness of her mother's, more the ghastliness of unsuccessful junket. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • A sleepless night had added to her pallor.
  • She quickly assessed the young man, the pallor of the police officer's face and gentled her tone as she asked, ‘Can you tell me what you saw, please?’
  • The intense pallor of his complexion, tightly cropped ginger hair, and prominent Adam's apple, only emphasised his lack of stature.
  • a deathly pallor
  • Over the rolling, variegated hills, where virulent yellow rape seed mingles with brown arable land and verdant fruit farms, a grey, murky pallor is cast.
  • His yellow pallor gave him a jaundiced look; his beard was unbrushed, his cap askew.
  • Vomiting may be preceded by nausea, which is often accompanied by increased autonomic nervous system activity, involving salivation, sweating, pallor, and low blood pressure.
  • The infant should be assessed for pallor, petechiae, extravasated blood, excessive bruising, hepatosplenomegaly, weight loss, and evidence of dehydration.
  • She had a compensatory pallor, and when she reached out, vaguely patting at my little brothers, she did it with fingers like rolled dough. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • Small and rather shy, Madison usually dressed in black, had the bookish pallor of a scholar, and cut a somber figure.
  • The pallor is the pallor of hardship, often of the lack of the right kind of nourishment, but the stillness is not the result of inward personal calm and peace. A Circuit Rider's Wife
  • My face had the hospital pallor, and, with my long hair and beard, I know I looked "snaggy" like a potato that has been forgotten in a dark corner of the cellar. Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany
  • Pallor and abdominal colic were the symptoms reported most often by the parents.
  • His beard was already threaded with grey stubble and his skin had an unnatural pallor.
  • a dead pallor
  • Several other events have acted to reignite the old problem known as phthisis, consumption, or the white plague (named for the pallor it causes).
  • The neurohypophysis was replaced by fibrotic tissue containing perivascular macrophages and activated microglia, and in the cerebellum, there were large areas of myelin pallor.
  • His yellow pallor gave him a jaundiced look; his beard was unbrushed, his cap askew.
  • Ivan Nastiklof was there, hanging over a basin, vying with its pallor, muttering to himself and disliking what he heard. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • He had a pale pallor and his flesh did not seem to absorb any heat from the flames licking at the brick of the fire place.
  • At the mention of his name Tarzan had noted the sickly pallor that overspread the features of the Hun. Tarzan the Untamed
  •   She usually billed more hours than just about anyone else, which accounted for her deathlike pallor. Zombie, Attorneys at Law
  • Hegar considers that in women an injurious result follows the nonsatisfaction of the sexual impulse and of the "ideal feelings," and that symptoms thus arise (pallor, loss of flesh, cardialgia, malaise, sleeplessness, disturbances of menstruation) which are diagnosed as "chlorosis. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
  • He has a tendency to lose his temper and order God to curse people with his skin pallor. McCain:
  • The pallor might be the result of emotion, or it might be natural. Through the Wall
  • The main symptoms of anaemia are tiredness and pallor.
  • She has not repeated her belief that we are cursed, but there is something about the darkness of her eyes and the pallor of her face that tells me she is hagridden. The White Queen
  • Until then, only workmen sported tans: anybody with pretensions cultivated a pallor.
  • Kate could hardly remember now the dry rigid pallor of the heat, when the whole earth seemed to crepitate viciously with dry malevolence: like memory gone dry and sterile, hellish. The Plumed Serpent
  • Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle.
  • And so, once again, the Democrats reaped the bitter harvest of their own pallor and incompetence.
  • They've taken on a pebbledash pallor - a medley of cellulite, mosquito bites and dryness. Times, Sunday Times
  • But today seedy glamour is being replaced by the dim light of computer screens and the unhealthy pallor of those who stare into them for most of their waking hours.
  • Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
  • It begins adagio, and soon an odd pallor settles over the piece.
  • Even though Freeman's lovely caramel pallor is at odds with these facts, he nonetheless projects the necessary authority to play America’s most-celebrated military and civil leader. Morgan Freeman Is Nelson Mandela In ‘Invictus’… Here Are Five More Historical Figures He Should Play » MTV Movies Blog
  • Inspiratory stridor, with or without intercostal recession, pallor, with or without cyanosis with cough and "croupy" voice. Chapter 7
  • Even the brightest Moonlight induces pallor in each face it illuminates, and creates shadows like oubliettes, where all who enter disappear.
  • I am now down to eight and a half stone and have a sickly pallor.
