He wore a violet satin shirt that stood out in the sea of standard tuxedos, and traded exercise tips with Finnish ministers.
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The only decorative touch was a tiny violet, a sprig of pea shoots and a pale broad-bean flower.
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In a romantic violet, Ralph Rucci sent out a coat in sable, while Alexander Wang stayed mostly with grays for big coats paired with fur hand warmers to the elbow.
It was a royal violet, and he paid to have it tailored into a two-piece outfit, with a flame-like flourish of orange brocade on the bodice.
The defence minister, A.K. Antony of the Congress Party, usually a shrinking violet, refused.
His game-winning score that night should go some distance toward ending his reputation as a shrinking violet who gets pouty under distress.
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"She doesn't strike me as a shrinking violet, " Rhodebeck said.
In 2002 Mr Pace received a vellum award for a rescue with the Robert and Violet involving a yacht called Annarchy, which was being blown out to sea with two members of crew on board after its engine failed.
One moment, the ethereal white or green curtains of light with a streak of violet take on forms that evoke the ancient mythology of the north - a palace of lights, a Sami fire in the wilderness, the prow of a Viking ship.
Nine consumer electronics firm agreed in February to standardize and promote a new format called "Blu-ray Disc" that uses a shortwave blue-violet laser to read more than two hours of high-definition content stored on a DVD-size platter.
They'd offered to give me a tour of the Violet Canal and the Mississippi River Gulf Outflow, which will have to be cleared of all kinds of debris before it's safe to move their fishing boats.
Everything stalls the union of the thirtyish San Francisco couple formed by Tom Solomon (Jason Segel), a skilled sous-chef, and Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt), who has a Ph.
Teresa Quinn from Lincolnshire is a full-time carer for her mother Violet, who developed Parkinson's disease and dementia following a stroke.
The Ripken family released a statement expressing gratitude for Violet Ripkin's safe return.
If Jobs had been cool, the undercurrent suggested, he would have given the writer, Violet Blue, a big hug.
Mr. BERNS: We can see that, in fact, this quinacridone violet is really a very bad match under gallery lighting.
"She was wearing a tulip dress and had violet eyes, " he recalled.
"Minus the Four Poofs and a Piano and the bright violet colours, the show if anything looks classier, but the content is almost identical to its BBC predecessor, " commented Metro Online.
"Singapore is a melting pot, which helps to create great cuisine, like in New York and London, " says Violet Oon, who runs a Singapore food consultancy and is the author of two cookbooks.
We find ourselves at Seven Oaks College, where a bouquet of female students is bunched together: Violet (Greta Gerwig), Heather (Carrie MacLemore), Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), and a newcomer by the name of Lily (Analeigh Tipton).
Water hyacinth grows into a thick bed of waxy leaves and violet flowers that cover the surface of the lake.
At tastings, I often find myself jotting down descriptors such as pale in color with floral aromatics of violet and rose, and a fresh acidity.
Compounded from violet-golden clay and a mixture of burnt feldspar, limestone, quartz and plant ash, the glaze is prepared from recipes that have often been handed down for generations by teachers or within families.
Greed and its punishment is everywhere, whether it's Violet Beauregarde swelling up into a blueberry in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory or the child in Matilda who is forced to eat a whole chocolate cake.
The action of ultra-violet light from the sun on a molecule called 7-dehydrocholesterol, found in the skin, turns it into the vitamin.
Construction narrowly missed a cemetery in the town, where horses are corralled by rock walls and scatterings of purple and violet flowers from bougainvillea vines and jacaranda trees compete with the view of a creek that is littered with garbage.
SmartWater has a chemical fingerprint that links to a crime scene and is only visible under ultra violet light.
He moved to embrace her, which would normally have been acceptable to placid Violet, except that she seemed somehow armored, wearing a backpack and carrying a shoebox.
Australia's latest hunk du jour, , Adam Garcia, plays Kevin, a young man who falls head-over-heels in love with Violet.
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