Betta, for instance, is like an enfeebled Emma, with an even paler complexion, and a redness around the eyes that tells of tears either looming or wiped away.
Even sentiments like, "She got lucky he married her despite her [dark] complexion" are still whispered around India in 2017.
The "12 Years A Slave" star lands on our best beauty list for the umpteenth time thanks to her luminous complexion, which she's accentuated this time around with a neutral smokey eye and burgundy lipstick.
First set: Hewitt 5 - 5 Henman* Henman's giving Hewitt the run-around (although, a look at the Australian's complexion does suggests he needs it) and wins to 15! Are we set for an upset?
Mabinty, too, was twice cursed by her complexion: Her chocolate-brown skin has white patches around her neck and chest caused by vitiligo, a skin disease.
His dark complexion was ashen, and there was dried toothpaste around his mouth.
That might have changed the game's complexion, but Blackpool – presumably possessing knowledge that the majority of rivals around them were winning – kept on pressing.
With flowing blonde tresses and eggshell complexion (and I do mean eggshell), her "succubus of Satan" swanks around in drop-dead gowns, pronouncing darkly in a Bette Davis groan.
But Big Brother, like Kevin, can only serve to fuel the cult of personality that has grown up around Shriver, a figure of fascination whose makeup-free complexion has become the female equivalent of Tom Wolfe's statement white suit.
Contemporaries in "The Lincoln Anthology" who observed the Civil War president include Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne ("His complexion is dark and sallow, betokening, I fear, an insalubrious atmosphere around the White House"), the humorist Artemus Ward and the class-struggling correspondent Karl Marx.
