It was only my mom and sister who derided my pallid face, or at least they were the only ones to do it to my pallid face.
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Your face appears pallid and purplish, like a faded bruise.
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Our disappointment over missing the elusive pallid peregrine had receded.
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"Silence" argues against orthodoxy, but its messenger is too pallid.
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It's a pallid November afternoon somewhere off the M303 highway.
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Scrooge's sister, Fan, a pallid presence in the novel (she dies young, always having been "a delicate creature"), proves, in Clinch's reimagining, to be anything but pallid, coming to a tragic but profoundly romantic end.
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But dams like this make it hard for the pallid sturgeon.
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ME AF. Taylor Swift hopping on Tom Hiddleston's pallid, knobbly back?
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What in their personalities was anything other than feckless and pallid?
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But even a tasty dessert can't rescue a pallid main course.
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If you ask me, Ramsay's pad Thai is pallid, almost ghostly-looking.
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The pallid-winged grasshopper is a common desert species, a state entomologist said.
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But what sounds so delicious in the telling is pallid and ludicrous onscreen.
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Alas, Mimì — one fears for Kristine Opolais, whose voice has become worryingly pallid.
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But Flake's actions, pallid as they have been, don't signal a strong party.
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The pallid princeling is now responsible for speeding construction of the border wall.
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The Temptations' hit "Just My Imagination," a ballad about loneliness and dreaming, was pallid.
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But these aren't locusts; they're desert-native pallid-winged grasshoppers, and they're behaving normally.
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Text that was once crisp and dark was suddenly lightened to a pallid gray.
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News analysis The Israeli prime minister's fervent base can make President Trump's look pallid.
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Even before the coronavirus outbreak, business investment was already pallid in the United States.
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The figures, despite their pallid coloring and twiggy compositions, don't appear frail or sickly.
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Beneath the mask, this titan has grown as pallid and fleshy as a waterlogged corpse.
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Nearby, makeup artists applied ghastly wounds and pallid skin tones to other zombies-in-waiting.
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I scrubbed cups and harassed Pallid into opening a sticky jar of damson-plum jam.
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Her skin looked gray behind the usual deep brown color, and her lips were pallid.
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But those black buildings are in Scandinavia or the Netherlands, far from my pallid neighborhood.
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One of three raw-fish appetizers is tuna yuk hwe in a pallid, forgettable dressing.
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The tomatoes took on a pallid, sickly color; other crops failed to grow at all.
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In my periphery, I could see the tips of his pallid fingers, resting against his sides.
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I don't remember much of him beyond his pallid green skin in his last few days.
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Without A.I., now-hot fields like robotics and virtual reality would be pallid, perhaps even nonexistent.
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Their blood is water, their flesh is pallid — yes, prick them and they do not bleed.
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Mullen, who has a meaty build and a pallid complexion, was not much of a drinker.
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But nobody can accuse him of being feckless or pallid or unwilling to pull a trigger.
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With her heavily applied crimson lipstick, copper hair and pallid complexion, Elizabeth is beautiful but scary.
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Nadler, 71, appeared pallid and sick at the event in New York City promoting traffic safety measures.
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Under the pallid and unforgiving light of the moon, the Queen's body once again condensed and hardened.
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And while the two might share literary lineage, the new series is at best a pallid pretender.
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Shown in mid-seizure — the result of post-concussion syndrome, her pallid figure seems frozen in space.
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A pallid bat pouncing on a giant desert hairy scorpion, which is larger than the Arizona bark scorpion.
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Like her characters, a sorry gaggle of pallid shut-ins and thwarted fantasists, Ozick doesn't get out much.
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In isolation, Assange came to resemble the Wizard of Oz, a pallid inventor hidden behind a grand machine.
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The corned beef tends to be steamed slightly too long, until it is a little pallid and spongy.
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An unusually wet year is responsible for the biblical-seeming swarm of pallid-winged grasshoppers, according to entomologists.
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An unusually wet year is responsible for the biblical-seeming swarm of pallid-winged grasshoppers, according to entomologists.
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In contrast to the bursts of vivid description of music or landscapes, however, these moments can seem rather pallid.
