If Mr. Bush and the invasion's planners in Washington had rose-colored expectations of how the American takeover would be received, Iraqis, Mr. Bremer suggested in his interview, had similarly unrealistic hopes about America.
He walks toward the cream-colored sea with his arm around Mindy, who looks even better than expected (and expectations were high) in her sparkling blue bikini.
We found that people have expectations for how different colored bins signal different kinds of to-be-discarded objects (e.g. paper, glass, trash), based on their color-object associations and contextual cues from other colors in the set.
Their recent endeavor, a room-sized forest made from colored lasers, certainly lives up to our expectations.
You should also be aware of how you might be wearing rose colored glasses, and temper that view with realistic expectations.
To dampen antiwar sentiment, Johnson and Westmoreland encouraged what turned out to be false expectations about our prospects in Vietnam, and this colored Americans' perception of the Tet offensive, stretching the president's credibility gap to the breaking point.
Instead of contending with multi-colored cubes, parents find themselves sorting out variables such as their own upbringing, the expectations of others and navigating through the massive amount of online parenting information.
But it colored everything.
A "chocolate colored" house.
