1. He painted a rosy picture of family life.

2. She painted a rosy picture of the firm's future.

3. Letters to relatives in Europe painted a rosy picture of life in the United States.

4. She painted a rosy picture of their life together in Italy .

5. EXAMPLE: Our optimistic sales manager tired to paint a rosy picture of the company's troubled economic condition by saying that we hadn't lost as much money as we feared we would.