palely

• “Simmering palely over the huge oval stage like morning mist, tutus spread out like water lilies, they work the poetic metaphors of the titular lake more thoroughly than any production I know.”

  The Guardian: Swan Lake

• “This pallid, anemic Rod-husk seems to have been drained of the life-force, palely loitering, limp and impotent, on the fringes of abject submission to the Guardian-Independent ethos of brillo-bearded, sandal-shod, bleeding-heart piety.”

  Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...

• “Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality.”

  An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …

• “They came at her, faces too much in shadow to see more than palely gleaming eyes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Moon of Avalon

• “She was standing at the very edge of the place where the circles joined, magic glowing palely at her feet.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Demons Covenant

• “I went along to see Ivan, who was sitting palely in his study while noises from his bedroom next door suggested bed-making and the tidying of bottles.”

  Fictionaut: They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff

• “There was a peach-coloured cloth and napkins on the breakfast table, palely echoing the heavy curtains drawn back from the window.”

  Fictionaut: Politics 101

• “He had taken off shoes and socks; his bare feet at the other end of the blanket stuck up palely in the darkness.”

  Fictionaut: Autumn

• “It head flickers palely with the moonlight that Wayland Smith; hammered into the steel.”

  Fictionaut: The Clique

• “It is full of feelings – full of sadness, regret, and ultimately, hopefulness – but they are palely lurking behind the page, hiding between the lines.”

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