Like his pupil Oscar Wilde – who willingly dirtied his pale hands in Ruskin's campaign to mend roads in Oxford as a demonstration of the dignity of labour – he was his own invention.
The color is somewhat buff-brown on the margin, and fades gradually to pale dirty tan to dirty cinnamon-brown.
Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive, whining repeatedly that he was in a hurry and had more important things to do".This is the only direct evidence Mr Cornwell offers.
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At the end of a tawny meadow of unmown knee-high grass and clouded ponds, I came across a chipped neo-Classical facade that seemed like a lost soul from the Age of Reason — imagine Jefferson's Monticello on a vast scale, painted a pale dirty yellow and fronted with a soaring double colonnade of flaking Corinthian columns.
Although the damage caused by a dirty bomb would pale in comparison to that caused by a true nuke, experts fear that such bombs could still cause panic and possible injury or death by spreading radioactive material over potentially large areas.
It is generally white, but may discolor to pale dirty cream from the base up.
Standing before me was my dirty, stick thin, pale, sunken-eyed son.
For starters, Rotbard says, Tel Aviv isn't white it's a pale, dirty monochrome.
Balochistan's dirty little war pales beside Pakistan's larger problems – the Taliban, al-Qaida, political upheaval.
