Sentence examples for cloak against from inspiring English sources

This amalgamated aesthetic is catnip to a significant portion of American listeners but functions like an invisibility cloak against music writers.

For "Yes Sir, That's My Baby," Mr. Leff drew a flapper with a cloche and short wraparound cloak against a background that looks like Main Street, Small Town, U.S.A. -- little houses, shops, a white church with a steeple.

Hard-working, unappreciated Jack has little to look forward to but a tedious life of plowing, tending sheep, collecting driftwood, clutching his cloak against the wintry gusts and grating his teeth on gritty loaves of dense, crusty bread.

"Now we are talking about cloaking against sound, water waves, or perhaps even earthquakes," Leonhardt says.

Researchers have also developed materials that can cloak objects against sound waves, ocean waves, and even the elastic waves in Earth's crust caused by earthquakes.

In this climate, the Islamic veil is not only a symbol of religious fervor but a cloak of protection against assault.

George Tenet, the Middle East diplomat who returns to Langley, Va., from time to time to warm the D.C.I.'s chair, will fight tooth, nail, cloak and dagger against the appointment of a long-term, internal "Team B" to challenge complacent China evaluation.

"The PKK should not be given some kind of cloak of legitimisation by fighting against Daesh [Isis]," he said.

Brooks used this romantic image of a figure in heroic isolation several times; a 1912 portrait of D'Annunzio, a 1914 self-portrait, and a portrait of Rubinstein completed in 1917 all show their subjects wrapped in dark cloaks and isolated against seascapes.

It had tanneries to process hides all around its empire for the use of making cloaks and clothing against the cold weather, footwear such as boots and sandals and belts.

For years, the CIA and the US Joint Special Operations Command had conducted parallel programs of drone strikes against the group under a cloak of secrecy.