Songs focus on the new normal, not the rose-tinted past.
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Wearing rose-tinted sunglasses, Mr. Harward was alternately wry and emotional.
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When it came to rose-tinted glasses, their photos were surprisingly real.
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"Silicon Valley has a way of putting on rose tinted glasses," Weinstein said.
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They were not Hallmark movie-perfect, rose-tinted or anything of the sort.
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Nor is there any of Julian Fellowes's rose-tinted nostalgia in Genet's script.
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Wargroove taps into the same energy, but doesn't just play rose-tinted melodies.
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She paired the dramatic color with long bangs and a rose-tinted lip color.
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According to today's rose-tinted nostalgia, he at least ensured that Tunisians had work.
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We push forward mid-week with rose-tinted glasses and a sense of personal philosophy.
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When you take the rose-tinted glasses of memory off, things looks distinctly less flawless.Ahem.
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Eight years later, more than a few Egyptians view the past through rose-tinted glasses.
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The environment are astonishingly lush, and it feeds into the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia.
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A rose-tinted narrative of the British Empire was also peddled to its colonial subjects.
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This game feels like it's looking at the wrong things through its rose-tinted glasses.
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Lots of self-styled "reformers" had good reason to observe DCPS through rose-tinted glasses.
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That said, we shouldn't force ourselves to view our astrological identities through rose-tinted glasses, either.
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It's a dreamy visual that has the rose-tinted aesthetic of a cherished memory in action.
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The shift from practical Virgo season to rose-tinted Libra season is always a tricky one.
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Everything is rose-tinted, yet still goth and sexy since Venus is pretty smutty in Scorpio.
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Ditto "Factfulness ... Why Things Are Better Than You Think," by Hans Rosling, another rose-tinted power book.
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But when it comes to smartwatches, the OLED TV analogy is their rose-tinted, best-case scenario.
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It's easy to see working-class perspectives through a rose-tinted lens that assumes they're inherently progressive.
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She's always on the search for happiness but she doesn't see the world through rose tinted glasses.
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To help countries overcome dictatorial rulers, the international community must first take off its rose-tinted glasses.
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"I think my initial reservation was that it could be overly rose-tinted and patriotic," he said.
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Many Egyptians now view Mubarak's reign through rose-tinted lenses, when stability, the economy, and tourism were stronger.
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Like I was secretly born with rose-tinted hair that turned a dusky shade of brunette come puberty.
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The book is devoid of the back-in-the-day, rose-tinted nostalgia that besets similar archival projects.
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But it was a sweet beginning and so I look back at that summer with rose-tinted glasses.
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Music has changed so much since the admittedly sprawling era I'm looking back on with rose-tinted glasses.
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Even though we like to remember those years through rose-tinted rave goggles, it was a bleak time.
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But they were disappointed by the movie's rose-tinted storytelling that ultimately glossed over the nuance in Mercury's story.
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But to imagine Pleistocene hunters as apex predators might be viewing the history of hominins through rose-tinted glasses.
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Mr Irwin says that people sometimes view the history of the post-war trading system with rose-tinted glasses.
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It's full of rose-tinted warmth, even when creeping into the coldest and darkest corners of Peters' daily life.
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Are 3-D spectacles any more reliable than rose-tinted ones, when we seek to imagine an ideal society?
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But it's also one told primarily through rose-tinted lenses by people who remain in leadership positions at Frontier.
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Later, Harriet's employer picks her up in a limousine with "rose-tinted windows" to drive down a gingerbread road.
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Obama's comments regarding Israel's "military and security community" being supportive of the deal are rose-tinted but, strictly speaking, correct.
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Hype and sales of the recent 20th anniversary eShop ports will almost exclusively come from rose-tinted, decades-old fondness.
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Today many Egyptians view Mubarak's reign through rose-tinted glasses as a time when stability, the economy and tourism were stronger.
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Nah, me neither to be honest—too much has happened since, rendering everything before the Brexit vote a rose-tinted fantasy.
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He bemoaned the Soviet system's imperfections while mounting rose-tinted defences of its achievements and wince-making attacks on the West.
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But let me break down why '21994s tech sucked and why you're probably remembering the era through thick rose-tinted glasses.
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We only share stories of entrepreneurs who have "made it" and they tell their story through rose tinted glasses in reverse.
