Word: paleness
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...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...
Means, Not Ends. Pale and defiant, Mendès took the rostrum. Looking at Pinay and Reynaud, he snapped: "I admire your energetic attitudes, although they have not always been in evidence . . . The treaty hung fire for 2½ years. It was signed by the Pinay government, but I don't recall Monsieur Pinay trying to bring it to a vote...
Author Blanch is no pale sociologist; a onetime staffer on the British Vogue, she has an interest in career-woman feminism and an addiction to headlong prose. The value of The Wilder Shores of Love is not in its arguments and conclusions, but in the case histories it presents of four 19th century women who turned their backs on the progressive West and found salvation in the unemancipated East. All four of them, says Author Blanch, "seemed to sense in ... passivity far larger opportunities of self-expression." The four...
...passion, too cold for natural comfort, almost too good to be true. It gave T. E., says Sir Winston Churchill in a superb preface to the Home Letters, "that touch of genius which everyone recognizes and no one can define." but simultaneously it placed its possessor beyond the pale. For, says Churchill...
...They were] not in bed, but leaning over a book . . . of accounts. Monsieur Willy was holding a pencil. I could feel my heart beating in my throat, and the two lovers looked with astonishment at this young pale girl from the provinces . . . What could I say? The little dark woman . . . held her scissors in her hand and waited for a word, a gesture, before she leapt at my face...