So Burnham (brilliantly embodied by Kevin Spacey) starts off a loser - twitchy, pallid, diminished - and winds up victorious.
In The Man Who Knew Too Much, matched by Leslie Banks, Lorre cannot help but steal each scene; he's a physically present actor, often, you feel, surrounded as he is by the pallid English, the only one in the room with a body.
That history lesson done with, Mr Osborne began to relax, and a dab of colour returned to his pallid cheeks.
If she is carrying a girl surprise, surprise she will develop ulcers on her thighs, bruises on her feet and a pallid complexion.
For all her efforts, she was still as awkwardly conspicuous as those pallid, withered Westerners who came to India to find spiritual peace and caught dysentery instead.
The battle of the titans gives way to a comedy of lopsidedness: the thug is oafish, the referee is neat and pallid; the thug is a roguish crowd-charmer, the referee a timid creature of the rule book.
THERE is nothing like a booming market to put the colour back into the cheeks of Europe's pallid car industry and persuade even its weaker members that they can take on the world.
It is likely to carry on rising, even if it falls short of the 3m that looked likely in early 2009 when output was plummeting.The pallid recovery should strengthen next year as exporters, spurred by a weak pound, hit their stride.
Faced with the bloodlessly technocratic likes of Andrew Lansley, Theresa May and Chris Huhne (the health, home and energy secretaries), the Labour opposition might be forgiven for invoking Disraeli's judgment on Gladstone's front bench: "a range of exhausted volcanoes...not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest".
Indeed, by America's standards, Canada's gamble may turn out to be a pallid affair.
They also have a tendency to spread light out over a range of frequencies, resulting in pallid, pastel shades rather than crisp, bright ones.Dr Olson's proposed solution uses tiny aluminium rods.
