"You can live a second life under your first one," the story begins, "something functioning covertly like a subway beneath a city, a disease inside the flesh.
She hid bottles of alcohol, tried to stop Ted from going out alone to social functions, covertly placed a tracking app on his cell phone, plead with him to get help, launched long-term, punishing silence campaigns, engaged in all-out verbal warfare, saying things she could never take back, and often in earshot of their kids.
Governments which appear to be functioning are covertly on the verge of collapse; climate modifications herald a death knell for life; biotechnology will eliminate food, while wars and political crises ravage our planet.
Hirsch's role is covertly powerful.
The use of lexical metaphors here covertly distances the putative readers from the capacity of the Labor Party.
"Some of this data is publicly available, some of it is purchased and some of it is acquired covertly in accordance with SIS statutory functions," according to an MI6 note.
It is well known that motor and proprioceptive signals preponderantly function in the absence of awareness and might thus covertly affect memory strength [37].
As he confesses from time to time, a good deal of the book appears to have been written on the notes function of his phone, furtively concealed in his sleeping bag, or covertly accessed.
Much of the money is sent covertly to churches and voluntary groups in poor countries and failed states without functioning banking systems.
It's covertly educational.
Ordinary thieves act covertly.
