Sentence examples for livid white from inspiring English sources
I said the pimple was like a livid white area on a bright-red Rothko.
A livid white plaster head on a pedestal ambiguously leering out of the corner of its eye gives the composition extra eeriness.
His citation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 "His swarthy features blanched to a livid gray" -- with blanched meaning "turned white" -- clinches the primary meaning for me: "pale, drained of color".
In the fine maritime painting "Pier at Dordrecht Harbor," for example, ships are bathed in a pearly sun-shower luminosity, while in "The Maas at Dordrecht in a Storm," more or less the same scene is filled with the sooty darkness of a breaking storm, with livid streaks of yellow-white paint -- lightning -- swiping across the sky.
With ease, Kelman's narrative moves away from his previous settings in Scotland and England and focuses on the realities of a country in which the divisions between black and white are livid and dangerous.
Initially livid, after several months the striae become ivory white and firm because of the formation of scar tissue.
Small wonder that Ms. White and other current and former law enforcement officials are said to be livid.
So he's livid about Dornick, the only resident on posh South Mill Street who won't paint his house white.
Here she is, bald — lifting the squeaky flap of her white rubber bathing hat to tuck out of sight strands of her livid hair.
The wound was livid and ridged and ran the length of her white front, from the ribs to the hidden places below.
