If you were to say to the grown-ups: " I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof, " they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all.
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.
Or, if you want to know when the best time might be to cut off the grape clusters Hesiod determines it is: " when Orion and Sirius come into mid-heaven... and rose-fingered dawn meets Arcturus."
She bit her lips, and a rush of blood flowing under her skin made her red from the roots of her hair to the top of her collar. She remained standing, leaning with her shoulder against the wainscot.
And beyond all this, miles away, was the sea, and beyond the sea the sky, full of clouds which were just turning rose colour with the reflection of the sunset.
And there are other times when it's helpful to take off the rose-colored glasses, because psychologists have found that we process information differently depending on how we feel.
In many cases, the climbers underwent a sudden review of their entire past, heard beautiful music, and " fell in a superbly blue heaven containing roseate cloudlets" , Heim wrote.
To look at or see something as through rose-coloured or rose-tinted glasses is to only see the positive things about a situation and not notice the negative or unpleasant things.