(1) First was the fact that from the age of 27 to his current age of 61, Valle had sat on death row: a total of 33 years under the shadow of the gallows.
(2) It not only prevents you from stealing things out of frustration, but might even save you from the gallows one day.
(3) Jordison, who was moved to "return to the scene of the crime" with a recent trip to Morecambe, says that while the gallows humour that characterised the first book and its follow-up is unlikely to disappear, the latest volume will probably be rather darker.
(4) The previous week, campaigners carried a mock gallows with a noose labelled for Merkel.
(5) "My friend Billy's at the match and he's said the atmosphere in Belo is the best of all of the cities he's been to and he's loved the build up and the gallows humour.
(6) No amount of choreographed fireworks or musical pageantry can mask that this is little more than a public hanging, and there is no honour in summoning the world to our gallows.
(7) Along the path runs a silhouetted Pip, the last vestiges of sunlight again twinkling off the water as he passes two unoccupied gallows, a sorry bunch of dry flowers in one hand, clouds smeared across the sky like oil paint.
(8) Ministers fearing the worst will be indulging in gallows humour with their private offices; those in a more optimistic frame of mind might be turning their thoughts to a bright tie to be photographed in when they complete their hoped-for happy waltz out of No 10. Who is safe?
(9) After the PKK leader’s capture in 1999, Öcalan was sentenced to life imprisonment on the island of Imrali, in the Sea of Marmara, saved from the gallows only by pressure from the European Union.
(10) In the footage, only distant people, moving vehicles and what appears to be a gallows covered in black cloth are visible.
(11) I sometimes think these people would bring back the rack, the whip and the gallows if "vital for national security".
(12) The video appeared to show the same screened gallows structure seen in still photographs taken during its construction.
(13) The first Mexican wave began after 15 minutes, which is always a sign that there is not much happening on the pitch, and England’s supporters could be heard going through the now-familiar repertoire of gallows-humour chants.
(14) In fact they're not – they are journalists, pollsters, aides and MPs, waiting their turn at makeshift steps which could be leading up to a gallows.
(15) Priebus, who has been noted for his gallows humor, is not known as a “go-with-the-flow” type.
(16) It would be funnier if they showed him decked out in full 70s glam gear throughout, being led to the gallows in a big spangly costume with shoulder pads so huge they get stuck in the hole as he plunges through.
(17) That’s where I’ll be.” It is hard not to salute the head coach’s gallows humour, and his determination to ensure England take their leave with at least a modicum of grace and self-respect.
(18) He sent Björk to the gallows in Dancer in the Dark , arranged a gang-rape for Nicole Kidman's heroine in Dogville , and had Gainsbourg's character take a pair of scissors to her genitals in 2009's Antichrist .
(19) With luck I will be able to stop singing forever, which would make many people happy!” Besides this gallows humour, Morrissey reiterated that he had been dismissed by his label , complaining that Harvest Records boss Steve Barnett “does not like artists to give their opinion”.
(20) Even in such a depressing situation, there is time for a bit of gallows humour.
Sallow
Definition:
(n.) The willow; willow twigs.
(n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
(superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
(v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
(2) In her autobiography she writes, “Oh, the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board!” Just as Fowles claimed to have found his inspiration for Sarah Woodruff in a dream of a strange, sallow-faced woman staring out to sea, so, too, I imagined a woman riding proudly on to Devon’s shores, standing upright on a board.
(3) 28.70% had typical facial looks of anaemia and sallow complexion.
(4) Clinical changes included decreases in surface roughness, irregular pigmentation, fine and coarse wrinkling, and sallowness.
(5) By counting the spores of protozoon Nosema apis Z. in Bürker's chamber the author was able to find, in 1495 caged bees sacrificed one week after the parasite invasion, from altogether 26 samples of various feeds statistically sifnificant differences of influencing the protozoon development only in sallow pollen.
(6) Clinically, patients experience decreased wrinkling, improved texture, and pinkening of sallow skin.
(7) Many disused railways have been turned into green footpaths, but this had been abandoned and enveloped in hawthorn, sallow and elder, with the occasional fly-tipped fridge thrown from a bridge.
(8) The forlorn expression and the sallow complexion, I'm sorry to say, are the model's own.
(9) Come, friendly caterpillars Inspired by the landscaping of Milton Keynes (which was conceived as a forest city), I’ve just planted 150 shoots of sallow in my garden.
(10) When compared with vehicle, treatment with isotretinoin resulted in statistically significant improvement in overall appearance, fine wrinkling, discrete pigmentation, sallowness, and texture.
(11) Young off-duty local waiters for the most part, sallow and saturnine or handsomely jowly, smoking furiously between sets in the high cold frozen sun before they diligently remount the high cold frozen metal stairs past a flutter of busy-bee BBC continuity wizards: loop-fed multilingual script editors with one eye and one ear on the monitor, one ear clamped to a headphone, chill mittened fingers rewinding pages, an impossible third ear half-tuned to shouted stage directions.
(12) Unlike the dapper Derrida, Žižek is a sight for sore eyes: pale to the point of sallow, bearded, overweight and effortlessly eccentric.
(13) Labour MPs looked sallow, in expectation of defeat.
(14) 75% of patients had increased specific IgE-titres against these pollens whereas maple, poplar, elm, sallow and ash allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.
(15) Her face is sallow; there are shadows under her eyes.
(16) Examination of 1260 bees 14 days after the invasion demonstrated that, as compared with glycide food, the parasite development was enhanced by a feed consisting of 6, 9, and 12 per cent fresh rape pollen, 3 and 6 per cent of fresh and dried sallow pollen, 6 per cent freeze-dried pollen mixture, pollen deposited in honeycombs, 7.5, 10, and 12.5 per cent yeast dough, "Arnika" and 3 per cent Bacto peptone.
(17) Patulin was found in fruit with spontaneous brown rot (bananas, pineapples, grapes, peaches, apricots) as well as in moldy compots and in sallow-thorn juice.
(18) Chronic renal failure, regardless of its cause, often produces xerosis, pruritus, sallow hyperpigmentation, and nail changes.
(19) I was a shallow, sallow, thoroughly unwell shithead with delusions of grandeur, but it was all I knew how to be.
(20) Positive reactions, often of high intensity, were most often found with birch, alder, bog-myrtle, beech and hazel allergens whereas oak, aspen, linden, elm, sallow, maple and poplar allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.