It looks like someone took all the color out of the fingers, or blanched them.
The beverage has shifted from a rich, locally-produced staple to a blanched, sanitized drink.
The fact that many readers may have blanched at my unqualified appraisal above is central to understanding his predicament.
Even the comedian and social satirist Chris Lilley, of Angry Boys fame, might have blanched at repeating some of her views.
Still, some journalists with no ties to Fox blanched at the controversy.
He blanched when Lewis paid a 40% premium for Fleet, yet stayed onboard and was gratified that the merger worked out so well.
But there is also something worshipful about these blanched, wavering fingers.
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Olam supplied plants in Kerala, where its cashews initially were de-shelled and blanched then exported to companies in Europe and the U.S. that did the roasting.
Solomon quotes the blind writer Deborah Kent, who was dismayed to find that her own mother and her husband blanched at the idea of her giving birth to a blind kid.
Costumed for most of the play in widow's black, her body taut, almost wired, hands stretched, her face blanched with sorrow, she lives every moment of this tragedy with an intensity rarely encountered in the theatre.
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The vegetable's most classic employment is in the cold French salad celerie remoulade, in which the root is peeled, grated, "cooked" in lemon juice (or blanched briefly in acidulated water) to lose a bit of its rawness, then dressed with a mustardy mayonnaise.
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