Purple Prose/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** My glistening blue orbs totally filmed over with a sheet of salty sorrow at this unfair comment.

** Would you rather see 'curved spherical photon receptor cells with a dark pinpoint ringed by a coloured iris and containing a clear gelatinous substance near the nose and above the mouth' all the time?

** What bothers me, is when a characters eyes are described as "[color] orbs". The entire eye ''is'' an orb, but the iris is a circle on front of an orb.

** I agree with the above troper. "Blue orbs" makes me think of solid blue eyeballs.