Without attempting to lower some Pollyannaish veil or rosy-colored lens on a tragedy in which a score of people were killed and maimed, there are positive aspects to the story which bear pointing out. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)
She had close to no cleavage at all, but her nipples were erect, like two rosy-colored buttons. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While some would gladly have sent their opponents to the nearest guillotine, most operated on the rosy-colored assumption that sweet reason would be sufficient in and of itself to usher in a kinder, gentler millennium. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Contrary to the rosy-colored projections of the incorrigible optimists, whose ranks include Dubya himself, the price will not be rock-bottom or what those assets are truly worth (in many cases, there may not be a difference). ❋ Alan Abelson (2008)
He was just like those sloe-eyed princes in the old stories, who rode out of the desert and kidnapped pining dark maidens and took them to palaces built of rosy-colored stone in the midst of a beautiful oasis. ❋ Unknown (2006)
LEVIN: Well, the bottom line is that that assessment of the vice president is a rosy-colored scenario just the way going into Iraq was rose-colored. ❋ Unknown (2005)
His mind even turned to rosy-colored dreams of a tender reconciliation inside the camel — there hidden away from all the world .... ❋ Unknown (2003)
We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Suddenly a warm red glow fell on the grass at her feet; she looked back again -- she had not remembered how splendid it was, nor seen anything to compare to it in her dreams -- for there the two high mountain peeks rose into the air like two great flames, the whole snow-field had turned crimson, and rosy-colored clouds floated in the sky above. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Some people who we would characterize as having a very positive emotional disposition have higher activity in the left pre-frontal cortex, and these are individuals who are resilient, optimistic, see the world through rosy-colored glasses. ❋ Unknown (2000)
A rosy-colored delphinium looked interesting, as did the bright yellow coreopsis. ❋ Mariah Stewart (1998)
His eyes glimmered in some faint meandering light that filtered through the heavy draperies, for what light was in his eyes wasn't rosy-colored. ❋ Andrews, V. C. (1979)
It flamed now in the fireplace with a good steady heat, and made a warm and rosy-colored light so bright there was at times a flicker of red like a blush on the walls. ❋ Harriette Arnow (1954)
To explain: everybody knows _Spirea callosa_ to be a strong growing shrub, having umbels of rosy-colored flowers and strong, stout roots; the white flowered variety is quite dwarf, is more leafy and bushy than the species, and has more fibrous and delicate roots than the type; the crisp-leaved variety is still more dwarf, very bushy, and very leafy, and has very fine threadlike roots. ❋ Various (N/A)
His mind even turned to rosy-colored dreams of a tender reconciliation inside the camel -- there hidden away from all the world .... ❋ Unknown (1918)