Because these were people she knew, she refrained from calling them "degenerates" or "infidels"

When some rich Muslim families in Şişli and Nişantaşı began buying pine trees to decorate and display in windows the way Christians did in films, I remember that even my mother felt uneasy, but because these were people she knew, she refrained from calling them "degenerates" or "infidels" as the religious press would, dismissing them rather as "harebrained."

O. Pamuk, The museum of Innocence (2009), 446

The absolute black of the sky dulled and dimmed

The absolute black of the sky dulled and dimmed and blanched slowly away, and finally half a dozen daubs of cloud, dull powder pink, sailed high in a pale-green sky, rust-red at the horizon.

M. Robinson, Housekeeping (1980),117