The Only Use of
pallid
in
Brave New World
- Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.†
p. 3.4
Definition:
abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color); or anything that lacks energy or liveliness