Sentence examples for pale bloodless from inspiring English sources
The pale, bloodless guardians of the English novel, so the argument went, simply couldn't cope with his comedy, his rumbustiousness, his Jewishness, his pungent, balls-out assaults on good taste.
In a defining act, the doctor who examines Joss's corpse overwrites in "large childish letters" the word male with the word female on the death certificate, then goes out into the "pale, bloodless light" of a new morning – and blood is important in a book that so profoundly declares itself to be about parenting, family and, crucially, the role the imagination plays in these matters.
Du Bois trembled: "God Surely Thou, too, are not white, O Lord, a pale, bloodless, heartless thing!
Not only did the penalty alleviate the pressure on United, the controversy diverted some scrutiny from a performance that was bloodless in the first half and pale in the second.
I saw that, done properly, this should be a nearly bloodless job, the rug falling away, the meat sheathed in pale membrane.
In the book, Mr. Shackley came across as cold, calculating, almost bloodless -- "weird," one colleague described him, recalling Mr. Shackley's manner and pale features.
Hence the bleached and bloodless hues of Judith's apartment, and the coolly abstract look of her lovemaking, with its closeups of a pale hand against black fabric; hence, too, the level tone in which she, Nicolas, and her husband — a Schubert-revering pharmacist, who reads Leopardi in bed — tend to utter their lines as if reciting from a book.
Dorothy's face was bloodless.
