Sentence examples for disguised aim from inspiring English sources

John Leonard, however, lambasting the book in a review in The New York Times, took barely disguised aim at her. "There is a word for such a book," Mr. Leonard wrote.

Within the story it's a disguised act of dominance.

Speaking to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, Gates said a "thinly disguised" operation by Russia had aimed to undermine the credibility of the American election and was to weaken Hillary Clinton.

The concept — robots disguised as everyday objects — was originally aimed at 5-year-old boys.

She did read a book on the Baltimore affair, by the historian Daniel Kevles of Yale, but her aim was not to write a thinly disguised rehash of that painful episode.

These bumps make us see the value of the discovery.' And in §464: 'My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.' In the discussion of the possibility of a private language it may well at first seem as though we understand the possibility under consideration.

The Vietcong were dominated by communists, but portrayed itself as a nationalist militant organisation, stating its aim to be the "reunification of the fatherland" with the overthrow of the "disguised colonial regime of the U.S. imperialists and the dictatorial Ngo Dinh Diem administration".

But Mr. Reynolds is also an established playwright, best known for "Geniuses," which spoofed Hollywood filmmaking in a dark and barely disguised riff on the making of "Apocalypse Now," and for "Stonewall Jackson's House," which took aim at a range of liberal pieties.

Traffic safety schemes such as automated red light and speed cameras, ostensibly aimed at making the nation's roads safer, have been shown to be thinly disguised road taxes, levying hefty fines on drivers, most of whom would never have been pulled over, let alone ticketed, by an actual police officer.

First, the disguised part.

Gongorism disguised as primitivism.