pastel-colored

• “Walking down a runway designed to resemble a basketball court, the young models looked like cheerleaders in short pastel-colored frilly skirts and matching tops.”

  The Seattle Times

• “Throughout this conversation, Andrea Correa has been quietly weighing dollops of sesame paste and jotting down the quantities in her pastel-colored notebook.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Sorcerer’s Apprentices

• “An old Italian colonial building that Libyan government officials said was bombed Monday appeared half gone, with piles of rubble strewn about its elegant, pastel-colored archways.”

  USA Today: HRW: Libya rebels detained pro-Gadhafi civilians

• “I don't remember much about it -- something about a girl with a magic rainbow and pastel-colored ponies with big hair -- but I did think it was good.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “One year my little bro poured out his bag of candies and found (among the usual) a penny, a walnut and a plastic Easter egg filled with pastel-colored malted eggs.”

  Top Ten Weirdest Halloween Handouts » E-Mail

• “Just wait for the Towering Infernal of a Paulson-Portland Parking Plex to be revealed in some pince nez'd planner's pastel-colored public power point presentation, complete with a sacreligious Aaron Copeland soundtrack and the usual pre-paid phony cadre of politely enthusiastic front-and-back-row applausers.”

  Study: Lents baseball stadium would draw crummy crowds (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “In the far-flung town of Thiotte, located in the sliver of rainforest still left in Haiti, women in pastel-colored kerchiefs sit at outdoor tables piled high with pale dried Arabica coffee beans.”

  The Huffington Post: Marcia DeSanctis: On the Road in Haiti

• “A friend met me at the Ocean River Sports dock at noon; 30 minutes later, we crossed the runway and bee-lined for Fisherman's Wharf, a klatch of pastel-colored houseboats and floating restaurants on the edge of the Inner Harbour.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Victoria, By Sea

• “His frequently reproduced chocolate-boxy, saccharine-sweet, pretty little ballerinas in billowing pastel-colored tutus?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Degas and His Dancers

• “As ring-mastered by Sellars, the production is set in a traditional New Mexican 'Fiesta de Quinceañera' a girl's fifteenth birthday graduation to young adulthood, as suggested by Dunya Ramicova's pastel-colored costumes for the men and the character Costanza's traditional white ruffled, red trimmed dress.”

  The Huffington Post: Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera

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