Adrian McKinty

The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.

Irish Novelist

Shirley Ballas

When I first went on Strictly' I had a little phase at the beginning, you know, when I was sat next to this really beautiful lady, Darcey Bussell - this ballerina, this Snow White beauty - that I stopped eating until I looked at myself and realized I looked so gaunt.

English Dancer

Heidi Klum

When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK.

German Model

Courteney Cox

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.

American Actress

Andie MacDowell

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

Katherine Anne Porter

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

American Journalist

Rosario Dawson

When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking.

Kris Carr

The gaunt, unhealthy vegan is the muffin vegan. Bread and fries and processed veggie dogs. It's like, 'Hello? Did you eat your vegetables?

American Author

Devon Windsor

I aspire to be an icon in a womanly, healthy way. I don't want to be some skinny, gaunt model nobody can relate to.

American Model

John Waters

At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I've gone gaunt.

Director

Used to describe a person's thin appearance that suggests poor health or malnutrition.

Physical Condition

Can describe a look that's striking or distinguished, not just unwell.

Not Always Negative

Emphasizes how skinny and drawn someone appears; more than just 'thin'.

Intensity

Expresses a deep level of sadness or desolation, reflected in someone's features.

Emotional State

Not just physical thinness, but can describe a place or thing that feels bleak.

Beyond Literal

Used to set a mood in storytelling, often foreshadowing something negative.

Subdued Atmosphere

 could have prepared him for what he saw that day. For a week or more, I had barely eaten. I was gaunt. I walked as though my legs were wooden. My face looked and felt like a mask. I had closed all the curtains in the apartment, so in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness.

A tale of mental illness...

 he wouldn’t entrust his son to those who passed judgment on human life. He ventured deeper into the tangled thicket. Here in the darkest part of the woods, the father made out a third figure. Sunken eyes stared out of its gaunt face, which broke into a crooked smile.

Gaunt