Then our teachers, pale faces, somber looks, slowly guided all of us into a large eerily dark meeting room.
As in Aleppo, the second largest city, residents in Damascus say the mood has grown more somber as hardships grow, though they pale before those in Homs.
The once dark and somber bar now has chairs of pale beech wood and a marble counter that is nearly white.
One evening, there were shimmers of water in black wedges and ribbons striped with baby-pink, gold, pale yellow and apricot wavelets, while another brought somber blue, gold, and amaranth.
Victoire's pale, brooding face and long, emaciated torso against a somber ground speaks eloquently of her illness, but she is resolutely dressed to the nines, with jewelry around her neck and rings on her elegant, oddly placed hands.
For example, it can drain pale skin tones or it can simply make some people feel too somber and dour.
The filmed Byrne persona often conveys a still, somber, romantically charged restraint, and he has the kind of features - pale skin, black hair, vivid blue eyes, a commanding nose given special character by four breaks - that the camera dotes on.
Far from being somber, its delicate mosaics in gold and floral colors, designed by A. Guilbert-Martin -- pinks, blues, pale greens and yellows -- are light and fresh.
