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“The lights are so strong they highlight skin blemishes and have been successful in moving on youths from troublespots who view pink as being “uncool.””
“Yet this parliamentary democracy, with all its blemishes, is something in which Winston Churchill put implicit trust, as did his prececessors and successors.”
“I am the kind of person who a.) has enough skin blemishes/marks, and b.) would probably regret making something permanent on my body.”
“But, Dr. Vincent said, the university is pondering whether the dorm's name blemishes the school's reputation and compromises the public trust.”
The Wall Street Journal: Dorm That Honors Klansman Sparks Debate
“Not really; OED references show it referred to a wide range of skin blemishes.”
“For, though they can hardly be called blemishes, they are certainly not the great beauties of his work; or, at least, if they are, their anachronistic charm cannot be emphasised unless the play is accurately mounted according to its proper date.”
“The degenerate representatives of a once noble institution could not perhaps be expected to admit their degeneracy, and confess themselves, as they really were, collectively incompetent; yet the defence which they brought forward would have been valid only so long as the blemishes were the rare exceptions in the working of an institution which was still generally beneficent.”
“The ever-classy Gawker refers to "blemishes," etc. and calls the photo "remarkably unflattering.”
“A New York Times editorial denounced McCain for the "subliminal racism" of having a piece of darkly-colored skin removed from his white face, while The New Republic wrote, "Hitler wanted to remove so-called 'blemishes' from society, too.”
“Groundwork had already been done for them by magazines, which do not morph features, but do remove "blemishes" and control features.”
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