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The movie version gives Liam and Ruby little more than pallid banter and familiar will they / won't they tension.
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Summertime means emerging from your dimly lit cubicle to expose your pallid skin to some precious rays of sunshine.
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Placebo always stuck out like a streak of bright red lipstick on the otherwise pallid face of British culture.
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To a golem's eyes, the human inside appeared pallid as a grub, with unbaked skin and unfinished, asymmetric features.
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For Bibi, it's no more fast cars and slinky racing onesies; in their place are sweatpants and pallid pining.
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The protagonist of "The Owl Answers," a one-act from 1965, is a light-skinned ("pallid") black woman named Clara.
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You sponge their pallid skin and gently massage their flesh as if you were still taking care of someone alive.
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Strikingly, too, the meteorite had an intensity that made the art works elsewhere in the room seem wan and pallid.
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At first glance, the sculpture seems to mimic a pallid heart muscle, bypassed by seams that resemble hand-stitched arteries.
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Watching a lot of news, however, only makes the one-foot-in-reality aspects of "Seven Seconds" feel relatively pallid.
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Instead, she and Steve recruit a pallid A-team of stock male mercenaries to fight, while Etta stays behind in London.
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Where the New England crowd served up pallid versions of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Whitman's was an endearingly DIY, proto-punk aesthetic.
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Some opined that Williams was a mad genius, having devised the perfect answer to the horror of limp and pallid tacos.
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Picasso's version on these walls looks undercharged, a pallid remake far too much in the guise of a fairly generic Picasso.
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His politics rebel against a Britain that is eager to join foreign wars and pallid in the face of social inequality.
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" But these earlier, pallid attempts at multi-culturalism don't hold a candle to the range of colors and ethnicities in "Rogue One.
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Eyeliner sharpened, nails painted black, propensity for pallid looking lead singers with unkempt, poorly dyed hair locked and loaded: I am ready.
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Geek Love showed us that perhaps we would never fit into the normal world, but that that world was pallid and lacking.
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When it was all over, she looked around at what she had become: a shriveled shell of a woman, pallid and dry.
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Genji's Heian-ideal face—a round, pallid visage with high, bushy eyebrows and a pouty mouth—shines out from all of them.
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The long fluorescent lights, the pallid beige floors with streaks of chewing gum worn black by the constant tread of squeaky trainers.
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Even the latest plot, driven by an overreaching female president, somehow feels relatively pallid compared to the shenanigans playing out in Washington.
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Not only that, scientists weren't even sure if pallid bats, which range from British Columbia to Mexico, even prey on Arizona bark scorpions.
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The study showed that pallid bats are resistant to the scorpion's venom at concentrations that would cause significant pain and death in mice.
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Benjamin Disraeli once mocked the opposing front bench as a row of exhausted volcanoes ("Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest").
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Simon later rewrote a female version of the play, which also inspired a more recent sitcom revival, albeit a pallid one, on CBS.
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Poehler pads the drinking and sharing with pallid landscape shots that look like travel ads, though Napa has rarely appeared this washed-out.
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An inspection through binoculars of the lone peregrine falcon revealed the grayish underparts of the common cassini, and not the rarer pallid morph.
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Under the film's color-drained cinematography, Alison looks tired and pallid as she's harassed and chased away by locals who despise her family.
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My sister doesn't make me yearn for the pallid pleasures of dieting; she reminds me to delight in the messy fullness of living.
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As a character, he is so pallid as to be almost invisible, barely intruding on the action except every so often to fall ill.
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Even when Esmail is not directing, Mr. Robot frames all the shots slightly off kilter, keeps the actors pallid in shadowy New York apartments.
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Safe slivers of spherical mystery luncheon meats that dissolve on the tongue, fromage frais, tube spread, pallid petrol station pastries with liquid chicken centres.
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At the same time, a world without borrowing and learning from our neighbors would be pallid and parochial — a world, in effect, without spice.
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A pallid son, Peter, spends his days trying to find something interesting to look at through the microscope he received as a Christmas present.
