Without spending much time in the sun, the prime minister nonetheless manages to keep pastiness at bay.

Two glittering holes in the pastiness of my face.

It didn't look a hell of a lot better and only served to highlight the pastiness of her features.

Saliva forcefully oozed through the dry pastiness of my mouth.

Each grain of rice remained distinct, without the pastiness of overcooking.

Plus, there is the general pastiness of pastel: its texture often gets noticed before the subject matter, and not every subject is fit for it.

There was a shiftiness to their eyes, a pastiness to their complexions, that spoke of long years of deprivation.

The pastiness, the hairiness, the crumply knobbliness.

The fumbling Dr. Jekyll's emergence from meek pastiness to petty meanness - with a cape and a red scarf - is simply unamazing.

After he had washed the pastiness from his face, brushed his hair back and straightened his shoulders, he looked quite different from the shambling apprentice who usually appeared in overalls.

As Donough broke off a willow twig to scrub the pastiness from his teeth, he found himself recalling a dark-eyed woman trailing her fingers through the air, beckoning him ... "Abu Gillapatrick!"