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Venus is challenged by your planetary ruler Saturn on Thursday, providing a sobering realism to Venus in Libra's rose-tinted idealism.
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It would be a very farsighted optimist, sporting the strongest of rose-tinted shades, who could believe that Trump might learn something.
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These ideas invoke a Britain that never was, with a rose-tinted view that belies our mixed history of colonialism and progression.
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It's not know where it started, but thousands of people have recently shared photos of their iPhone-inspired new rose-tinted tresses.
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"Only the previous year the label was on the verge of financial crisis; it wasn't all rose-tinted glasses," Helayel told You.
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After all, close family are pre-programmed to look at me with rose-tinted vision due to an excess of shared genes.
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For all the flak Pisces get for their dreamy, rose-tinted outlook, their opinions can provide a welcome challenge during a discussion.
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Everyone who dreams of moving to New York City has that one rose-tinted fantasy of what they hope to find here.
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In the Empire, she wore a pink three-piece suit, pink crocheted cap, pink belly-dancer top, and enormous rose-tinted glasses.
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The red dragon of the Welsh flag is reflected on the Dragon Wall, with its rose-tinted pictures of mothers and grandmothers.
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She said she was pretending to be the "cool girl" for Paul but realized she was just looking through rose-tinted glasses.
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I wondered whether Younger was giving us a classic, Sex and the City–style, rose-tinted portrayal of the publishing industry, too.
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We only see movies and TV shows about the protests that worked, and even then, they're shown to us through rose-tinted film.
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For every subsection of the student life website, there will be a meme discussing the same campus feature without the rose-tinted glasses.
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This abuse of memory sets the soundtrack for Brexit Britain: a pseudo-sincere yearning for yesteryear, looking back in anger through rose-tinted glasses.
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The actress and model accessorized her edgy silver pixie cut with mismatched earrings, rose-tinted glasses, and a silver ring for her bottom lip.
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Allison, however, comes from a place of knowledge: she knows they're rose tinted, and her one-liners are often delivered as a reflection on that.
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We tell ourselves that dogs like hugs and that cats actually have a sense of loyalty, despite Science refuting both of these rose-tinted hopes.
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Both shine a light on the subculture—one through the rose-tinted glasses of its acolytes, the other from the perspective of an aghast voyeur.
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And he could hardly hide his contempt for Swedes he considered naive fools who had put the country in peril with their rose-tinted worldview.
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"We haven't been wearing rose-tinted glasses, we never harbored illusions, so there is nothing to be disappointed in," he said during a conference call.
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All quite true, no doubt, but at the same time a revealing mix of nostalgia and rose-tinted memory, foundation myth, and, now, packaged bohemianism.
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The rose-tinted ones (above, left) will improve visibility around dawn and dusk, and on the darker, gloomier days the sky has to offer us.
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Ryabkov said Trump's allies had made some tough statements about Russia during the campaign and that his ministry was therefore not harbouring any "rose-tinted" hopes.
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Life is but a dream and you're seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses for a quarter of this year, from mid-February through mid-April.
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There is no propaganda, no brainwashing and no rose-tinted stories of happy-go-lucky communist do-gooders tricking kids into drinking the Marxist Kool-Aid.
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Reduced to her brassiere and rose-tinted panties, she recalled that a recent visit to her former home in Baton Rouge, La., brought her to tears.
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Of course, it's not all rose-tinted memories: looking back on the earliest issues of Nintendo Power, it often feels like a poorly-written company propaganda device.
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But even for those who haven't, there's always the memory of the time we spent together that we can look back on fondly, through rose-tinted glasses.
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By obscuring the details in a cloudy, rose-tinted haze, Blake's approach is supposed to strip away the corny elements, leaving something purer and more genuinely emotional.
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" Likewise, she loses her virginity to him not because she's chasing a rose-tinted version of romance, but because "sex would hurt and she wanted it to.
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In its frankness at every level, and its refusal to put on rose-tinted glasses, Cowgirl Blues achieves something special: it's an album that tells the truth.
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In fact, the entire vibe is to tell these extremely crucial stories but with a certain degree of positivity and hope; through a hard but rose-tinted glass.
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ANDY EDSTROMLos Angeles Your review of Adrian Tinniswood's "The Long Weekend" asserts that the "English country house casts a long, rose-tinted shadow" ("Partying, hunting, shooting", May 7th).