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The precise designs of his Guggenheim exposés or "Der Pralinenmeister" was left behind in favor of pallid oil paintings of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
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Pallid sturgeon were once abundant along the Missouri River, which flows east from Montana and south until it empties into the Mississippi River in Missouri.
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The actor, who stole our hearts as the pallid vampire dreamboat, Edward, in the film saga, said that the series will always be part of him.
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The surgical waiting room of our local University cancer hospital was full of husbands and wives, each wearing the same pallid frown that I was wearing.
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I ordered a pufferfish sashimi lunch at Zuboraya, said some mental prayers and ate the thin, pallid slices off of the plate in front of me.
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His slightly kinked black hair hangs down to his shoulders, and his pallid skin is punctuated by arched eyebrows, a pencil mustache, and a graying goatee.
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On this occasion, she used her magnetism to draw listeners into a world of sounds that included pallid, watery tones a mere whisper away from silence.
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What was once a shady den tinged a pallid green by the neon sign in the window blossomed into a bright dining hall spanning two storefronts.
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The material — which currently doesn't have a name — mimics the structure of scales that cover the Cyphocilus beetle, a pallid bug that's native to Southeast Asia.
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I mean, other than the very dark circles, and pallid complexion of that part of my life, and came back to the dinner, I feel okay.
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This is plainly laid bare when we see him forlornly eating bread and cheese, looking pallid and rather hideous, before a fireplace in the dark one night.
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I live between a suburban land of plenty and a rural land of scarcity, where endless skies and pallid grass merge with apartment complexes and outdoor malls.
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After years of economic desperation, American workers are finally regaining some of the ground they lost in the last decade's recession and the pallid recovery that followed.
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Scientists have long suspected that pallid bats are resistant to this scorpion's deadly sting, but no one has actually taken the time to prove this in the lab.
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Pallid bats are gleaning bats, which means they pluck animals from the ground, like crickets, centipedes, ground beetles, and grasshoppers, while using their echolocation strictly for navigational purposes.
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Using high-speed video, the researchers confirmed that pallid bats attack Arizona bark scorpions, and that the scorpions sting the bats in self-defence—but to no avail.
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Somewhat higher oil prices should also help put an end to another drag on the economy: pallid investment, which was partly responsible for the first quarter's slow growth.
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In a pallid parade of establishment politicians Mr. Feiglin stands out as a colorful, convention-busting alternative, said Batia Siebzehner, a sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Granted, the Showtime drama flamed so brightly at first, with its "The Manchurian Candidate" overtones, that it has often felt like a pallid imitation in the intervening years.
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In coming years, the New York music scene is in danger of reverting to a pallid definition of the art: not What Composers Do but What Composers Did.
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In Claude Chabrol's 1991 Madame Bovary, she takes arsenic and dies a prolonged (and aspirationally goth) death, writhing pallid and clammy in bed, hallucinating and vomiting up black bile.
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Take, for example, this shot of a pallid-looking Steven Crain and his father at a funeral home: The washed-out color amplifies the sense of sadness and exhaustion.
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They are sticking with Trump, and no pallid reminder of his turpitude, his trellis of obstructions and his unpatriotic embrace of foreign interference in our elections, will change that.
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They are sticking with Trump, and no pallid reminder of his turpitude, his trellis of obstructions and his unpatriotic embrace of foreign interference in our elections, will change that.
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The CGI was atrocious, blotting every monster with an oily shimmer and turning the human actors into pallid cartoon corpses when it needed to carry them through an action sequence.
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There is nothing pompous or pallid about his prose, which makes it all the odder that so much of the music that he wrote seems to have no other qualities.
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Against such pallid fare, anything will do, even fake news and false messiahs, with millions of thumbs forwarding the image of dollar bills raining down on a street of diamonds.
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This criticism is a sad example of the pallid discourse of today's media, in which facts are seen as "partisan rancor" and the truth is considered too ugly to tell.
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"The Cruel Sea" had a pallid romance tucked into a subplot, but that didn't interest me at all; I just wanted to get back to the men on the ship.
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But neither Sara Mearns (juicy but harsh) nor Sterling Hyltin (sweet but pallid) gives Robbins's Spring choreography full radiance or élan; nor do their partners, Jared Angle and Chase Finlay.
