Word: paled
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Ultimately, this play is all about the music. The bits between songs, while sometimes bitterly ironic –such as the couple who happily announce their impending divorce as well as their plans to stay together in one breath–pale in comparison to the alternately witty and moving numbers. Although a couple of the slower songs dragged a bit, the music is in general wonderfully done...
Even though the amount granted to outside directors in options pale in comparison to options given out to executives, such practices shed light on the manner in which many corporations are governed...
...they removed them,” Epstein told The Associated Press. He added that while he considers many of his liberal colleagues to be “mad on many issues,” the government’s interpretation in this case was “beyond the pale...
...through—although she oddly expresses her affection for the diminutive nation through insults and political apathy—she wants to maintain a connection to the native peoples with whose plight she empathizes. But it’s more than that. As much as her reddened, pale skin betrays her legitimate claim to native roots, she unabashedly enjoys her minority status. She revels in playing the underdog. She’s lived the bulk of her American experience impoverished, ostracized by her poor English-speaking skills, feeling culturally dissonant in a structure (the US Army) that demands conformity?...
...three companions in ancient China, complete with a child emperor and a non-sequitur samurai. There’s some plot about time travel and lost love and a treasure map, but it’s only a weak set up for some amazingly incongruous scenes: four pale, emo-uniformed men walking in the midst of samurai. Leto wields a katana while wearing black fingerless gloves. Two servants ask the Emperor what he wants most in the world; his answer is 30 Seconds to Mars. The video is an exhausting 12 minutes long: five of tortured, solemn Leto...