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"New Year's Day" is vintage Swift to a far greater degree than any of Reputation's singles, harking back to Red with its rose-tinted memories and one-liners.
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Now the woman who just wants everyone to feel good gets an equally flushed tribute in "Ask Dr. Ruth," Ryan White's rose-tinted overview of a remarkable life.
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But they're as good (if not as original) as BioShock or Half-Life 2, beloved games with stories that, looking back, are messier than our rose-tinted memories suggest.
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I walked away from the Crackdown 3 demo thinking it's less like the actual game Crackdown and more like the rose-tinted memories I have of playing that game.
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You can shop these rose-tinted gems through September at Baldor and Fresh Direct in the east coast or at your local Whole Foods if you're in Northern California.
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Young Chinese, who, unlike older generations, rarely speak any Russian and have no rose-tinted memories of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s, are particularly prone to nationalist fervor.
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Titles with great gameplay at their very centers will usually remain incredibly enjoyable once we throw away the rose-tinted glasses and gaze upon them with more experienced eyes.
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"We haven't been wearing rose-tinted glasses, we never harbored illusions, so there is nothing to be disappointed in," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
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In the glossy modern era, Wembley has been the home of exhibition football, and in the rose-tinted past, it was the scene of several extremely disappointing results for Arsenal.
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The Vogue Paris cover girl perfectly coordinated her new do with her ensemble matching the white, pink and purple locs to her oversized sweatshirt and rose-tinted Sunday Somewhere sunnies.
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Spanning 15,000 light-years, the galaxy displays massive and violent bursts of star formation, as shown by the hot, young, and blue stars scattered throughout the galaxy's rose-tinted core.
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From the mandarin orange trench coat and hot pink sweater dress to the rose tinted sunglasses and leather mini, we're having a hard time picking just one thing to buy.
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One might, at a pinch, argue that these rose-tinted images are a necessary dose of balm, like an old black-and-white film about village fetes and cucumber sandwiches.
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Libertarians are unlikely to object to any of this, of course, but it really is long overdue that the rose-tinted glasses came off the liberal view of tech companies.
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Anyone who pretends the ring somehow prevents stalling in a standing clinch is wearing rose tinted glasses because just as many PRIDE fights turned into clinch slogs as UFC fights.
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Both games are more than just simple distraction; they offer a glimpse into our pasts, not through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia, but in a mechanical, muscle-memory way.
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PaRappa the Rapper's popularity in the original PlayStation period, and rose-tinted memories of it since, marked 1996's cutesy rhyme-along exercise as likely remaster-in-waiting long ago.
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Since he and his particular brand of shimmering, often rose-tinted Americana clambered to fame in the late 2000s with The Gaslight Anthem, Brian Fallon's lyrics have created a specific mythology.
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More recently, Del Rey shared a video of herself (with a rose-tinted filter, of course) singing along to Grande's "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored" on her Instagram stories.
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And it's not just imagining the conversations Biden and Obama have been having lately: there's also a good amount of rose-tinted reminiscing over what Biden looked like in his prime.
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Rose-tinted history remembers the revolutionary effect of punk culture—the DIY ethos, resistance to police harassment, widely influential music—but what's largely forgotten is the body count it left behind.
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Even without Matty's rose-tinted glasses, you're guaranteed to love these supremely simple wings that are fried and then tossed in a mixture of Frank's hot sauce, butter, and Creole seasoning.
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He's unwilling to do the long distance thing, which seems like a dick move — but as we peel back the rose-tinted memories, it's clear things have been rocky for a while.
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You find comfort, safety, and happiness in what you already know — and if you're in the right mood, you can end up viewing familiar people and settings through extremely rose-tinted glasses.
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Rose-tinted memories of United's nineties success allow Keane's violence to be fetishized in a way that Marouane Fellaini's is not, even though both players have become victims of their own physicality.
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While the glitter makeup of years past is relatively easy to find again, it's rose-tinted highlights and cotton-candy braids that are fully back in focus after New York Fashion Week.
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But in the wake of 2020, they should take off their rose tinted glasses and make a cold calculation about who wants to see them succeed and who wants to see them destroyed.
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But it's looked at with rose-tinted glasses by people who didn't see it and it's built up to be something more than it was, so they think we must've been the best.