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But with "Idol" returning in March on ABC, it's not clear how much of a market exists for another pallid clone, which could leave Fox as the odd network out.
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So fine are those pallid features, skittering with anxiety and intent, that his agent must be constantly tempted to skip the movie offers and enter him in the Kentucky Derby.
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For a mere mortal movie, that would be just fine, but it's a pallid addition to the "Star Wars" universe, which has shattered box-office records and routinely amassed huge returns.
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But on the basis of Mr. Leveaux's curiously pallid production, which had its official (and delayed) opening on Sunday night, and Ms. Weisz's performance, it is Mr. Canby's verdict that stands.
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When a homeless man abandons dinner before Kiya can film him, Mr. Mockler's colorful, kinetic frames capture what Kiya missed, relishing the grease as it smears across the man's pallid face.
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The result, however, plays like a pallid version of the globetrotting spy thrillers with which we're accustomed, and limbos under the bar of what's expected in terms of action and suspense.
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"I can't believe how dead this place is," a pallid-looking man in a black suit, black shirt and white tie remarks to his three male companions at the table beside you.
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Last year, biologists and conservationists got a judge to temporarily block dam construction while the agencies conducted a more thorough study of the options and their possible effects on the pallid sturgeon.
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Yet all the crazy tabloid splits and international spats seem pallid in comparison to the pathetic spectacle in Congress on Wednesday: a heartbroken ex publicly and bitterly processing his relationship with Trump.
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His Vuitton is more interesting than his Off-White, which often seems like a pallid copy of other people's ideas, just as Mr. Lagerfeld's Chanel was more effective than his namesake label.
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Except for its scenes involving animals, this handsome, excessively fastidious screen adaptation of Diane Ackerman's 2007 nonfiction best seller is a polite but pallid recycling of Holocaust movie tropes with epic pretensions.
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The atmospherics around the pallid corpse are revealing; while the statuesque form of Christ reads as a pillar of calm, the expressions of those around him betray only fear, confusion, and sorrow.
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Unlike her contemporary Rooney Mara, who has virtually patented a pallid modern Goth style, Ms. McAdams, who works with Rob Zangardi and Mariel Haenn (both stylists declined to comment), has no signature look.
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Today was another Big Idea day for Mark, one where our pallid, lab-grown CEO shovels 3,000 words of pure disruption down our collective throats (in the form of a lengthy Facebook post).
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One of the major plot threads concerns the conflict between the evil Red Queen, Iracebeth (a feisty, snapping Helena Bonham Carter), and her sister, the angelic White Queen, Mirana (a pallid Anne Hathaway).
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Reading on, I discovered that Francesca Fusco, MD, of Wexler Dermatology in New York City, worked closely with this woman to hatch a plan and press the reset button on her pallid complexion.
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Despite his use of Cyrillic text, the strange '80s-tinged proportions of his sportswear-heavy looks and his casting of pallid teenage models, Rubchinskiy bristles when people describe his clothes as post-Soviet.
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And in a cumbersome allegorical role called Die Älte is the great Estelle Parsons, 92, who gives a performance of such bravura ferocity that the production's fiery special effects seem pallid beside her.
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The cultural signifiers denoting Kahraman's ethnic heritage are sparse, and few – a colorful shawl with decorative motif patterns, ostensibly from pre-modern Iraq, and thick, jet black tresses and eyebrows set against pallid skin.
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Harkin asked a pallid man in a Make America Great Again cap what he thought Hillary would wear, and he predicted, "A pantsuit, a bulletproof vest, and a catheter," due to her failing health.
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They wrote chaotic songs held together with formless washes of noise and anxious vocal drones, crafting pallid but vibrant pieces that thrashed with the mutant energy of the Birthday Party, or like, a ratking.
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Our parents sat on the couch, with Lulu on a stool beside them, their faces pallid in the television's flickering light as I joined them, stealing glances at this strange person, my twin sister.
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The death of his sister Sophie inspired six versions of "The Sick Child," in which Munch painted a redheaded invalid sitting upright on her deathbed, her pallid face seen in profile against the pillow.
