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  • Here we have something of an abstract exhibit: mutable imagery cuts to a bleached-out shore that suggests a cold sensation we may feel after death.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009

  • My memories of growing up in the Eighties have the bleached-out quality of degraded TV footage.

    The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr 2011

  • In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse.

    India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011

  • He inhabits a world where the kids in council estate stairwells don't dodge needles, they dance; young lovers have permits to build tree houses in public spaces and bands are born in bleached-out suburban garages, not public schools.

    The Hard Sell: Coca-Cola 2011

  • Where the forest met the shore, he found a bleached-out log for them to sit on.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • This will likely include many of the packaged and bottled foods in your house, notably anything with added sugars (fattening for the figure and no friend to the complexion); trans fats (terrible for the heart; and really bad for the skin); bleached-out albino white stuff like white rice, white pasta, and white bread (because the unnatural whiteness is a good indication that the great nutrients have been engineered out).

    THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010

  • The backwoods hillbilly segment used a bleached-out look similar to the look of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

    Summer School (2006) 2010

  • This will likely include many of the packaged and bottled foods in your house, notably anything with added sugars (fattening for the figure and no friend to the complexion); trans fats (terrible for the heart; and really bad for the skin); bleached-out albino white stuff like white rice, white pasta, and white bread (because the unnatural whiteness is a good indication that the great nutrients have been engineered out).

    THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010

  • This will likely include many of the packaged and bottled foods in your house, notably anything with added sugars (fattening for the figure and no friend to the complexion); trans fats (terrible for the heart; and really bad for the skin); bleached-out albino white stuff like white rice, white pasta, and white bread (because the unnatural whiteness is a good indication that the great nutrients have been engineered out).

    THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010

  • Where the forest met the shore, he found a bleached-out log for them to sit on.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

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