Sentence examples for pale figures from inspiring English sources

The arrangement of dark figures next to pale figures and particularly of a white figure against the dark echo each other in terms of their arrangement and they also speak of the English propertied classes.

But the pronouncements of these elderly white men from Europe, surrounded by similarly frail and pale figures, have carried increasingly less weight with the eclectic mix of Americans who call themselves Catholic and are slowly redefining the faith.(Photo credit: AFP).

These are sparely presented, one or two to a room, and with lighting superbly matched to that of the pictures themselves, with their pale figures looming out of the darkness like night creatures, held fast in knife-edge contours and sealed off by an almost alien perfection.

That "beam," when directed by a writer as thorough and intuitive as Wineapple, brightens not only the pale figures of the poet and the hitherto elusive colonel but the poems for which, upon occasion, Dickinson drew inspiration from Higginson's more active life.

But what is this pale figure rising from the mist?

This pale figure is a rare, if not unique, manifestation of the supernatural in the very modern work of Mr. Oshima.

In Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea I found the answer to Jane Eyre, that the pale figure glimpsed by Grace Poole had no idea what she was getting into.

Went from a shy man, always placing a reassuring hand on your back, to a diminished pale figure in a bed, shouting CUNT!

UNDER the storied stone atrium of the Hearst Building in Midtown, a small pale figure emerged from the elevator the other day.

But he is easy to spot: a gaunt, thin, pale figure with the slightly haunted look of someone who has spent their career in the twilight world of espionage.

But other performances also leap to mind: Eileen Atkins as a forbidding Paulina in Peter Hall's 1988 production; a genuinely pregnant Samantha Bond as Hermione in Adrian Noble's 1992 revival; and Alexandra Gilbreath, in the same role in Greg Doran's 1999 production, as a pale figure extending a compassionate hand to her tyrant husband.