White face paint can be used to achieve that bloodless look, but it can seem fake if poorly applied.
The setting is a drab northern European city inhabited by hosts of exaggeratedly everyday types – heavy or cadaverous, ugly, careworn, faces daubed in pallid pancake, giving them the bloodless look of extras in a George Romero zombie film.
Students face bloodless, "in one ear and out the other" lessons, as adults focus on test scores.
Camus's French-Algerian hero, sentenced to execution for the murder of an Arab, descends into a bloodless interrogation of life in the face of death.
A surgeon named Grigory does Sisyphean battle ministering to an endless stream of radiation-sickened victims, in the face of indifference or worse as bloodless bureaucrats attend to controlling information and deflecting blame away from the Soviet state.
Far from the seemingly bloodless clones of the Apollo era, the young faces on the screen were as sunny, as animated, as varied, as So Cal itself.
Bloodless and cold, his body is dead while his face is so hotly alive.
The American Collier's Weekly ran a profile that mocked Aberhart's appearance, taking note of his "vast colorless face" and his "narrow, left slanted mouth with soft, extra-heavy, bloodless lips which don't quite meet and through which he breathes wetly".
They face up to life in prison if convicted of taking part in a bloodless campaign that led Necmettin Erbakan to resign as prime minister.
The government now faces a small but vocal opposition that has been emboldened by recent bloodless revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.
