brick_red colors

Literary analysis:

In literature, brick red is a richly evocative color that serves to heighten both visual scenes and emotional landscapes. Writers often use it to describe the interplay of light and dark in a setting, as when shadows are rendered in a “brick red” hue that connotes an earthy, almost tactile warmth [1]. At other times, brick red marks the intense flush of a character’s emotions—whether it’s a surge of anger, embarrassment, or passion—bringing depth to moments of human vulnerability, as seen when characters “flushed a brick red” in the heat of their feelings [2, 3, 4]. Beyond human expression, the color finds a place in nature and material culture, evoking imagery from the reddish soils of distant landscapes [5] to the distinctive pigment of aged pottery or bricks [6, 7]. In this way, brick red becomes a versatile literary device, blending the physical with the emotional to enrich the narrative environment.

His color was hot and coarse, his lights lurid, his shadows brick red.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
He was too disappointed and angry to notice the slip of his tongue, but Fluss flushed a brick red.
— from Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil; Or, The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune by Alice B. Emerson
" Mark Tapper flushed brick red, and rose.
— from When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry by Charles Neville Buck
As he got up his face was brick red, and I almost thought he'd have a fit.
— from The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by King-Hall, Stephen, Sir
We see crops, good crops, growing on brick red soil.
— from Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota by P. D. (Purl Dewey) Peterson
The final result is a beautiful pot, of a brick red colour when new, though after several uses it becomes completely black.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
Brick Red ( testaceus , lateritius , rutilus ), a dull brownish-red color like the color of burnt bricks.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

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