hot_pink colors

Literary analysis:

The color hot pink is employed in literature to evoke striking, instantly recognizable images that can range from playful to intense. In some texts, such as in [1] and [2], it highlights artificiality and flair—appearing in makeup or on a sealed plastic packet—to suggest both an external impression and an element of theatrical decoration. At times, it is used to dramatize emotional shifts or physical reactions, as seen in [3] where it marks a sudden change in facial color, or with more abstract internal imagery in [4]. Additionally, nature is rendered pleasantly vivid with hot pink blossoms on a cactus in [5], while even everyday elements, like the gravy in [6] or the layered description in [7], adopt hot pink to create a blend of surreal and visceral impact.

Quite heavily made up, with hot pink lipstick and a Cleopatra hairdo, she looks considerably younger than her age.
— from 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard
Before Sammy knew it, he was taking receipt of a sealed plastic packet in hot pink with a perforated strip down one side.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow
His face turned from a hot pink to a dull brick-dust red, and he gnawed at his moustache.
— from Those Times and These by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
A hot pink flowed under her skin.
— from Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
If you take the trail in spring or summer, the mound-building strawberry cactus will be covered with hot pink blossoms and delicious fruit.
— from Big Bend National Park, Texas by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
He would imitate the action of the carver and the sound of the carving‑knife making its first keen cut while the hot pink gravy runs down the sides.
— from The Martian: A Novel by George Du Maurier
glaring muddy hot pink?
— from The Tunnel: Pilgrimage, Volume 4 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

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