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But, Brown reasoned, this was because they were designed for the wrong audience—vegetarians, the five per cent of the population who had accustomed themselves to the pallid satisfactions of bean sprouts and quinoa.
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All the paintings in this Guggenheim show were displayed in Péladan's annual, highly publicized exhibition: plaintive Orpheuses; pale femmes fatales; virginal maids in the wilderness, their pallid skin rendered in soft, vaporous brush strokes.
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At two state-run markets, where the government sets prices, the shelves this past week were monuments to starch — sweet potatoes, yucca, rice, beans and bananas, plus a few malformed watermelons with pallid flesh.
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An Art Deco monument that has seen better days, the hotel, with its pallid interiors and half-lit corridors, could have served as a backdrop for one of Andy Warhol's louche, loosely rambling films.
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Yet again, you've fed your money into a black hole of half-finished conversations you never wanted to start in the first place, and the room's a pallid blur of pale dregs and grey faces.
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This supermarket's few products include Kellogg's Zucaritas, its muscular tiger cartoon strangely pallid in hue—supposedly to make the packaging more eco-friendly but, many Venezuelans reckon, more likely the result of an ink shortage.
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You're scared of, like, a single hand grasping your ankle urgently from beneath a bed, or a door slamming shut without you touching it, or the pallid dead skin and black eyes of a hissing vampire.
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Being made a reader accomplice, being invited to play one of Cortázar's games, "not a trivial game that has no meaning" but rather "a dialectic, an exchange," makes other books look pallid and rude by comparison.
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In addition, given how pallid some of those earlier series look compared to the Disney+ projects, will there still be an appetite for lesser fare like "Cloak & Dagger," which Marvel produced for Freeform, a Disney-owned cable network.
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Stuck between this dam and the Fort Peck Dam to the northwest, the pallid sturgeon can no longer travel far enough up the fragmented rivers to ensure their eggs will make it to a healthy place to develop.
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If you need somebody to recount the rise of a British rock god from pallid suburbia to the baroque extremes of fame, and to create a stir without causing too much of a fuss, Fletcher is your man.
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It omits many of his most important series, like the "7313 Portraits" (901), his pallid pictures of dead white men, and "October 21675, 215" (1988), his ghostly cycle of the lives and deaths of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
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How, and in whose apartment, Diana and Ben will confess their emotions is the subject of Ms. Brooks's pallid dramedy, which leaves its actors looking somewhat stranded, as if waiting for Neil Simon zingers that were never written.
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Then I moved to Berkeley for college, and for the first time, I understood how someone could hate her vegetables: The pallid, overcooked steam-table brussels sprouts and zucchini served in the dining hall were depressing at best.
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Raising a handcuffed hand from the darkness of the police van to give a thumbs-up sign, Assange stares at the camera, his white hair, beard and pallid face making him appear far older than his 47 years.
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To be fair, the original Captain Marvel was always a pallid Superman clone -- the basis for a lawsuit by Superman's parent company -- other than deriving his powers from the gods, with the wisdom of Solomon, strength of Hercules, etc.
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Although the ratings have been good enough to justify this expansion of AMC's "The Walking Dead" brand, this offshoot has essentially become a pallid placeholder, killing time during those two-thirds of the year when the mother ship is docked.
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You've likely seen them: produce lined up in color gradients; bananas arranged like the spokes of a wheel; 16 slices of toast that range from being pallid to the color of ash—all of which have ricocheted across the internet.
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Art Review MANTUA, Italy — In 1972, Gerhard Richter represented West Germany at the Venice Biennale and presented one of his most renowned series of paintings: "48 Portraits," which depict famous and forgotten white men in blurry, pallid black and white.
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None of those regions, however, compares with Patagonia, home not only to the pallid peregrine — a rare, white-breasted morph of the southern peregrine — but also to passerines, waders and carrion-eaters found only at the bottom of South America.
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Editorial Observer In "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three," a film classic about a New York subway hijacking and hostage-taking — the 19713 version, not the pallid 21971 remake — an exasperated transit official only wants to get his train back.
