My translator was sitting in a metal folding chair in the foyer, looking pallid.
"Twilight" settles for pallid heavy petting and a return engagement in the not-too-distant future.
The pallid recovery should strengthen next year as exporters, spurred by a weak pound, hit their stride.
Many Americans suffer tomatoes so pallid and tasteless that they must wonder: Why not just sell red-tinted cardboard instead?
She pressed her pallid and wild-eyed face up to the glass so that her nose and lips flattened and distorted.
Del Toro was pallid, and it did not look as if he had continued losing weight: he was still wearing black sweats.
But the best reason of all is the way these seductively beautiful drawings reveal the real Palladio, as opposed to all the pallid imitations that have followed.
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The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid.
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Fluorescent bulbs emit a pallid, bleached light that is okay for hallways and porches, but which fails to flatter and provide a good quality of light for living rooms.
Vineyards were adapted for other uses, and what was left was set to producing mass quantities of harsh reds and pallid whites for export to Russia, Poland and elsewhere in the Eastern bloc.
But the atmosphere is too rich for the pallid plot: Jack Skellington, the bony master of ceremonies in Halloweentown, discovers the spirit of Christmas and tries to import it into his ghoulish world.
Alice herself, well played by the grave and spectrally pallid Mia Wasikowska, is no child but a stubborn young lady, scorning an offer of marriage in the overworld and descending, instead, to the subterranean.
While he may have already capitulated to Union troops, she enlists the stalwart Confederate general of her imagination to fight one more losing battle with the new Southern male, a pallid spawn who can't shoot, can't hunt, can't fight, and can't play cards.
Cate Blanchett does what's asked of her wonderfully well, but it's still a trick, just like Jude Law's fleeting turn as Errol Flynn, or Kate Beckinsale's game impersonation of Ava Gardner. (Game but pallid, beneath Ava's sensational clothes.) Leonardo DiCaprio brings an impressive set of skills to his role, but they're the wrong skills, because he's wrong for the part.
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