Sentence examples for colour off from inspiring English sources

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"HAMLET" (Act 1, Scene 2) Shakespeare says: QUEEN GERTRUDE: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

A decade ago, the critics of Walter Benn Michaels thought he was doing something similar, playing women and people of colour off against poor white middle America.

Wash the colour off your hair.

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"Tackling the rise and fall of bolshy proto-punk gobshite Ian Dury, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a riot of clattering noise and kaleidoscopic colour, off-kilter imagery and foul language, all the good things the title promises and much more," writes Time Out's Tom Huddleston.

There are ways of dumbing your smartphone down, or turning the bright colours off, or just buying a simple text-and-calls £10 brick and using that instead.

Then, he was at the centre of a media maelstrom that spiralled from off-colour, off-camera comments about a female linesman into a furious row about sexism in sport that ended in the departure of the broadcaster's two biggest names.

No other colour shows off hard-won Barry's Bootcamp bodies quite like it.

The collection shown yesterday exemplified this: dresses were loose but elegant, with the usual chunks of colour, topped off with crystal studding around the neckline.

The previous Palme d'Or winner, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, kicked off exactly a year ago with £142,000 from 52 cinemas, including £8,000 in previews.

Josh Brolin, playing Sportello's LAPD nemesis, looks like he could steal the show with a laugh-out-loud bit of colour shown off here.

With their layered, almost three dimensional worlds of wild colour touched off by subtle, delicate lacy mist, these powerful creations remind me of some of Jackson Pollock's paintings.

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