Sentence examples for Quite masking from inspiring English sources

Not here, with the smell of roast dinners and bleach not quite masking something else.

"Why are you lighting a cigarette?" I said, not quite masking the panic in my voice.

Even minor characters surge with fascinating foibles: Mary's mother indulges in "complacent self deprecation", relating long anecdotes about herself, with feigned self-ridicule not quite masking her narcissism.

His anger last week as he announced the decision could not quite mask the Administration's shame.

Two split Hawaiian prawns looked impressive, but loads of garlic and herbs couldn't quite mask a slight musty flavor.

The chief excision is the centrality of the lead American jurist, an obscure district court judge whose fundamental open-mindedness isn't quite masked by a backwoods affect.

In other words, he was James Garner, the archetypal floater between television and movies, whose ease and savvy don't quite mask the flashes of sour impatience that can also be seen in Mr. Clooney.

With her California-girl sunglasses and sharp-cut blond hair, her boxer's profile, her dare-you-not-to-look, lean-in decolletage, Barkin's Smurf is a woman whose domestic bustling and seemingly laissez-faire attitude about what goes on around her upscale ranch house never quite mask her need for control and a lack of boundaries.

The surface of a production by the French-Austrian performance group Superamas is so shiny and so deeply comical that its pretty wrapping almost — but not quite — masks the seriousness of its core.

It's a façade that never quite masks the insecurity they feel underneath.

He slips in the notion that writers quite often mask their lives as fiction but hardly ever disguise their fiction as their lives.