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The BBC has yet to announce a transmission date, but internet speculation is rife as to whether the new episodes will live up to (probably quite rose-tinted memories) of its cult predecessor.
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Housed on a lush 400-acre setting with Mediterranean tile work, the Fairmont Grand Del Mar feels pristine with arched windows, curved staircases, and a rose-tinted facade that resembles a European palace.
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Left behind, ignored, irrelevant to Britain's London-centric economy, and harboring a rose-tinted nostalgia for a prouder past, many who would identify as traditional working class, particularly in England, are in open revolt.
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The scenarios she singles out allow the past to glisten ("I took you swimming by my house / We skinny dip and rip my flowers out"), in the way that rose-tinted memories tend to.
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Nostalgia and references were enough to propel me through The Stick of Truth, but while playing the sequel, The Fractured But Whole, rose-tinted glasses haven't been enough, my nervous chuckles replaced with sighs.
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I smooth on a little rose-tinted lip-gloss, for make-up that will have to do, and text " here" to my friend GH. In a minute he pulls up behind me and parks.
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I smooth on a little rose-tinted lip-gloss, for make-up that will have to do, and text "here" to my friend GH. In a minute he pulls up behind me and parks.
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As the digital incarnation of the already rose-tinted proposition of patronage, Patreon has had the reputation of a niche community of idealism; the even crunchier cousin of the already progressive Kickstarters of the world.
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He added that the political risk is overstated in Europe, but is understated in the U.S. "I do look at the U.S. and it's definitely viewing all its prospects through rose-tinted glasses," he said.
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You don't just "get" each other's quirks — you adore them, whether they're a Cancer-inspired urge to care for and worry over anyone important to them or a distinctly Taurean, rose-tinted view of romance.
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Maybe it was a rose-tinted lipstick you wore to a Yankees game in the middle of August, or the shimmery bronze eyeshadow you swept onto your lids the night you met your now-fiancé.
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Like a phantom limb, the lost era still twitches, with fading, rose-tinted memories kept alive in places like the Leigh Miners Welfare Institute, a bar and social club on the edge of the borough.
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As soon as the first showboating guitar riff gambols its way into your ears, you're taken somewhere else, where everything has the sheen of the way things used to be, viewed through rose-tinted aviators.
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From this distance, and with rose-tinted glasses, the British Empire — especially as it extended to India — can be viewed as an example of a selfless commitment to civilizing the world while standing atop it.
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The talk of 'Barca DNA' conjured up a rose-tinted vision of his halcyon days in Catalonia, before he was snatched off to the concrete jungle of North London, with its driving rain and granite skies.
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The exhibition offers a compelling counter-narrative to the violence conventionally associated with Spanish colonial art, but its complete exclusion of representations of imperial brutality — inflicted on millions of people — borders on rose-tinted historical revisionism.
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And while that might make a pleasing experience for individuals who wants to disengage from wider global realities, it's reductive for society as a whole if lots of people start retreating into rose-tinted filter bubbles.
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To hear it from those who wear rose-tinted shades, society has become steadily more distracted from that point onward by reality TV, the encouraged vanity of social media, and last but not least, pop music.
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Bredesen could be coasting on strong name recognition and rose-tinted memories of his time as governor, advantages that might erode as Blackburn hits the campaign trail and the Democrat faces concentrated attacks from the GOP.
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With Trump taking office, there's an impulse for liberals to look back at Obama through rose-tinted glasses and celebrate those achievements while shrugging off anything they don't like as the fault of those nasty Republicans.
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But sometimes, that's exactly what you need to move on — some hope, however rose-tinted, that the next guy might be a Steve or Harry, or at least a good story to tell your friends over brunch.
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Last week, your planetary ruler Saturn conflicted with planet of love, money, and values, Venus, bringing a sobering realism to the rose-tinted idealism you have about your career—and you're still feeling that energy this week!
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While countries are supposed to vote based on the scientific merits, "we all know that's looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses," said Bruce Weissgold, a former senior Cites specialist at the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The chemical, which turns magenta when diluted in water, is supposedly harmless, but no one would blame the fine people of Onoway for not wanting to use the rose-tinted liquid to brew a pot of coffee.
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For too long, in both the US and Europe, populists have gotten away with selling a retreat to isolationism and protectionism, wrapped up in a rose-tinted notion of absolute national sovereignty, as a solution to voter's problems.
