Sentences with word «pallid»

Eewnicorns are pallid parodies of traditional unicorns, sporting teal, ghostly eyes and fiery manes.

When it's really dark, you can make use of the True Tone flash, which adds warmth to the image rather than turning you into a pallid spectre.

As I floundered through the deep snow I saw a hand give a regal wave from the front seat, and saw Stuart's smiling if pallid face.

After all, if you're going to take a pay cut to get more training, it might as well be the real thing rather than a pallid simulation.

And at one New York firm, a young female associate, with blonde, unwashed hair, a pallid complexion and dark circles under her eyes couldn't muster up much enthusiasm for her job.

Though 18 years had passed without any bleaching, a strong El Niño was now blowing its warm breath across the Pacific, draining color from the reef's spiky, tubular, and bulbous corals, leaving them pallid and skeletal.

Both shows have a freshness and energy that make the kids in neighboring galleries look pallid.

Pallid Spring, 1989 — 1990, graphite by Richard Pousette - Dart.

The flawlessly white walls, and beyond - pale, lime waxed white wood floors set up a kind of quivering, pallid preciousness that inspired church - like silence.

With their pallid tinted translucences, these objects are almost pretty.

It depicts a gross, pallid, hirsute middle - aged man on a George Nelson Marshmallow chair.

With slacker insouciance, Scott Reeder's pallid, cartoonish paintings spoof modernist art conventions.

The pallid Warhol room presents abstract images made using silk - screen printing techniques and — voilà — abstraction a generation after Warhol in the rooms that follow.

Swirling dark clouds engulf the pallid museum, which appears to be bloating and rupturing before our eyes; it's monumental but oddly lifeless.

All well and good but when set against those of his international, contemporary and accepted greats, for example: Brassai, Kertész and Man Ray, for me, Cavalli's pallid prints, pale that little bit further.

Words float out of the gracious veil of pallid, delicate colour she has transferred to a gallery surface: outside brought inside, street art memorialised, an abstract painting as a documentary photograph.

Cast in the surfaces of these pallid panels, pouches of bodily mass — in the shape of inflatable toy skeletons — appear suspended like flies in a web or frozen like fossilized bog bodies.

The X-ray only truly comes to life as an assertive form once placed on a light machine, otherwise it exists as a pallid, latent incarnation.

Desultory monochromes, a pallid beach and water, lines like furrows hurrying across empty spaces — all hang together in a jostling group.

No, I'm not talking about the awful inevitability of the «Alzheimer's Pictures»: those pallid rehashes of de Kooning's glory phase (see photo above) orchestrated by his dealer Xavier Fourcade, his estranged wife Elaine de Kooning and myriad assistants — by everyone, in fact, but the artist himself.

You will never meet the king with a soul so frail and pallid,» says the Emerald Herald.

PALLID STURGEON — In the bottom left area of John's region, around the Lamb Of God Church.

As such this clearly beats the likes of Operation Anchorage and Mothership Zeta, both of which misunderstand the appeal of the game and replace exploring thrills with pallid running - and - gunning bilge.

To admit to a Westerner that you've tasted dog flesh often conjures up reactions of pallid heaves or, on the occasion, indignation.

It was so simple: just turn the tablet upside down, so the speakers could do their thing unimpeded by the softness of our pallid flesh, and the comforting duvet.

Even in death, hadn't the deceptive blush of life stained Snow White's pallid cheeks?

Or such was Mr. Winser's determined conviction when the youthful Alix Hoban, European managing director and chief executive of Trans - Finanz Vienna, St. Petersburg and Istanbul, introduced a pallid hand into the breast of his Italian blazer and extracted neither a platinum cigarette case nor an engraved business card, but a slim blue - black automatic pistol in mint condition, and pointed it from a distance of six inches at the bridge of Mr. Winser's beakish but strictly non-violent nose.

Also opening were Gringo (STXfilms» dark comedy), which debuted with a pallid $ 2.6 million from 2,402 locations and got a C + CinemaScore, and Thoroughbreds (Focus Features» drama), which brought in a quiet $ 1.2 million from 549 theaters.

