"Gabe looked across the empty restaurant, over the pink-tinged table linens and leather-backed chairs, the silver that glinted here and there in the shreds of autumn sun, the chandelier, ugly as a bejeweled dowager, the polished oak bar that, without a single elbow propped on it, was too dark and infected with loneliness to look at for very long."
"That crystallised many Republicans' suspicions that the Nobel committee is controlled by conceited pink-tinged European socialist extremists."
"One moment I was bowling along the seafront towards pink-tinged cliffs, the next the road descended a ramp into the sea."