The dark lining to today's optimism may be the high expectations that many Americans now have for the future.

Silently she took them off, reversed them so the darker lining showed, and put them back on again.

Pessimists, though, have no difficulty finding the dark lining in this silver cloud.

But every silvery cloud has a dark lining.

But there is a dark lining in this silver cloud.

It seemed, too, as if a protective shell had formed about Rufo, a dark lining to battle the burning sunlight.

The Big Thinkers found only the dark lining in our silver cloud.

But that good news has a dark lining.

He said that the dark blue lining of the pool might have made it difficult to spot Mr. Jackson.

Well, somebody has to find the dark lining, I suppose, and it always seemed to be the chief, for some reason.