Word: pallidly
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...wrong. Stanford has its fill of brilliant wonks and serious academicians. But the level of intellectual intensity doesn't compare to what you'll find at Harvard. Introspective souls do exist at Stanford even though they don't have the green and pallid "Underground Man" countenance of the driven Harvard neurotics. Discovery through suffering is not high on the priority list at Stanford mostly because environmental advantages abound...
...From his pallid face, the boy expressed the bitter essence of contempt which the weak have for all that is piti less and strong. His mouth made rude noises. His fingers interpreted them . . He slouched away, his feet seeming not in complete accord with his knees. A lurid sunset turned a last sickly smile upon him before it died...
During Sprague's opening salvo Boyle slouched in his chair in stony silence; all the bluster and bravado that characterized his nine-year reign at the U.M.W. had vanished. At 71, he is gaunt and pallid, suffering from anemia, heart disease and the effects of an attempted suicide seven months ago. He was flown in from a Missouri prison, where he is serving a three-year sentence for illegally contributing union funds to the 1968 presidential campaign...
Like Ehninger, most of the other male characters in the book are pallid. It is the women who are vivid and demonstrate by far the sharpest appetites. Beeky's wife, for example, is a ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington...
...efforts, the gritty good humor of President Nixon at his 61st birthday party was belied by his appearance. His complexion was pallid, and he looked haggard and weary. Clearly, the two weeks already spent in San Clemente had not, as hoped, begun to refresh his spirits or restore his vigor. The evidence of the President's weariness came as a particular jolt to some of his staffers: they literally had not seen him since his arrival...