Word: livid
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When morning shows its livid face...
...popularized; if they are schoolboys of taste they view it with alarm. No man was ever more betrayed by his imitators. What the trade knew as "Richardsonian Romanesque" are the banks, schools, churches, libraries, jails which still dot the land, built of the knobbiest of rough-cut masonry, with livid tile roofs, arched windows and a profusion of useless squat towers. What his admirers have never ceased to point out is that Richardson himself was very seldom Richardsonian. His best buildings: the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago, Harvard's Sever Hall, the Albany City Hall, Boston...
That was the "threat." Representative Brewster, nervously drumming his fingers on the committee table, was growing livid. Witness Corcoran continued...
Storm clouds scudded low against a livid sky. In the grayness of a November twilight, a long road of sun-bleached pebbles stretched startlingly white across the barren mountain top toward a desolated ledge. The dwarfed branches of scrub oaks rattled against each other in the cold wind, but the two figures progressing toward the ledge had no heed for the night or the wind...
...There is no Justice!" screamed the Premier, livid with rage. "I am not a Dictator. The proof is that I was elected! The law for the defense of the Republic [under which anti-Republican judges have been dismissed] is an absolute necessity today. I shall continue to use force while necessary...