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In the South Atlantic a weird little war palely recalled Britain's glory days.
A palely muscled man with sad, noble features twists as if electrocuted, his body jolting into a lightning-fast sequence of dislocations.
The book's title, underlined with a vivid splash of red; above, the three doomed girls stare palely and interestingly into space.
Ruffalo is terrific as a likeable doofus whose existence is one extended male mid-life crisis, and Hutcherson and Wasikowska (last seen palely loitering as Tim Burton's Alice) have fun as bemused, tolerant observers of adult folly.
She was just twenty-three when she poured puddles of paint, in palely glowing colors, onto a cotton canvas to produce "Mountains and Sea" (1952), which is the Rosetta stone of color-field (it's in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington), despite the fact that it bears drawn lines and a redolence of landscape.
(Not for him the little eunuch toms of Kenney Jones, who palely succeeded Moon in The Who, after his death).
"The North Ship," for instance, with most of its thirty-two poems titled simply, as originally, with Roman numerals instead of, as in the first "Collected," an empty iteration, in bigger type, of the first line, acquires a collective personality, that of a palely loitering prewar knight seeking to work out a murky relationship — though it seems to be he, and not the belle dame, who lacks mercy.
When Ive and his wife were photographed among the tanned and lacquered guests at San Francisco fund-raisers, they looked palely handsome and a little puzzled, as if misdirected from the set of a Jane Austen adaptation.
There is no use pointing out that there are cabarets and cabarets, from the palely innocuous Lido-Venice to the colorful and more rowdy Club Richmond.
This Torre team, transformed by the departure of Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte and the arrival of expensive superstars like Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, and the fragile and palely hostile Kevin Brown, struggled glumly in the early weeks, perhaps distracted by its opening visiting-celebrity series against the Devil Rays, which was played in Japan.
In a land of chunky, garish, anxiousto-please books, Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel, "Cosmopolis" (Scribner; $25), is physically cool, as sleek and silver-touched and palely pure as a white stretch limo, which is in fact the action's main venue.
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The adverb "palely" primarily functions to modify verbs or adjectives , indicating a quality of being pale or lacking intensity. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage in various contexts, highlighting its ability to subtly alter the meaning of the words it modifies.
Expression frequency: Common
