Sentence examples for having the complexion of from inspiring English sources

And Lord Curzon: "Someone described him as having the complexion of a milkmaid and the stature of Apollo.

Like Sunraider, Coleman Silk, the hero of Philip Roth's 2000 novel "The Human Stain," is a chameleonic black man (he's described as having the complexion of eggnog) who shifts to white and rises to a position of power — now a classics professor, he was formerly the dean of faculty at a small New England college — but whose world begins to crash down around him because of racism.

He has the complexion of a mushroom.

I should have left my blackheads alone - I have the complexion of a winged crab attack victim.

But I've had to revise that picture, because as the demographics of Italy have changed, so has the complexion of its churchgoers.

Sperry's profile also ensnares my older brown-skinned son, who wears a very short haircut, may wear cologne at times, and has the complexion of many men I have seen in Africa and the Middle East.

Flaubert writes of the aristocrats who awe Emma at the château, "They had the complexion of wealth," a deceptive blush of youth fed on "a moderate diet of exquisite delicacies".

He has the complexion of a man who doesn't spend a lot of time outdoors during daylight, and speaks in the modulated tones of someone accustomed to talking while others are asleep.

The doctor — possibly the same one who later gave Kuczynski the yam lip — was ten years my senior, and had clear, translucent skin that glistened pinkly, like prosciutto that had been sliced to an inviting, tissue-paper thinness, and she said that if I, too, started undergoing facial peels I could have the complexion of a woman half my age by the time I hit forty).

I have the complexion of a button mushroom and live in south London, which means bike riding is a necessity.

He had the complexion, lightly webbed, of outdoor living and indoor drinking, and was a high, handsome man who might have been cruel.