Word: shade
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Though the Loker Commons are located underground, they are bright and airy. The wood paneling, in contrast to the Great Hall upstairs, is a pale shade...
...look good ... Alone with a dead body. Again. Your appetite for mayhem appears insatiable ... It will go more easily with you if you just tell the truth." The suspense here is not unbearable since we know that the real Adams was not guillotined. But in teasing Adams' respectable shade just a bit, the author has provided some of the year's most cheerful literary...
...goals put a cynical shade on the win. If Harvard had kept the shutout, then there would at least have been the happiness of winning by a large margin. Instead, the ugliness of the contest was the strongest impression...
...altitude defined him early, set him apart, just as his protean interests, multimedia successes and towering earnings would put him in rarefied air later on. A source of humiliation in cruel, skinny youth, his height was put in perspective later on, when he met, and was thrown into the shade by, 7-ft. 2-in. Wilt Chamberlain. "I had to admit," he said, "that part of me is proud of what makes me different...
Seated under the shade of a large, green umbrella, the models nodded, smiled and politely commented for the reporters...