Palest

Nejmi in palest, filmy yellow, her head against the door frame. ❋ Unknown (1930)

The colors themselves dazzle: blues from the palest robin's egg to the deepest cyanide and cobalt; a deep blue-black background for the white Pelicanus Americanus; crimson red and paler pinks for the flamingo; so many shades of beige, brown and gray for the owls that you can't tell where one stops and another begins; an iridescent rainbow for ducks; a psychedelic palette for finches. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

Unlike the blond Noah and Uriel, the angels before me were a variety of ethnicities, from dusky dark skin to the palest silver-blond hair. ❋ Jill Myles (2011)

Captain Carlsen was a giant hulk of a man, with gimlet eyes of palest blue, a slash-scarred mouth that a blazing red beard could not quite hide, and a grip in his hand that made Frederick squirm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It can be applied in a loose, diluted wash to paper that is already damp – a technique known as "wet on wet" – to produce the palest tint. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's not a particularly bright colour, nothing like the sunshine intensity of gorse, or a male brimstone's wings, not even as showy as the palest daffodil. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Her skin glowed palest caramel against the yellow cover, and she could have been twenty again. ❋ Gill Hoffs (2011)

To keep it sweet, make sure it doesn't get any darker than palest gold. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We conjured up rooms in the palest blonde and ice—what became interesting was how shape, texture and paint finish were the strong cards. ❋ Sara Ruffin Costello (2011)

Coral patches uprose everywhere from the turquoise depths, running the gamut of green from deepest jade to palest tourmaline, over which the sea filtered changing shades, creamed lazily, or burst into white fountains of sun-flashed spray. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rough-hewn, with rugged brow and massive jaw and unflinching eyes of palest blue, his face told the tale of one who knew but the law of might. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite being the palest of bluesmen both Johnny and his younger brother Edgar have albinism, Mr. Winter rode bombastic, amplified takes on Muddy Waters and B.B. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

Yet despite Osama bin Laden's killing in May, the dwindling of his group to the palest shadow of its former self and the protest of millions across the Arab world for whom the group never represented, Al-Qaeda holds a grasp on the Western imagination. ❋ Fawaz Gerges (2012)

Anyone familiar with the history of literary criticism going back to Coleridge or Johnson surely would read Kakutani's hapless "criticism" as the palest kind of imitation (assuming Johnson's stentorian way of asserting his opinion but none of his intelligence), unworthy of serious consideration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Look at that unctuous underglaze in the palest, almost imperceptible blue, not too glassy, not too dull, and fired with absolute evenness and consistency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The German triumvirate have plug-in and electric-car programs, too, but some seem like the palest greenwashing imaginable. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

They want to relieve her of her cashmere twinsets the palest of blue, undo her long straight skirts and let these fall to the un-vacuumed carpet, make hot love to her cold body on her cold sheets. ❋ Heather Fowler (2011)

Under his direction, more than 400 exhibitions have been installed with different looks, from dark wall trims to the palest gray walls to radiant colors and bronzed arches. ❋ Unknown (2011)