"Also it depends often on thoughtfulness or on the inexactness of the initial representation, which we are pleased to disguise slightly at first, then little by little to color in accordance with our desires.
"Common Sense Subtitle: How To Exercise It"
Yoritomo-Tashi
"Activity of mind, stimulated to the utmost, is able to give a color to preceding impressions, which they never have had, and, in this case again, the recollection will be marred by inexactness.
"Common Sense Subtitle: How To Exercise It"
Yoritomo-Tashi
"Well, you introduced us to Mr. Waterlow and he introduced us to-to his friends," she explained, colouring, as if it were a fault for the inexactness caused by her magnanimity.
"The Reverberator"
Henry James