faint pink colors

Literary analysis:

The color “faint pink” in literature is often employed to evoke subtle, ephemeral shifts in mood and setting—from personal emotions to natural phenomena. Authors use it to illustrate delicate human reactions, such as a gentle blush on a character’s cheeks ([1], [2], [3]), suggesting a quiet inner stirring or vulnerability. At the same time, faint pink frequently appears in descriptions of the early hours of the day or atmospheric transitions—a soft tint spreading across the sky at dawn or dusk ([4], [5], [6], [7], [8])—which lends an air of gentle beauty and transience to the landscape. In some texts, the hue is even applied in technical descriptions, as when it marks the precise endpoint in a chemical titration ([9], [10], [11]), thereby underlining its role as a subtle yet discerning shade in diverse literary contexts.

A faint pink had come up in his cheeks.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy
Molly lowered her eyes, a faint pink color stole into her cheeks.
— from Girls New and Old by L. T. Meade
Her cheeks had a faint pink flush on them that made her suddenly beautiful.
— from Dross by Henry Seton Merriman
As the first faint pink tinged the eastern sky Myles Cabot shook off the leaves and completed the ascent.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley
The sun was still warm; there was a faint pink light in the sky— a perfume of lilac in the air from the window-boxes and flower-barrows.
— from An Amiable Charlatan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
The faint pink of the sky grew brighter.
— from Love Insurance by Earl Derr Biggers
And there was the gray mist creeping up between the trees, and the lamps glimmering in the distance, and the faint pink glow had not yet died away.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
The sky in front of me was tinged with a faint pink.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Run in from a burette decinormal sodic hydrate, to a faint pink color.
— from The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes by Rena Sarah Eckman
The alkali is added, drop by drop, from a graduated burette until a faint pink color appears.
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom
When a faint pink color remains after thoroughly agitating the flask the end point is reached.
— from Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Edgar George Thomssen

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