Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
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His ivory skin was still etiolate from living behind the chintzy velvet drapes surrounding his coffin, and he arose like virga to greet every twilight, but nyctophobia was not a proper state of being for a true lord of the night, and he shrank back as the world grew darker, trapped by his fear.
(by wordgirl)3
Unnatural -- like a virga in a thunderstorm or a hurricane evaporating on the spot -- that's what darkness is; after its daily ritual of murdering and hiding away the sun, it seeps through my flimsy, chintzy curtains to come awaken my dreaded nyctophobia, to come etiolate my once-vibrant sanity, to come murder me, its next victim -- a victim of sleep.
(by ponYthink)2
At first, we were in a dark lounge and she was to me enchantingly beautiful and stylish, but when later the lights came on and I saw that her face was etiolated and her clothes chintzy, my enthusiasm evaporated and fell to earth like so much virga and I secretly prayed to be again in darkness with her despite my perennial nyctophobia.
(by Sami)
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I don't know if it's the chintzy curtains, or the virga dripping from that damp skylight, or the fact that your arm's just been lopped off, or what exactly it is; but my friend, something is making your face abnormally pale and etiolated this evening: you look like a nyctophobic vampire with a Vitamin D deficiency, for crying out loud.
(by saintdufus)