bronzed

Not only was skin color not a social construct at the time, but most Mediterranean peoples had darker, bronzed tones.

John Peale Bishop is pretty hilarious: Famously she descended, her red hair Unbound and bronzed by sea-reflections, caught Crinkled with sea-pearls.

There is the image of the bronzed aussie which comes from being outside without sun protection - (t) shirt, hat, sunscreen.

Some things should be bronzed so we don’t ever lose them and this is one of them.

A vp used to give bronzed Nike shoes for the 5 year anniversary.

I remember wanting their sleek notebook after seeing a bronzed ad in Byte.

But a man with pale skin was considered unmasculine: bronzed skin was associated with the heroes who fought on battlefields and competed as athletes, naked, in amphitheatres.

I am going to have your comment bronzed.

> a man with pale skin was considered unmasculine: bronzed skin was associated with the heroes who fought on battlefields and competed as athletes, naked, in amphitheatres.

There have been improvements since the first generation "bronzed" CDRs such that they won't deteriorate as nearly as quickly.

> that would commit to what shade of "bronzed" they're actually talking about.

Bronze metal doesn't look at all like what we generally call "bronzed skin"; Kennedy knows she is talking to a modern (popular) audience, so it's unlikely that the shade of bronze metal is what she means.

But then the probability comes into effect of what is the likelihood that a given bronze medalist falls into this disappointed category versus the "oh wow, I bronzed against all expectations".