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Yes, some of this comes in the form of wishy-washy anecdotes from teachers who remember a "cute, smiling kid" behind rose-tinted, steam-ridden glasses; and yes, there is the archetypal origin-story inclusion of home video footage.
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Featuring a mix of remixed levels from the original Sonic games alongside brilliant new stages, Sonic Mania looks and plays like your rose-tinted memories of the Genesis games, complete with silky-smooth platforming, branching paths, and breakneck speeds.
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Afforded the opportunity to take up a little more space, producers made a number of complex statements, offering up electro-protest anthems, rose-tinted remembrances of childhood, and collections of club tracks as harrowing as War of the Worlds.
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People tend to view his era through rose-tinted lenses and may be prepared to forgive him for the numerous scandals and abuses of power during his time as leader, if they think he can wrest the country from Najib.
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Their music is sunny and escapist, and whether they're performing in a studio, or soundtracking a rose-tinted beachy scene, they have an uncanny knack of being able to take you somewhere else entirely (you're probably drinking an Aperol Spritz).
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In the crypt chapel, the diminutive, chatty and ebullient princess went silent as she removed her rose-tinted designer glasses, knelt in her Comme des Garçons pants on the upholstered kneeler and solemnly pressed her forehead against her laced fingers.
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Offering no hint of the backbreaking drudgery and mental strain of their predicament, this gauzy picture (produced by the couple's son, Jonathan Cavendish, and directed by his friend, the actor Andy Serkis) is a closed loop of rose-tinted memories.
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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Critics and viewers on both sides of the Atlantic have lined up to acclaim 'Chernobyl', a dramatization of events surrounding the world's worst nuclear accident - but the reactions of some of the survivors are less rose-tinted.
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In the shot, Bella plugs some of the brand's apparel in a white windbreaker and matching track pants and sports bra with a whole lot of thick gold chain layered around her neck and a pair of silver sunglasses with rose-tinted lenses.
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But many Biden critics believe he has a rose-tinted recollection of his Senate days and that the vicious polarization of Trump-era politics means there would be no return to civility even if the front-running Democrat wins the White House.
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I feel I understand a little more what astronauts mean when they talk about the nearly indescribable feeling they get when they leave the Earth and look down on it from above — a feeling of unity and potential, of a rose-tinted futurity.
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We've not only waited 10 years to get to this point, we've invested hour after hour, watching movie after movie, poring over frame after frame of Robert Downey Jr. sporting rose-tinted Ray-Bans in the backseat of a limo to get here.
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CHERNOBYL, Ukraine, June 19 (Reuters) - Critics and viewers on both sides of the Atlantic have lined up to acclaim 'Chernobyl', a dramatisation of events surrounding the world's worst nuclear accident - but the reactions of some of the survivors are less rose-tinted.
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Seeing as the rapidly-approaching holiday of love — you know it as Valentine's Day — has us shifting our mood boards towards all things rose-tinted, from accessories to fingernails, we thought it the perfect time to round up the best pink polishes money can buy.
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In order to get behind that facade, I ditched the rose-tinted glasses handed to me through the years I've previewed and reviewed video games and asked developers across varying roles what it's actually like to make video games, and why it's so hard.
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For the first time, Tarkington addresses head on his major preoccupation, the relentless transformation of American small-town life (seen through rose-tinted glasses) into the ferocious and ugly world of Progress, dominated by ruthless businessmen who are supplanting the "best" families (like his own).
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You've been taking things a little too seriously since last week, as your planetary ruler, strict, rule-playing Saturn, is still in conflict with love and money planet Venus, which is in idealistic Libra and wants you to see the world through rose-tinted glasses.
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Much of Soulcalibur is a polishing of what has made the series so good, and so it's likely that much of this game is appealing to my rose-tinted nostalgia for days gone by of late-night team battles (which are sadly absent in VI).
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"Wenzhou government does not let churches register, because there are way too many, so there are lots of house churches and it is tough for the government to manage them," Zhao Gang, the minister at Wenzhou's Church of the Rose-tinted Clouds, told Reuters.
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Herlihy also makes a convincing argument in pointing out that fans can too easily slip into a "rose-tinted view of the way it used to be", forgetting about the violence and safety issues that have largely been tackled as our football stadiums have become more sanitised.
