He preferred cookbooks that kept a few veils on.
We are often told that, in art, sex must keep a few veils on in order to be sexy.
This being a dance theatre, and this being Salome, a modicum of terpsichorean movement and a few veils, on or off, would have perked things up.
A few veil-thin shavings are sufficient to send a simple risotto into the anteroom of heaven.
Alain Madelin, one of the 36 opposing MPs, agreed: "We may end up with fewer veils in schools, but we'll have more in the housing estates".
If they're women who cover their hair, those few who veil entirely or those who chat into scarf-tucked phones, the hijab hands-free, their choice of headgear is bizarrely troublesome to those whose business it is not.
Established web companies, such as DoubleClick, Akamai and Digital Island, and newcomers, like Quova and Digital Envoy, are vying to develop ways to pierce one of the web's few remaining veils of privacy: physical location.
Established Web firms such as DoubleClick, Akamai and Digital Island, as well as newcomers like Quova and Digital Envoy, are vying to develop ways to pierce one of the Web's few remaining veils of privacy: physical location.
Ten years ago, young French-born Muslim women were seldom veiled, and the few who were veiled were often, like Djamila, expressing nothing more political than piety or modesty or virtue.
In Egypt's socialist heyday, few wore the veil.
But in the next few months, that veil may be lifted.
