sunbleached

So the story is full of barechested men wearing loinskirts and makeup, and perfumed women wheeling and dealing, and children with cute little sidelocks, all interacting in a sunbleached city full of incredible stone monuments along the green, green banks of a mighty river.

The Research Readers Don’t See « 2009

His sunbleached hair looked like straw that had been cut with a bowl around his head.

Stalling 2010

In his paintings, the horse was still the primary means of power and transportation in a land of sunbleached rock and sand, enormous skies, cholla, and saguaro cacti, with adobe as its only architecture and Indians and cowboys its only rightful inhabitants.

American Pastoral Raban, Jonathan 2009

Piles of sunbleached lumber and crusted paint cans lie about in patchy, weedy yards, as if people had once hoped to renew their lives, but gave up.

The Spirit Upwelling 2009

I think I need to get my hair sunbleached first though.

New word! ailbhe 2008

There was a length of sunbleached rope tied to a ringbolt set in one corner of the cement.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

In the rocky sunbleached landscape of central Spain, Jesús Aparicio used stone from the site, embedded in concrete, for the massive walls of his Casa del Horizonte, while Rick Joy made three stark plate-steel boxes for the Desert Nomad House and set them at angles, like indestructible relics, in the rugged Arizona desert.

A Certain Sense of Calm 2007

The bone, that white bone, sent his mind spinning—to images of a sunbleached bone in the desert sun, the skeletons of animals long dead.

GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007

Now, though, it was only evident in the faded sunbleached curtains.

The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

Now, though, it was only evident in the faded sunbleached curtains.

The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006