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  • s  having a pale face

  • The three accused, pale-faced and trembling, knelt.
  • In the bustling seventh-floor newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a .
  • Thakur and Goenka point to pale-faced conquerors from Britain and central Asia who forcefully instilled a reverence for whiteness.
News & Articles

  • Snowden hardly stood out at NSA
    The National Security Agency is the size of a small town, with more than 30,000 employees and as much variety. There are blue-haired iconoclasts who work in their socks, buttoned-down military types and pale-faced introverts who avoid eye contact in the hallways.
    June 22, 2013 - Stars and Stripes
Quotes

  • Jim Allister in Irish Times
    Just take a look around you,said Allister. "Have you ever seen more pale-faced, long-faced individuals - many people worried about their P45s from the Assembly. I think it's written right across their faces."
  • John Sedgwick in Wall Street Journal
    It is dramatically fitting that Warhol -- the novus homo, the new man, the "pale-faced, hollow-hearted immigrant's kid" from a steel town -- should have been the one who "destroyed her," as Mr. Sedgwick writes.
  • Wang Dong in China Daily
    We saw a young woman, pale-faced, running desperately in the exhibition hall from one end to the other, and several security staff followed her, while shouting at their walkie-talkies...... it looked as if something terrible had happened,said...

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