Sentence examples for not rose from inspiring English sources

One baseball official who has spoken with Selig said yesterday that Selig's main concern, in weighing reinstatement, is not Rose and the Hall of Fame, in part because Selig, as commissioner, would not be voting on Rose's candidacy.

She is Rosa DeLauro, not Rose.

I get the floral smell, but not rose.

Gill both is and is not Rose, a scratchy Aussie who we meet on the morning of this fateful Thursday, doing her ablutions in the suburban flat she shares with her slacker boyfriend.

Whether or not Rose will play himself remains to be seen.

Because the two men are constantly betting on outcomes, it only seems natural that they would bet on whether or not Rose could become the national speed typing champion.

"I just can assure that these glasses that I have on are not rose-colored".

Barbara's portrayal of their marriage is tender but not rose-tinted.

That may make you smile, but if it makes you reel, note that this is a subtle, understated gold, not rose-tinted or blingtastic.

My spectacles are not rose-tinted when I remember several dozen late-summer butterflies supping on buddleia to gain energy for their winter hibernation in very similar garden habitat when I was a boy three decades ago.

As formulaic as this plot might sound, Mr. Perrotta uses it not to construct a conventional screwball romance but to create a sad-funny-touching story that looks at the frustrations and perils of life in suburbia through darkly tinted, not rose-colored glasses — a story similar in tone and setting to his last novel, "Little Children" (2004).