Sentence examples for behind a mask of from inspiring English sources
Is he hiding behind a mask of studied inexpressiveness?
There are athletes who can hide their insecurities behind a mask of bravado.
Ensconced behind a mask of noble ends, something obscenely disingenuous is happening here.
He adored it and never hid his enchantment behind a mask of cynicism.
Meanwhile, he remains, at least rhetorically, invulnerable behind a mask of sincerity.
His opposition, he said, "had hidden behind a mask of democracy but actually was a totalitarian".
In order to do "those things that he was criticized for and the dummies didn't get," Cavett explained Letterman often hid his cutting wit "behind a wonderful mask of innocence, and I think that's what made it effective for those who dug it, among whom I was one".
In early spring — six months since I had seen her last — I dreamed my daughter was running down a dirt road, with her long braid flying behind her and her face a mask of grief.
It must have encouraged Max to live behind a series of masks, including a mask of Englishness, and one of diminutive infantilism — he draws himself always with outsize head and small body, like a baby.
Though she is skeptical of veils that completely obscure the individual, she draws similarities with the way some women hide behind heavy make-up: in both cases, a woman is concealed behind a social mask of sorts, often for her own comfort.
Behind a beguiling mask of melancholy, he nurtures a fierce and well camouflaged commitment to his art.
