But we would prefer to believe in rosy promises and hence find proponents of the budget "waiver."
Some critics also charge that the schools make rosy promises about jobs for their graduates that do not materialize.
Can we trust rosy promises about pulling out of hard times from a man whose economic record is the worst since Jimmy - since Herbert Hoover?
The first is that industry, despite all sorts of rosy promises, has neither the will nor technology to contain a major spill.
And he rose to the top of the company in large part by keeping his head down as the rosy promises behind the merger fell apart.
Like his compatriots, he has no more illusions about glasnost or rosy promises of peaceful dialogue on the way to freedom.
You people have been enticed into coming out here by rosy promises and you are understandably disappointed.
But we disagree when you say the industry has been using "rosy promises" to mislead the public about the capability to clean up spills.
The sun was halfway up now, painting the sky with rosy promise, and the black road ran straight into it.
But now Americans say they are skeptical of such rosy promises.