on this pallid April morning

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

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

The text was always pallid and weak compared to what he knew and felt, which was the proof that he lacked the genius to externalize himself on this issue.

the pallid fascination of the Chaumont hills in the morning and the fascination of evening

we emerged into the pallid bleakness of a Paris winter day

Only in very expert hands could it be made to transcend its humble origin—the pallid poetry of eighteenth-century France

that it looked as if it had been thrust like a brown velvet cushion against the pallid sky which had yielded beneath its pressure

the sky closed over him in pallid darkness

The man’s large, pallid face went slack.

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

I held sunken eye contact, and I had no appetite and no alcohol tolerance, and my blood pressure was so low I could have fainted at any moment, like a pallid background female in a Victorian novel

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

She stared at a pallid bust of Homer

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

a novella he had excitedly and hopefully composed, whose publication the previous year had done nothing to enhance his secure but pallid reputation.

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

Noisy or deserted city, pallid or hysterical city, gutted, devastated, soiled city, city bristling with prohibitions, steel bars, iron fences, locks.

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.

the pallid lighting of underground transfer halls

American spies are naïfs or pallid sidekicks