(adjective) deficient in color; wan / (adjective) lacking sparkle or liveliness; dull
Their skins in the spill from this fluorescent indigo lighting register the same pallid hue, as if permanently stained from too much cathode radiation.
next to which the epiphanies of Joyce or redemptions of O'Connor seem pallid or crude
referring to Borges' best works, The Immortal and The Writing of the God
the childhoods that we will never again live through, except by means of the relatively pallid movement of imaginative creation
the sights taking their lead aslant purple hills to pallid sky
Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second-hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at once remove from my consciousness
beautiful
the pallid fascination of the Chaumont hills in the morning and the fascination of evening
Only in very expert hands could it be made to transcend its humble origin—the pallid poetry of eighteenth-century France
on Russian elegies
we emerged into the pallid bleakness of a Paris winter day
the sky closed over him in pallid darkness
There is no colour in existence that so powerfully communicates urban alienation, the atomisation of human beings inside the edifices they create, as this noxious pallid green
Something about his world feels wrong; it is a world compressed between grays and greens, and the pallid daylight in nondescript Mega City, USA blends uncannily into the neon glow of the MS-DOS underworld he haunts after hours
on the Matrix
In thousands of rooms, as many men intently removed minuscule stubble from pallid chins
Day did not dawn. The night withdrew to expose it evenly pallid from one end to the other as a treated corpse
There is certainly laughter here, a renegade form of parody and mockery that one hesitates to label satire, especially given the pallid and toothless form that satire has assumed in British culture in recent times
Riding still, out of the roaring night into a pallid day of sidewalks and beggars with the past rising through their eyes.
I’ve seen several small cities alone while he recovered in a hotel room, while he slept pallid in the bed, coated with sweat under the covers.
American spies are naïfs or pallid sidekicks