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As unsettling as that moment was, neither it nor the rest of the final episode were enough to redeem a project that too often felt like a pallid imitation of those aforementioned influences, one too muddled to be consistently compelling.
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After plotting its trajectory, we could only watch with pallid faces as the asteroid passed within 230,21000 miles of the kind of satellites responsible for loading and reloading this very webpage, or awaiting the data stream from your next phone call.
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The star has quite the pipes and is backed by an adept band, but the songs — written by Mr. Jones with Laura Jean Anderson, Bobby Halvorson, Dylan Meek and Josh Quat — tend to be pallid, hook-free lite funk and R&B.
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Del Potro, who had been battling an illness the past couple of days and began the match looking pallid and clammy, rallied his health and his game, beating the sixth-seeded Thiem, 215-240, 22009-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1), 403-4.
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The success of "Making a Murderer" and HBO's "The Jinx," about Robert Durst, upped the ante on true-crime series, triggering a slew of copycats -- most relatively pallid by comparison -- that have sought to stretch out salacious murder cases over multiple episodes.
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The relationship between Ellie and Kurt, which should be its emotional axis, is a pallid romance punctuated by near-tragedy and solemn, beautifully shot movie sex — the kind that telegraphs profound feelings through the use of candles and graceful changes of position.
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Calling herself Lulu, she inveigles him into a road trip that takes them from rebellious delight into danger and violence (in the form of Lulu's ex-husband, an ex-con played by Ray Liotta in his movie debut) before its rather pallid Hollywood denouement.
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Although it keenly advertises its debt to the source material and its creator—peppering references to her work throughout, quoting tweaked chunks of her prose and even calling one of the main characters Shirley—it is but a pallid imitation of the work of the same name.
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It isn't your enthusiasm that tips you into the "PLEASE STOP, PLEASE, STOP, PLEASE STOP," territory, because lord knows the pallid husk of club culture could do with a bit more of that, but more the flailing elbows, misplaced knees, and complete lack of spatial awareness.
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Partly because I felt the need to explain my pallid geriatric appearance, and partly because I didn't want to be the only one (literally) carrying around this news, this bold-fonted all-caps headline being waved about by a tiny newscap'd British boy in my womb.
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But in the last two seasons, there's a nagging sense that the show is less binge-worthy, fading into a pallid version of what initially made it one of Netflix's signature series -- a verdict merely reinforced by its tepid showing in the latest round of Emmy nominations.
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Molly Ringwald, who shot to fame in the 200s as the beloved teenage star of John Hughes movies, plays the Shirley MacLaine role in this pallid adaptation, by Dan Gordon, of the tear-jerking movie and the Larry McMurtry novel it was based on (2530:227).
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Molly Ringwald, who shot to fame in the 28113s as the beloved teenage star of John Hughes movies, plays the Shirley MacLaine role in this pallid adaptation, by Dan Gordon, of the tear-jerking movie and the Larry McMurtry novel it was based on (227:2866).
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For small animals that like to prey on this creature, typically birds, reptiles, and various rodents, this scorpion's sting is likewise painful and deadly, but as new research published this week in PLoS One reveals, the bark scorpion's venom is utterly and completely useless against the pallid bat.
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The new study, led by University of California Riverside biologist Khaleel A. Razak, is the first to take a systematic look at this alleged scorpion-bat relationship, showing that pallid bats do indeed prey on this scorpion, and that they're unfazed by its venom, even after multiple stings.
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"The conservation groups are prepared to demonstrate that construction, operation, and maintenance of the project, including its substantial transmission line infrastructure, will proximately cause the unauthorized take of listed species, including the whooping crane, American burying beetle, pallid sturgeon, interior least tern, and piping plover," the notice read.
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As for Hilda Smith, the Hillary-lite character in this novel, she's the centrist vice president running against Armstrong George for the G.O.P. nomination — described in pallid terms as a blond, aging "ice queen," disliked — even hated — by many, while inspiring the blind devotion of her closest aides.
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But the scenes of people simply sitting and talking can't stand up to the technological wonderment — you find yourself examining every pore in the actors' faces, wondering if Steve Martin (as the football team's owner) looks that pallid naturally, or if the makeup just isn't up to snuff.
