Paul Lauterbur

By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!

American Scientist

Laura Moser

In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.

American Author

Philip Gibbs

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

British Journalist

H. P. Lovecraft

The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.

American Novelist

Angus Deaton

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

British Economist

Robert Baden-Powell

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

English Soldier

Isabella Bird

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.

English Explorer

John Updike

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

Charles Buxton

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

English Public Servant

The noun 'pall' is often associated with funerals and conveys a sense of respect and mourning.

Funeral Usage

'Pall' in a funeral context is sensitive; it symbolizes tradition and honor in many cultures.

Cultural Sensitivity

Using 'pall' metaphorically captures the heaviness of sadness affecting an atmosphere.

Emotional Weight

When not literal, 'pall' describes a figurative 'cloud' of gloom, not actual cloud cover.

Figurative Sense

As a verb, 'pall' suggests a decline in interest, implying dissatisfaction or boredom.

Negative Connotation

Use 'pall' to indicate that repetition over time has caused the loss of interest.

Duration Aspect

'Pall' can describe the action of something becoming less appealing, often due to overexposure.

Attraction Loss

Use 'pall' to express a subtle shift towards negativity, not intense dislike.

Subtle Displeasure

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