Sentence examples for disguised war from inspiring English sources

For protectionists, the war against hedge funds is a thinly disguised war against London's influence.

From the ungainsayable – that it must have affected him somehow – we leap to the unknowable – that it broke his mind for good and that The Catcher in the Rye was a disguised war novel.

Noise shows are comfort zones disguised as war zones: the rabid fans want regression, the less rabid fans just want to see their buddies.

"Quien Sabe?" ("A Bullet for the General") and "Tepepa," parables about third-world revolution and the Vietnam War disguised as westerns.

A secret or disguised way of writing; a code.

Suggested by: asadbutt Commenter asadbutt bemoans the omission of, as he puts it, a "very surreal movie about a talking koala that features Sid Caesar playing tennis against John Newcombe... while disguised as a cold war defector".

We have seen a brand of this bluster and bending of rules in the face of internationally accepted laws not too long ago, rules that were discarded when it came to water boarding, rendition, military internment, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens and indiscriminate bombing conveniently disguised under that ugly war word -- collateral damage!

I followed the rivalries, the barely disguised jealousies, the outright wars.

The game's plot was felt by commentators to be a thinly disguised reference to the Gulf War, while comparisons were drawn between Kilbaba and Saddam Hussein, and between the game's unnamed desert setting and Iraq.

This advance is likely to be much more direct than Norman Schwarzkopf's disguised "left hook" in the Gulf war.

But once again, this concealed what senior U.S. military officers have called the "disguised, quiet, media-free" approach to war in Central America and Afghanistan.