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The typical modern player is a lone, distant figure, emerging to issue platitudes about remaining in the moment, taking it one game at a time, the language itself sanded down to an anodyne pallor.
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Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
The Bride of Frankenstein would be nothing without her towering updo, just as skeletons don’t have the same creepy effect without bone-white pallor and toothy grin.
—Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2024
What has many rows of teeth, a terrifying set of jaws and a corpse-like pallor?
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
The Collegeville outfit came with the mask of a scowling pirate with an open eye-patch that looked more like a black eye and a sickly green pallor that would shiver the timbers of the saltiest sea dog.
—René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
The Bride of Frankenstein would be nothing without her towering updo, just as skeletons don’t have the same creepy effect without bone-white pallor and toothy grin.
—Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2024
What has many rows of teeth, a terrifying set of jaws and a corpse-like pallor?
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
The Collegeville outfit came with the mask of a scowling pirate with an open eye-patch that looked more like a black eye and a sickly green pallor that would shiver the timbers of the saltiest sea dog.
—René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Pallor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallor. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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