  • Bob Loder was a swarthy, heavily built, square-faced man with a blotched skin and unhealthy pallor and small, discouraged eyes. She Closed Her Eyes
  • The skin and mucous membranes should be inspected for cyanosis, pallor, ecchymoses, telangiectasia, gingivitis, or evidence of bleeding from the oral or nasal mucosa.
  • So what if journalists poke fun at its more superficial aspects - the cut of the suits, the pallor of the skin, the stains on the shirts?
  • My energy levels appear to be rising and my skin is losing its papery pallor and feels softer.
  • Something about the powdery pallor, the intelligent brow, the drowsing accent. ZOMBIES ARE NOT THE NEW VAMPIRES: THEY DON’T SUCK | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • A pallor had invaded her face and the skin had roughened, signs of wear which she had attempted to cover in excessive layers of cosmetics. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • She could even see it in this thing, the pallor of it, the fine dust of jet black fur.
  • There were dark circles under his eyes, and his skin took on a pale pallor.
  • The physical examination demonstrated pallor, hypotension and tachycardia.
  • It was anger that had seized Mrs. Strickland, and her pallor was the pallor of a cold and sudden rage. Moon and Sixpence
  • His yellow pallor gave him a jaundiced look; his beard was unbrushed, his cap askew.
  • The treated limb will show patchy areas of pallor caused by arteriolar constriction.
  • Apart from her pallor, she looked every inch the successful wife of the town's top lawyer. JUST BETWEEN US
  • Philpot's face, they were softened down by the pallor of death, and a placid, peaceful expression pervaded his features. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • So long as you don't have to look at the graveyard pallor of the rest of my body this is great.
  • It coated the world in a pale flurry, casting a ghostlike pallor and creating moon shadows among the skeletons of trees.
  • Her pallor became pale with the pain and the corners of her mouth stiffened.
  • The figure of Christ, his sepulchral pallor set off by a shroud of tender pink, confronts the viewer with awesome directness.
  •   He had even seen them: affectless men and women with a deathlike pallor, high nasal voices, and the characteristic drooping at the chin. Zombie, Attorneys at Law
  • I assumed her pallor was the result of being indoors all the time and that the blue vein that beat wildly at her temple was a kind of inner metronome. Middlesex
  • For there were roses everywhere -- great snowy bouquets and long lines of scattered blossoms, and single roses there and here, and the petals falling were as tears shed for the beautiful dead, and the white flowerage vied with the pallor and the immaculate stillness of the dead. Celibates
  • Yesterday we spent the morning at the beach, where I did my best to avoid ruining my library pallor while Margaret toasted herself.
  • Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
  • Later, they would fall out over Louisa's desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the "cadaverous" pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband's puritan sensibilities. The Harvard Crimson | All Articles
  • It coated the world in a pale flurry, casting a ghostlike pallor and creating moon shadows among the skeletons of trees.
  • He did look awful; the shadows beneath his eyes were even darker this morning in contrast to the pallor of his face.
  • Her face still had the terrible pallor but it was not the alabaster whiteness of her mother's, more the ghastliness of unsuccessful junket. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • Other symptoms include facial flushing or pallor, tenderness on palpation of the ipsilateral carotid artery, bradycardia, and abnormal feeling of scalp hairs.
  • The residue of the hideous past days and nights was in the slightly swollen lids, and the deathly pallor of her cheeks. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • He hadn't been well and now his skin had a sickly pallor to it. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • The treated limb will show patchy areas of pallor caused by arteriolar constriction.
  • Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a sickly pallor and shadows under his eyes.
  • The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle's complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness. August 19th, 2008
  • My pallor attracted their tut-tutting sanction, and caused them to recommend the red meat that never passed their own lips. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • He had the pallor of a corpse; he had little color to him.
  • Please, most of us know what is going on in Mexico without the negative intravenous feeding continuously discoloring the pallor of MC atmosphere. Safety in Michoacan
  • Her face still had the terrible pallor but it was not the alabaster whiteness of her mother's, more the ghastliness of unsuccessful junket. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • It's the place where day becomes night, and everyone leaves with an unhealthy pallor.
  • We both, she and I, took after our mother, were broad shouldered, strongly built, and capable of endurance, but her pallor was a sign of ill-health; she often had a cough, and I sometimes caught in her face that look one sees in people who are seriously ill, but for some reason conceal the fact. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
  • No emotion showed on Dempster's impassive face, only a slight pallor in his normally ruddy complexion.
  • A rosy flush swept the pallor of fear from her face.
