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