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  • She also apologized for having run out of the flesh colored adhesive she usually used for them and having to use a too-white version.

    08 « May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

  • Major Woodruff's thesis is that the white-skinned, blue-eyed Aryan, born to government and command, ever leaving his primeval, overcast and foggy home, ever commands and governs the rest of the world and ever perishes because of the too-white light he encounters.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • She also apologized for having run out of the flesh colored adhesive she usually used for them and having to use a too-white version.

    Movie Review – Star Trek (Take 1) 2009

  •  A mountain of soiled clothing had been piled in the middle of the room like some collection of bat guano, capped with a too-white unused underwear still encased in its plastic envelope.

    Who Lives on Barriedale Road? 2010

  • The writer wanted to speak for everyone, and for every era: there he is, there she is, each alone in a room, facing the too-white mirror of the blank page, beneath the lampshade distilling its secret light.

    Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture 2008

  •             I was still a boy, though, and three days later I was a boy on the front steps of her two-bedroom house with my cousin Ramon, who had been making fun of my fat and my voice and my too-white skin since I got there.

    Bloody Knuckles 2009

  • I was still a boy, though, and three days later I was a boy on the front steps of her two-bedroom house with my cousin Ramon, who had been making fun of my fat and my voice and my too-white skin since I got there.

    Bloody Knuckles Jared Ward 2009

  • And while it has been a terrorizing streak, it has been easy to nail down, mostly because the too-white Republicans, the vice-president who runs the country and the puppet president who runs the liquor cabinet could care less about being accused of sheer hypocrisy.

    Scott Thill: Democrats, Admit It: We're Idiots 2008

  • It is in the painful summertime when the dogrose closes its eye, the hard summertime with the nests without eggs, when you shy away in the twilight under the whitebeams, when the brook whispers good night in the middle of the day, where you glimpse the too-white calf and the dog with his inside-out skin.

    Artur Lundkvist greenintegerblog 2008

  • “J-Dub”, on the other hand, is without doubt an ethnic slur, coined by Syrians to refer to their style-less, religiously-looney, too-white Ashkenaz cousins.

    The Heirs of Slytherin | Jewschool 2007

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