After "outing" himself in June, insisting he didn't want to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, he has spoken on just a few occasions, and only when circumstances seemed to demand it.
This was the week that Emma Watson threw off her wizard's cloak, put down her wand and took to the podium for the launch of the UN's HeforShe campaign.
In a strange way, despite its obvious political meaning, feminism has become a safety cloak for those engaged in public life.
One of the tricks Silver Linings Playbook uses to cloak its formulaic, arthritic bones is a deceptively fresh angle that attempts to render it relevant to the modern-day consciousness, being that of the scarily destructive nature of mental illness.
The highlight: Kimbra herself made sure that her arrival onstage didn't go unnoticed – she was wearing silver stack-heel boots and a floaty white cloak which was later opened to reveal a dress made of tongues of silver paper.
To throw a light cloak of disguise over the total absence of Scottish and Welsh MPs, the geographically non-specific title was created.
I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
But in using their personal Twitter feeds, they're effectively advertising the programme under the cloak of objectivity.
Many commentators, me including, suspected that having liberated the Provos from the dead weight of armed struggle, it would be Hume's party that would lose out, allowing Sinn Fein to steal the cloak of constitutional nationalism.
Much consideration has been given to the backstory of John Wizards – the story of how bedroom programmer John Withers (see what happens when you take the cloak off!) bumped into Rwandan refugee Emmanuel Nzaramba in Cape Town and the pair began making music together, producing a record that justifies the word "magical".
If Romney were to lose to Rick Santorum in Missouri, and in Minnesota (where we do not have any exit poll data on which we could utilize our model, but which polling suggests is possible), he would, again, lose his cloak of inevitability.
