Word: pallidly
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...public's affection for the bestseller was pallid compared with Wayne's. The Duke offered to buy the screen rights for $300,000. "I knew right away that Rooster Cogburn was a character that fit my pistol," he said. "He even felt the same way about life. He did not believe in pampering wrongdoers." Eventually, Producer Hal Wallis outbid Wayne-but Wallis provided an appropriately happy ending by hiring the superstar to play the role...
During her latest visit to Illyria, Janet settles down to a pallid little ghost story, only to be distracted by a long overdue awareness of her own insubstantiality. She is also distracted by other guests: an old platonic friend who she discovers is a homosexual, an alcoholic has-been novelist, a professional East Village poet who probably writes off LSD experiences as business trips, and a sexy, uncouth junk-sculptor...
...senior quarterback completed 11 of 18 passes for 102 yards, making Robertson look pallid by comparison. Robertson--who averaged well over 100 yards passing per game in Cornell's first three games--was held to only 58 yards (seven completions in 18 attempts) by the Crimson's stingy defense...
...jazz authority and wide-ranging social critic, is one of the most visible freelance writers in circulation. In this slight assignment he overcomes his modest talents for fiction with competence, concern and sympathy. But to what worthwhile end? Surely today's "young adults" do not need such pallid dramatizations of their problems when Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles do it so much better...
...modern theater, whether in London or New York, dwells in this half-light, with its pensive mixture of not-yet-dusk and not-quite-dawn. Since drama does not spin on nature's axis but on man's art, the pallid half-light may be prolonged. In few ages has the theater dazzled, yet through how many has it endured...