She can still turn on a dime, but she seemed a small, pale thing.
Where will that poor, pale thing reside for the three hours, eight hours, or twelve months that its housing freezes on a hospital slab?
At first he thought it was a buoy or a boat that had come unmoored, but then the pale thing crested on a large wave, and suddenly he saw them.
Among these: using self-tanning lotion to avoid a deathly pallor ("I think the pale thing is giving me away"), anointing a cute little goth minion ("What do we need an onion for?") and redyeing vampire vestments to avoid embarrassment.
"I am a virgin and I don't play sport, or move heavy objects, or go anywhere or do anything, and so my body is this vast, sleeping, pale thing.
His roommate had something going on every night, possibly something more vibrant and exclusive than the pale thing he generally had going on, and he felt it was better to withhold the invitation than risk suffering the indignity of rejection, even if that rejection was due to a simple conflict of interest — preëxisting plans, for example.
"Pale (thing)" does not signify a kind, whereas "human being" does.
One can signify about something by saying "pale (thing)", but that does not tell you what you are signifying, e.g., a human being.
Nigel Farage, a pale thing glistening with revenge that rose up from salty and blasphemous depths to flop around against the English beaches, is gone.
