Yet when she turns away, raising those arms in a priestesslike gesture, that fabric acts as a curtain, shielding her from prying eyes.
He made eye contact with his representatives, the media and victims' relatives as the curtain shielding the death chamber was pulled back.
Then the curtain shielding the execution chamber from the three witness rooms was opened, and McVeigh raised his head up as far as he could to nod at and make eye-contact with those who had come to watch.
In a single-blinded study design pain stimuli were applied by a single investigator on the arm or hand of the subjects, who were comfortably seated behind a black curtain shielding the subjects' view on the stimulus application.
Dressed just in a robe, you are relatively on view, with only curtains shielding you from passers-by.
Worst performance under crushing pressure Matthias Steiner, the German weight lifter, failed to lift 196 kilograms, or 433 pounds, in the snatch, lost control of the bar and crumpled to the floor as the weight landed on his neck and Olympic officials hustled to put up a curtain to shield spectators from the view.
From this study, the pebble curtain can shield more than 90% of heat flux from core plasma when the slit width is more than 3 cm.
This is very bad especially for those of us who are Muslims…you know we need our private space to pray and do other things…you know sometimes I feel that maybe my religion is a barrier, but if the health people can provide every patient their own delivery room, or even if they can use curtains to shield every patient, I think it will help.
It allows the Americans to conduct drone strikes behind a curtain of secrecy, largely shielded from public oversight and outside scrutiny.
Women were shielded by curtains even when they spoke to male members of their own family.
