And her voice conveyed as many shadings as Ms. Uchida's playing: a paleness for the text about the pale washerwoman toiling by a stream at night; a scratchy tone to suggest the scraping of Pierrot's grotesquely huge bow against the strings of his viola.
Fainting tends to be preceded first by paleness, nausea, and sweating and then by dilatation of the pupils, yawning, deeper and more rapid breathing, and a rapid heartbeat.
His palette was low-key, and much of his work has a silvery paleness.
Mallon was thrown by his anger and the dissonant paleness of his eyes, and before he could reply the driver seized the pickpocket's jacket and gave him a shake.
In fact, he is the son of black parents, but his paleness of skin led him to deny his origins and cross over to the white side of life.
While we stood there, a storm came up the river, and you could see almost its entire extent — the dark clouds, the advancing netlike pattern of smooth and rippled water beneath the clouds, the wispy paleness of the rain.
The meal's monochromatic paleness was disheartening, but Candy dug into the oatmeal with a spoon and lifted it to El Lobo's mouth.
Of course his shaved head, fluorescent paleness and a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow don't hurt the cause.
There were the barely detectable, chilling breaks between the words "Es ist gnug, Herr" ("It is enough, Lord") in Bach's "Liebster Herr Jesu"; the stark paleness of his tone on the line "Then up the hill and down the hill" in the folk song "The Bitter Withy"; the small diminuendo on the final "Hallelujah" of Purcell's "Lord, What Is Man," which summed up in a moment the song's ambiguous mood.
Glance in any direction, at any moment, and you will see a comprehensive color wheel of sun damage and paleness.
Mr. Koonin said he was unlikely to alter the schedule much when Mr. O'Brien arrived, even on Wednesday night; Mr. O'Brien — who often mocks his own "paleness" — is not known for attracting black viewers.