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" (Still, he gets points for telling readers to run, not walk, to see Alfonso Cuarón's A Little Princess, released around the same time.) Liam Lacey at Toronto's Globe and Mail dismissed it as "pallid, bloated, and light enough to evaporate from the mind 10 minutes after you leave the theatre.
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Throw a wrench in your loved one's vision of you as a soft, pallid HBO-hungry love pillow by adding hikes to your shared iCal (why on earth did you let them share an iCal with you already??), and mentioning casually that you can't wait till your annual mud run this year.
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Much was made when Mr. Slimane left (after months of speculation and breast-beating in the fashion community) over the question of whether Mr. Vaccarello would, as Mr. Slimane did when he arrived in 2012, change everything at YSL, or whether he would be charged with effectively continuing a pallid version of the aesthetic Mr. Slimane had created.
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Architects, developers, and politicians invariably do the design-for-expediency trade-off tango, a dance of compromises that occasionally results in architectural miracles but more often generates cookie-cutter buildings with hotel-like amenities — and the occasional poor door just to rub salt in the wound — that land in our cities with the dull thud of a pallid satisfactoriness.
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Even after a 10-year stint as a tricorn hat–clad "junior docent" at the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Rhode Island, I still find myself lulled into a nearly comatose state after spending a good chunk of time among the uniformly pallid, elegantly attired men and women who stare out imperiously from within their gilded frames.
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The live sound of the band amounted to an atmosphere: Simon Gallup's rugged, grip-tape bass lines, high up in the mix; the pallid beams of Roger O'Donnell's keyboard melodies; Mr. Smith's vocal wail and bright, watery guitar tone; the drummer Jason Cooper's thump at medium tempos; the extra layer of echo, viscosity and whoosh from the lead guitarist, Reeves Gabrels.
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Critical focus on any single decade comes at the cost of ignoring the larger science fiction influences entangled in the show's pop culture DNA Beyond the physical elements of its predatory nature, Stranger Things' Demogorgon also resonates with one of The X-Files' creepiest creations: the horrifyingly pallid, sewer-dwelling flukeman featured in "The Host," which aired during the show's second season in 1994.
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The low points were a lifeless instrumental rendition of the Duane Eddy hit "Rebel Rouser" and Mr. Naughton and Mr. Osborne's pallid attempt to duplicate the vocal sound of the Everly Brothers singing "Let It Be Me." But Mr. Naughton, who has warm personal memories of his adolescence in Connecticut, deployed his rich bass-baritone to infuse "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" with a plaintive resonance.
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He is also the one who is always with us because, somehow, we have all been persuaded that we need to know more about him: who he was, and when exactly he became the person that he was… perhaps because of the mere look of him, the frail epitome of a pallid, slightly collapsed vulnerability, tricked out in one or another of those ridiculous wigs.
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Add to this the fact that Mr Hamon has run a campaign too pallid to give him a shot at the second round and Mr Fillon has been damaged by scandal—his use of the parliamentary payroll to remunerate his wife and two of his children is now under judicial investigation—and you have an unprecedented collapse in support for the groupings that have run France over the past 60 years.
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"Good Time" is part of a fascinating course correction undertaken by Mr. Pattinson, who in recent years has appeared and almost disappeared in art cinema titles like "The Childhood of a Leader" and "The Lost City of Z." Although he brushed against blockbuster fame playing a doomed character in the "Harry Potter" franchise, he became a global name in the role of Edward Cullen, the pallid vampire heartthrob in the "Twilight" series.
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Whether Molko is singing about a directionless goth who spends all day cruising for shit sex on "Burger Queen" ("Chooses his clothes to match his pallid complexion / Now it takes him all day just to get an erection") or drawing comparisons between taking drugs and having sex with someone who's bad for you on "My Sweet Prince" ("Never thought I'd fill with desire / Never thought I'd feel so ashamed") or how passion can make you act in ridiculous and damaging ways on "Every Me and Every You" ("My heart's a tart, your body's rent / My body's broken yours is bent") Molko presents relationships in a way has absolutely nothing to do with gender, but everything to do with sex.
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