Sentence examples for pale canvas from inspiring English sources

Ibtisam is a woman of 50, but she looked 20 years older, her face a pale canvas of anxious lines over her long, black mourning cloak.

Try Givenchy Shadow Show in Star Diamond.; Once you've got a pale canvas, brush highlighter only on the cheekbones, forehead and chin, lest you look too Kabuki.

This pale canvas was also important because Peel admits to "owning a lot of busy things", from intricately printed fabrics to antiques.

In "Biro" (a ubiquitous make of British pen), the speaker progresses from playtime moments ("drew myself a room and lived there") to the "pale canvas of your breasts / white and shining in the / light from the telly," finally shrugging when the "canvass" eventually showers off, "watch[ing] the images slide off your body / and scrabble sadly into the plughole".

And although the idea of this pallid canvas was evidently sincere, it made for a collection that was a pale shadow of Ms. Karan at her most vibrant.

Our tent was made of pale orange canvas, and its aluminum poles had to be put together piece by piece by piece -- an endless process.

Just out of sight, beyond a spattered curtain, was a steel frame, shelves of paint cans and spools of masking tape, the sprayer, and, on another rack, a thick roll of pale raw canvas.

His face, a blank canvas of pale flesh accented by circumflex eyebrows, has a disturbing, masklike aspect.

In Scott Calhoun's "Emperor Gum," an enormous pale bubble jostles the canvas's edges while ambiguous shapes and forms percolate within its translucent, skinlike expanse.

*** The next day, Rudolph arrives with her hair tied back, wearing a pale knitted jumper, jeans and canvas shoes.

Each canvas is a pale five-foot square bearing horizontal bands of watery color separated by penciled lines.