The phrase "and the mask of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing identity, concealment, or metaphorical representations.
Example: "She wore a smile, but behind and the mask of joy, she was hiding her true feelings."
Alternatives: "and the facade of" or "and the guise of".
Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper (Snow, £8.99) sees our heroes tearing around a Victorian London replete with pea soupers, voracious tyrannosaurs and artificial brains.
It's a cynical song about the psychology of cocaine, about false drama and fame and the mask of artificiality you forget you're wearing.
Every kind of eyework is here, from the brief glance to the loaded iron glare and the mask of attentive purpose.
The genre's not about to give up the ghost (sequels to Pirates... and The Mask Of Zorro are on their way), for swashbuckling pleasures are called for more than ever now.
Other notable roles in the 1990s include early 20th-century patriarchs in Howards End (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), as well as storied adventurers in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and The Mask of Zorro (1998).
Yet in the first sentence of his latest work, the military historian John Keegan, author of such instant classics as "The Face of Battle" and "The Mask of Command," poses this question: "How useful is intelligence in war?" By the end we will have Keegan's unequivocal answer, one likely to jar the conventional wisdom.
Two more major studies of silent film followed: The War, the West and the Wilderness (1979) and Behind the Mask of Innocence (1990).
And behind the mask of normality, office clerks fret obsessively over where America's leviathan will stop.
In a later conversation, I asked Obama if he was haunted by Syria, and, though the mask of his equipoise rarely slips, an indignant expression crossed his face.
The partnership is no longer limited to the US and Israel; the mask of "searching for a Palestinian partner" has fallen; the Israeli leadership had used this ploy at every available opportunity.
Millar later tweeted that the actor playing Colonel Stars "lives with 200 raccoons and parrots, owns the mask of Loki and [was] named by Spielberg as a genius".
