Word: pallid
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...Canaille, Cassis, Opus 200, 1889, is a superb example. The day is fading. The tartans, or lateen-rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate...
...While he didn't quite drop the ring, things didn't go exactly as planned. "It was dark out there in the woods and she couldn't see the ring at first, so her first look at her engagement ring was by the pallid green light of my cell phone," Tyrgve says. "She got to examine it on the way back to her parents' house, however, as she insisted on keeping the dome light of the car on throughout the drive...
...story of the Flying Dutchman, “Time’s Fool” is written in a loose terza rima: still carefully turned, but driven by narrative rather than the internal demands of metre. It seemed entirely appropriate after the reading when, over a glass of pallid Chardonnay, he told me that “strangely, I found it easier to publish this poem in America...it won’t be coming out in Britain until September...
...opened, Kim walked in to the noise of the Panaflex shutters clattering like enormous insects. A short man--slightly topping Albright's 5 ft. 3 in.--with a potbelly, he wore well-shined shoes that formed triangles below his trademark khaki trousers and zip-front jacket. His skin looked pallid and his eyes slightly puffy, but he smiled as he strode toward Albright. She grinned back and said, "I'm very glad to be here; it's a beautiful city"--the first part of which, at least, was true...
...Shaft": I think Samuel L. Jackson is a great actor. He looks fabulous. He looks even more fabulous in Armani. But I don't need to pay $10 to see him, thus clad, reciting singsong lyrics in a pallid imitation of the groundbreaking movie of the same name...