Word: paleness
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...suit, a white shirt and a red-and-white-striped tie. The chair he occupies is backed into a corner of the office. Wide windows on either side of him offer a view of antiquated wooden water tanks on the rooftops of nearby buildings and a sky that is pale blue and still as a wall...
...Tofutti or the rising demand for automobile sunroofs. Its emphasis on American popular culture leads its reporters to explore in telling detail, day after day, such events as Coca-Cola's switches in formula and just about anything to do with Hollywood. The writing style, once derided as pale and plodding, has grown much livelier...
...spirit of scrutiny—as evidenced by its decision to recommend divestment from PetroChina—and trust the Corporation, and the HMC, to police themselves. Lines have to be drawn. Ultimately, the benefits of ridding Harvard of a few more million dollars of questionable stock pale in comparison to the importance of the health of Harvard’s investments. Harvard has set a strong precedent for divesting from exceptionally bad companies. More student interference at this point will likely do more harm than good...
...midnight, long past bedtime for most children. But in a poor, war-ravaged neighborhood of Kabul, more than 300 men are gathered at a wedding party to listen to the singing of Mirwais Najrabi, a pale, chestnut-haired 13-year-old. He performs in an open courtyard, under the night sky, to an audience that has endured so much suffering and grief over years of oppression, war and mayhem. Yet for this brief, transcendent moment, their burden is lifted by the exquisite purity of the boy's voice...
Presiding over this inferno is the creepily complacent Cupid, played by John Kelly with mesmerizing deliberateness. Far from the cherubic toddler of Valentine’s Day, this pale, stealthy god takes malevolent pleasure in characters’ seduction and subsequent destruction...