Sentence examples for half veiled from inspiring English sources

In Titian's "Portrait of Archbishop Filippo Archinto", for instance, the cleric, whose career ended badly, is shown half veiled by a diaphanous curtain.In this section Capitalism's martyred hero Gory glamour Travails of trade Paterfamilias Monty Celestial sacrifice When it's fun to be fooled ReprintsIn most of the show, however, fooling the viewer is the focus.

He also argued that the report reflected eastern bias: "In a number of places in the Bulletin the so-called Western Conference (now the Big Nine) is referred to and, curiously, almost always with a sort of half veiled sneer.

She wears what she calls a "half-veil," a black scarf tied behind her neck that is less than the full head covering that might provoke French sensibilities yet symbolizes her commitment to Islam and shields her from the advances of men in the rough northern suburb where she lives.

Men are encouraged neither to be half-naked, nor veiled.

In place of the bleak fuzz that veils half the setups in "Filth and Wisdom," the images here are crisply defined, even if Ritchie has proved unable to shed the fondness for muted mud-tones that graced "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".

I half expected to discover it veiled under a blanket of sick but no such luck.

About half of the rest of the tiny female minority is veiled.

An embarrassing half-hour of television boils down to little more than a thinly veiled attempt to sell cat food.

Romney has roots or residences in a half-dozen states and is a steadfast blur, parts of his biography veiled or glossed over, his political passions often hard to divine or to trace to any particular series of events.

First, a mother of a certain age, a grandmother, probably, tall, dressed in the rigid black of the full abaya, with her half-veiled face pointed straight ahead.

(According to the news release Titian's half-veiled cardinal, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the actual and less obvious source of inspiration).