The pleasant words this evening disguised deep disagreements between the two sides over the peace plan, including the future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
Frailties in tennis arrive in many guises and a tired double-fault by Nadal in the fourth game might have disguised deeper concerns had Fish not so meekly wasted his rare chance to break back.
Despite statements from both sides that it had been an amicable meeting, there was not much effort to disguise the deep divide which now runs through the party and will be exposed to public view in Portsmouth.
Despite the statements from both sides that it had been an amicable meeting, there was not much effort to disguise the deep divide which now runs through the party and will be exposed to public view in Portsmouth.
She does little to disguise her deep distaste for the Bloomberg era, when, by her lights, the ranks of the poor surged to unconscionable levels ("that's not sustainable" she said), gentrification brought a commoditized sameness to once quirky neighborhoods ("we are losing our communities," she worries) and New York City venerated its swelling class of ultrarich.
At this point, if you haven't read the books, you're probably assuming I'm about to reveal that the Bagthorpes' perma-feuds and tooth-and-nail altercations are a pose designed to disguise a deep, underlying affection, and that the books' message is something to do with the many different ways of expressing love.
Aboard are the cretins found in myths of caves, men cast out from civilized circles, the ones who fled from the light of the fires when that was the center of life, the men with wayward eyes when women and children are about, and lowered glances amongst men, in order to disguise their deep imbedded intentions, the actions that have marked their eyes from the inside.
But the superficial resemblances disguise the deeper differences.
These arguments about the act disguise much deeper rifts.
