Sentence examples for conceal effort from inspiring English sources

I can't say it was the smoothest ever preview, but we got through… Whereas ballet tends to conceal effort, we like to show it, in all its rawness".

He managed to conceal efforts to develop and find a publisher for "The Bodyguard's Story, Trevor Rees-Joness's 336-page account of the events surrounding his own survival of the 1997 Paris car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion, Emad Mohamed al-Fayed, who was known as Dodi.

The union sees the law as a barely concealed effort to weaken public education and build support for vouchers.

Some did little to conceal their efforts to fuse national grief with the profit motive.

Now she is accused of conspiring to help a group of his followers in Egypt to commit terrorism, and of lying to the government to conceal her efforts.

The prosecution tried to portray a world in which Mr. Stevens's friends regularly tried both to help him and to conceal their efforts from officials.

James Austrian, the principal of Austrian Associates and a veteran of the property assembly wars, recalls that he once created a fictitious Korean company to conceal his efforts to assemble a site on Ninth Avenue in the vicinity of 30th Street.

Assemblers have frequently used elaborate subterfuges to conceal their efforts, using a number of agents and lawyers to make it seem there were several buyers operating, rather than a single purchaser assembling a larger tract.

And the party isn't even trying that hard to conceal its efforts.

Poulenc was a painstaking craftsman, though a myth grew up – "la legende de facilité" – that his music came easily to him; he commented, "The myth is excusable, since I do everything to conceal my efforts".

He had concealed an effort to buy the silence of his victims, through payments that amounted to more than three million dollars.