Modern sectionals in pale gray wool cozied up to the twin black-marble fireplaces of the parlor.

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If you have been traveling along the pale gray path and are not ready to dive headlong into Technicolor, keep your pale gray canvas and add some cheer to it.

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This slender paragon, wearing only a beige body sheath, lives in an immaculate pale-gray room in an expensive clinic, known as El Cigarral, just outside Toledo, Spain.

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The bath in my room had a deep cast-iron tub and floors laid with large, pale-gray stone tiles that Kime reclaimed from an embassy in Alexandria a few years ago.

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Everything has a pale brown-gray tone.

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Wearing an impeccably fitted slate gray suit with a pale yellow tie, Blackwell looked over the heads of the assembled media through his rimless glasses and began without preamble.

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His answer was to have the walls in the galleries painted in shades of gray, ranging from very pale in the 20th century displays to echo the hues of steel and aluminum associated with that era's technological advances -- to deep and dark hues in the medieval galleries.

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She was wearing a drab ensemble of gray cotton sweatpants and a loose-fitting pale-yellow knit top, and her brown hair fell in bangs just above her eyes.

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