Sentence examples for disguised description from inspiring English sources

In the same book, Mr. Viertel told how he nervously approached John Huston to discuss the barely disguised description of him in the filming of "The African Queen" for "White Hunter".

On the other hand, if (as Kaplan proposes: 1989a) 'you' refers directly to an individual, without amounting to a disguised description meaning the same as a description like 'the person at the door', then it would seem to be rigid.

Suppose that 'Petrarch' is, contrary to direct reference theorists, a disguised description, shorthand for 'The famous humanist most closely associated, in α, with the Italian Renaissance', where 'α' is a name for the actual world.

"The Father", then, is a disguised description, something like "the God who is in some life unbegotten" (2012b, 335) (For "the Son" we would substitute "begotten" for the last word).

One way to develop a descriptivism along these lines would be to say that a name like 'Petrarch' is something like a disguised description that is shorthand for 'the famous humanist most closely associated in α with the Italian Renaissance'.

8. Further, we might hold that the theory of direct reference is merely an empirical theory about natural language, and that even if it is true, there are other possible languages in which a name spelled and pronounced like 'Petrarch' is a disguised description meaning the same as 'the famous humanist most closely associated in α with the Italian Renaissance'.

When data about the internal workings of competitors' operations proved difficult to get, consultants could generally be counted on to provide suitably disguised descriptions of best industry practices.

On Russell's view, proper nouns, and most common words, are really disguised descriptions (1912: 84 5).

'Petrarch', on this view, may be a disguised ordinary description meaning the same as 'The famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance'.

Her 1962 novel "The Group," about a circle of Vassar alums in the thirties, caused a huge uproar for its frank descriptions of sex and contraception, and for its thinly disguised portraits of her fellow classmates.

I have no real quarrel with this description, even though I've noticed, over the years, that the words "thinly disguised" are applied mostly to books written by women.