It has now banned both the veiled question gay candidates dreaded—"is there anything in your past that could embarrass the party?"—and pressure to parade a spouse as proof of soundness.
The frustration of players is obvious when they bristle about Groh's comments on their play and they pose thinly veiled questions about the offensive play-calling.
But they also addressed, in a veiled way, contemporary questions about French tolerance of non-Catholics and fears of a nonassimilated, "fanatical" Jewish population that had been granted civil liberties only a few decades earlier, in 1791.
In a television interview to promote the film, he was asked the not-so-veiled question: "You must feel very strongly about this subject to risk losing possibly a large part of your audience by appearing in such a bitterly controversial film?" With manufactured insouciance, Bogarde counters, "I don't think so, no.
It pointedly asked, "So what are they afraid of?" It is a good question, a veiled accusation that Ms. Gillibrand is not ready to compete.
A veiled truth A play that questions dangerous assumptions about young Muslims is to launch the career of a young playwright this month.
An early manifestation of that concern came in 1902 03, when Britain, Germany, and Italy blockaded Venezuela to force the payment of debts, and particularly when the Germans bombarded and destroyed a Venezuelan town; so agitated was American opinion that Roosevelt used a veiled threat to force Germany to accept arbitration of the debt question by the Hague Court.
In a conference call about the statement, Mr. Obama's advisers on several occasions referred to Mr. McCain as being "confused" about some key Middle East questions, a statement some took to be a veiled reference to his age and acuity.
And he never showed any signs of exasperation, feeling confident enough to take a veiled shot at some of Citi's rivals in response to a question about how Citigroup was coping with the mortgage and foreclosure mess.