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If you ask us, this is your yearly opportunity to wear your rose-tinted glasses and let your aesthetic tastes guide your choices more than you usually would — you don't have to go all out if you aren't feeling very Venusian, but the invitation is there.
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And hopefully, when one day I look back at what is surely the beginning of a tumultuous era, what I'll remember won't be the anxiety, doubt, or unease, but both the current crop of music that soothed me, and the rose-tinted decade that inspired it.
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Then there are his other loosies from the year: "OKRA" (a one-take rap song), "BRING IT BACK" (a remix of the Drake featuring track of the same name by Trouble), "Rose Tinted Cheeks" (a smoooooooth song intended for Flower Boy) and "435" (another rap tune).
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The overall vibe was of rose-tinted psychedelia, The Wicker Man updated with a baller sound system —around me, women in paisley dresses twirled, someone started blowing bubbles, and when the band came back out for an unexpected encore, it all seemed part of the grand dance.
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Since we just spent the last 10 minutes looking a decade into the past, quietly missing Myspace even though all it really did was allow us to do was meet up with strangers in Starbucks and avoid eye contact in total silence, let's go for the rose-tinted option.
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Then he started to accessorize it.. He did it in a a show space filled this season with curving, tufted pink velvet banquettes, walls festooned with a mosaic of pink mirrored squares, and curtains of more pink mirrors bisecting the runway — the whole thing bathed in a rose-tinted light.
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The actress shared of a close-up photo of her face on Thursday evening, wearing a wide-brimmed straw sun hat, a delicate rose gold diamond choker, and a pair of white Privé Revaux The Artist sunglasses, complete with geometric, polarized rose-tinted lenses for the consummate optimist, naturally, and retail for an extremely reasonable $29.95.
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It's hard to believe that there's a good Sonic game again, but Sonic Mania — which Sega handed off to a crew of fans to develop — plays like a magical extension of the old 16-bit Genesis era, with remixed levels and brand new ideas that play just as good as your rose-tinted memories of the original Sonic games.
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And yet the perception formed during his years away from the public eye – as with all the above names (and as with George Best and James Dean and Steve Jobs and every other glorified public figure) – has benefited from the collective mind having expunged any memories of the mundane, leaving only rose-tinted recollections of the resplendent.
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For all its rose-tinted views on the sesh, "Drinking in LA" is less about the party itself and more about the moment of the night where you start to sober up and reflect on where you are, what you've done, and all the life choices you have made that have led you to this moment.
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GC: That sounds-, that's a little rose tinted spectacles, I listened to Mr. Carney and to me it sounded like they could go up or they could go down from here, even though inflation, obviously, clearly is picking up, but it seems the Bank of England is willing to run the economy a little hotter, to get confirmation that growth is really there.
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On the way, he sees "one of the most beautiful 'landscapes' the capital owns": Nybroviken, the small bay that abuts Strandvagen; Skeppsholmen across the water with giant trees that are now "leafless crowns"; and beyond, the Baroque Katarina church, whose eastern walls (a century later painted yellow and white) are just beginning to catch the rose-tinted rays of the rising sun.
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But if what the Brexiteers want is to return Britain to a utopia they have devised by splicing a few rose-tinted memories of the 1950s together with an understanding of imperial history derived largely from images on vintage biscuit tins, then all of this seems chillingly plausible, insofar as it would, in many ways, constitute the realization of that dream.
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There will have undoubtedly been some Remainers among their number, but I got the sense that these were the kind of people an emotionally led, nationalistic campaign like Vote Leave would have worked on, because they're already so heavily invested in a rose-tinted version of the past that they would be willing to ignore stuff like "facts" and "expert advice" in favor of returning to an age where jingoism wasn't a bad word.
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It's strange to me that so many of us look back on the halcyon days of the M25 raves, those notoriously vast assemblages of people crowded together in beetroot fields all raving under one roof, with the kind of rose-tinted nostalgia usually saved for royal weddings or world wars, but find the idea of thousands of revellers stood shirtless on the edges of Ushuaia about as appealing as sharing a bowl of jellied eels with Len Goodman.
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They may relate a phrase like "All those "oh so near's" / Wear you down, through the years" to their football club, but there's a duality in that experience that is also buried in their own memories of not succeeding - whether in their job or love life or otherwise - but coming out the other side to try time and time again, the rose-tinted pursuit of a nostalgic dream they've seen in the collective experiences of yore pulling them through.
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