  • There is, for some reason, something especially grim about pubs near stations, a very particular kind of grubbiness, a special kind of pallor to the pork pies. So long, and thanks for all the fish
  • Over the rolling, variegated hills, where virulent yellow rape seed mingles with brown arable land and verdant fruit farms, a grey, murky pallor is cast.
  • It has a pallor not only appropriate to her imagery but necessary to it.
  • the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor
  • Instead, they stay put and give skin an unhealthy pallor and texture.
  • We couldn't believe how like a waxwork he looked: thin and weirdly out of date with his white coat on, talking on an old-fashioned telephone, with a corpselike pallor. Tarnish and Style: Why I Like Venice, part 1
  • They've taken on a pebbledash pallor - a medley of cellulite, mosquito bites and dryness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some patients have target-like lesions, with each lesion consisting of a central punctate hemorrhage surrounded by circumferential regions of pallor and hemorrhage.
  • Her large eyes, like her hair, were brown; they had the peculiar look of near-sighted eyes which is called mooning; her complexion was of a dark pallor. The Rise of Silas Lapham
  • There is a feral quality about him: he has the pallor of someone who is never long separated from a drink or a Marlboro Light, which it turns out he isn't.
  • Seen close, she's even more pale than she appeared under club lights two nights ago, and there's a bloodlessness to that pallor that I've never seen but have heard described.
  • A cough, a curse, and a bandy-legged figure with a ghoulish pallor and medieval dentistry emerges from the gloom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Below them a sumptuous overspill of nasturtiums distends from the orange blazon of their open flowers, and then from the horned bright outbursts of their incipient bloom, to the citrine pallor of their unfolding buds.
  • On examination, only pallor of mucosae and chronic orange‐purple tibial skin maculae were present.
  • Anger had flushed her cheeks, taking away the pallor of fear. AMBERBEACH
  • For there were roses everywhere -- great snowy bouquets, and long lines of scattered blossoms, and single roses there and here, and petals fallen and falling were as tears shed for the beautiful dead, and the white flowerage vied with the pallor and the immaculate stillness of the dead. A Mere Accident
  • Do this by wasting money every two weeks on at least one expensive rouge lipstick that, once you have left the shop, turns out to be too berry, too Royal Mail-box red, too silt puddle brown or too zany raspberry for your skin pallor. Slap shtick: How not to put on make-up
  • Add to these detractions from her loveliness, viz: thinness and pallor, that her expression betokened earnest thought rather than gayety or sweetness, and the reader need not be surprised that people did not usually consider Hope a beauty, though we were captivated by her looks, even before we formed her acquaintance. Then and Now;--Or,--Hope's First School
  • It was eerie to watch the contour of the arc break, die away into a delicate pallor and reillumine in a travelling riband. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Prince Zilah, wandering solitary in the midst of crowded Paris, was possessed by one thought, one image impossible to drive away, one name which murmured eternally in his ears -- Marsa; Marsa, who was constantly before his eyes, sometimes in the silvery shimmer of her bridal robes, and sometimes with the deathly pallor of the promenader in the garden of The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Oxygen saturation should be assessed by pulse oximetry in children with respiratory distress, significant tachypnea, or pallor.
  • The figure is painted on a plain brown background and thus the focus of the whole work falls on the dark garment and the pallor of the hand and face.
  • His face has the pallor of someone allergic to daylight.
  • In real life the woman is a performance artist distinguished by her striking pallor, but in this portrait she exists as a shadowy and mysterious character.
  • Inanity dogs the footsteps of the classic tradition, which is everywhere lackeyed, through a long decline, by the pallor of reflected glories. Style
  • Some women used belladonna to pale their complexions to a ghostly pallor but Antonia's mother had forbidden this, fearing her daughter's health.
  • All this blueness is in contrast to the pallor of his complexion and the beginnings of a beard and mustache.
  • The neurohypophysis was replaced by fibrotic tissue containing perivascular macrophages and activated microglia, and in the cerebellum, there were large areas of myelin pallor.
  • No individuals have ever been prosecuted, so these satellites have what's called the pallor of respectability.
  • His eyes were dim with pleasure long drawn out; they saw nothing, and it was some moments before the pallor and pain of Frank's face dispelled the melliferous Mike Fletcher A Novel
  • His epicene beauty and use of cosmetics to cover hypochondriacal pallor prompted Pope's spiteful brilliance of ‘Let Sporus tremble’.
  • He did look awful; the shadows beneath his eyes were even darker this morning in contrast to the pallor of his face.

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