His naturally pallid skin tone works in his favor there, as does the decision to hinder him with crutches for the entire second act, causing him to strike an increasingly pitiable and desperate figure as the gaslighting sets in.

But in the process, their drug - abusing antihero, Jude Keffy - Horn (Asa Butterfield), becomes a pallid stand - in for all children raised without conventional boundaries by post-hippie parents like Harriet (Julianne Nicholson), a glass - blower in Lintonburg, Vt. (a fictionalized version of Burlington), and Les (Ethan Hawke), an artisanal marijuana dealer who left Harriet and his kids and moved his underground business to St. Mark's Place in the East Village.

But in the process, their drug - abusing antihero, Jude Keffy - Horn (Asa Butterfield), becomes a pallid stand - in for all children raised without conventional boundaries by post-hippie parents like Harriet (Julianne Nicholson), a glass - blower in Lintonburg, Vt. (a...

A sparkling script and charismatic cast injects a new burst of life into a genre that's become pallid and toothless thanks to blood - sucking franchises and adolescent fantasies and, together with Neil Marshall's recent Byzantium, resurrects the vampire as an entirely adult anti-hero.

Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.

But Tilda Swinton's pallid, clammy executive in over her head is more than matched by Saoirse Ronan, who (spoiler alert!)

Wise, given little dialogue that would explain why anyone would be drawn to Ruskin, plays him as a pallid, frightened yet controlling man - child; Fanning, on whom the film focuses, is mostly a wide - eyed cipher.

Set in a pallid, industrial city in Massachusetts, it charts a handyman as he deals with (or for the most part refuses to deal with) a mortifying mistake that robbed him of everything.

He also throws her iPhone in the trash, which I keep pointing out to others as proof that «Divorce» is not set in the 1970s or»80s — the show's pallid tones and classic FM soundtrack can make it seem that it's set in some pitiable past.

While working late one night, Max falls into a vat of electrified eels and becomes the high - voltage villain Electro — although, with his pallid skin, hooded cloak and lightning bolts shooting from his fingers, Electro amusingly (and distractingly) resembles «Star Wars» uber - villain Darth Sidious.

His wife (Amy Irving) is suicidal and his daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) is creepy, and when his wife offs herself, he bundles up his pallid, corpse - like little moppet and spirits her out to upstate New York to begin her recovery in almost total isolation during winter at a summer resort community.

Helped by screenwriting and direction that pruned away the worst excesses of E L James» largely unreadable book, Johnson even managed to imbue the pallid character of Anastasia Steele with some actual personality and wit, and became far more watchable and engaging than the material really deserved.

Her desperation is achingly believable from the start, and her nuanced portrayal is shaded with a pallid kind of love as Katie's concern for her brother twists her into an accomplice.

Still, to listen to Dirty Computer and look at Monáe's pallid chart history is to ask whether this is an industry willing to make room for black women who don't belt their wounds, those with slightly smaller, albeit gorgeous voices.

Joining a small crew of underpaid, rather dull people (mad Ernie (Maury Chaykin), belligerent Rocky (Matt Groening - sketched Joe Piscopo), and sexpot Vivian (Glenne Headly)-RRB-, pallid and peculiar Bartleby makes waves when he begins to respond to any request outside the ordinary with a slightly apologetic, «I would prefer not to.»

Alvarez instead uses a consumptive, pallid palette (gore apart).

Spirits soaring, Hank races down to his only companion, whose pallid body discharges its final fumes.

The suspense quotient inherent in these impossible odds is strangely pallid.

It gains little momentum, and the result feels a little pallid, for all its lived - in, worn - through sense of place.

But the tension is well sustained and Treadaway's performance is full of pallid intensity.

The Scottish actress has a wonderfully pallid face and soulful eyes that express every moment the determination and fear she wrestles with.

His skin is pallid and sickly and his voice sounds thick and stale.