She was probably the model for the stunningly erotic nude in Cupid and Psyche, bearing out the remark of a contemporary writer on art that her face was the least beautiful part of a beautiful woman: "though she hath a fair face beyond nature, yet putting off her clothes [she] seemeth to have no face at all, in regard of the other excellencies that were concealed".
Elsa is very skinny, and has a fair face.
It was never selling a fair-face, this self-serving, revisionist hot-take suggests; rather Facebook wants to be accepted as, at best, a sort of utilitarian plug that's on a philanthropic, world-spanning infrastructure quest to stick a socket in everyone.
In Jane Eyre, the unpleasant Blanche Ingram declares that an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation, while men need possess only strength and valour.
He has a particular gift for amusing repartee, and he can do wisdom, too: "I understood there were times when we had to have death and violence," Billy concludes, "just as we had to have sex, or the bright fair face of a child looking straight into ours, or we had to notice, as we fell a thousand feet, what a beautiful morning it was".
He was pointing to a beautiful youngster with black eyes, a journalist reported, "blushing all over her fair face".
A video feature by the Times, published in 2009, describing the life of Malala's family, shows her in her school, a girl with a fair, round face, hazel eyes, carrying a satchel with a Harry Potter picture on it.
Shelgel spun around, his fair face reddening.
They would dangle from the nomological net of physical science and should strike one as implausible excrescences on the fair face of science.
He spent the flying weeks with her and the aged father, learned to love the mountain nymph for her beauty of soul and fair face.
In photographs and news footage of political demonstrations of the 1960s, Tariq Ali is unmistakeable: the thick black hair and thatchy moustache; the clenched fist and characteristic surge to the foreground amid a sea of fair faces.
