He looks transported with excitement, and lifts his pale, slender index finger in a gesture of friendly beckoning.
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His pale-blue eyes looked watery from exhaustion, the skin of his nose polished as if by a sunburn.
He was driving his pale blue scooter in the town, when a rashly-driven SUV rammed into him from behind.
He raised his hands in the air, the zipper on his Team GB skinsuit yanked low, revealing his pale, skinny chest, where his children's names, Ben and Isabella, are tattooed in cursive over his heart.
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In a courtyard on the other side of the hospital sat Mohammed Qasam Shalub(ph), his face pale and bruised, his arm broken, the sole survivor of his family.
He rejected tubular steel as too susceptible to glare and heat and cold and went on to experiment with the steam techniques that produced his familiar pale, satiny, bentwood birch furniture, so pleasing to the hand and eye.
He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.
Despite growing up with a disorder that left his skin and hair pale, as well as his strength and eye sight weak, Torner has succeeded in making the best of his situation.
Unlike his colleagues, the pale 21-year-old held no rifle in his hands.
His skin flushed from pale blue to beige to a dappled grey, taking on the tone of every piece of coral and rock he encountered.
Hadley imagined that he would be waxy-pale beneath his shirt.
Opinion was divided over whether the peak of his game was the 1982 world championship semi-final, when he rescued a deficit of 59-0 with a break of 69 to reverse the match entirely, or the final, when he made a total clearance of 135 in the final frame (his opponent, Ray Reardon, sitting pale with disbelief) and then, in tears, called his wife and baby daughter out of the crowd to hug them.
He has a slight tan, except for a slim pale band around his wrist.
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His eyes were closed, and his face looked oddly less pale than it had in life and illness.
Virender Sehwag is looking a pale shadow of his imperious past, and the talented Gautam Gambhir is hesitant.
Far from being a voice of orthodoxy, Mr Schneider encouraged debate, and doubts, on subjects that some of his colleagues thought beyond the pale.
Mr Gore can use wonkishness to show he is no pale reflection of his boss, and advance a distinctive agenda: education, the environment, foreign policy.
Another friend tells me he was sitting in a tiny cafe having coffee a few days ago, when a young man in his 20s turned up, pale and shaken.
As I looked up I saw the wings of a ghostly pale owl fold into his body as he disappeared into a tree.
Sargent is most consistently at his best here in works with pale washes and overlays of other washes, rather than where the color saturation is dense.
Many of them pale in comparison with his later works, yet Koontz was buoyed by fan letters, and he convinced himself that his rise from journeyman to bestselling author was imminent.
Former major-league outfielder So Taguchi, who played alongside Ichiro for nine seasons in Japan, said Ichiro understands what these milestones mean "4, 000 hits, what a number, " Taguchi said but that they now pale in comparison to his desire for a championship.
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Taking up his palette, he then brushed in the pale sunlight pouring across her face.
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The captain was a short, stocky man, with a greasy fringe of pale hair that jutted out beyond his hat.
The demands the media is making on Mulally pale in comparison to those coming from his board as they met last week in Detroit with succession planning on the agenda.
The rail-thin Thomassin, all angles and scars and wounded bravado behind his scruffy mustache, and Beaugrand, a tall, pale beauty who hunches her shoulders and bows her head and peers out from beneath her brow through a floppy lock of hair, energetically tangle and trade etched phrases and aggressive silences in fluid long takes that seem composed of a series of sculptural tableaux.
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