Sentence examples for he was thinly from inspiring English sources

In 1979, the new prime minister, Margaret Thatcher brushed aside the advice of the Whitehall establishment and publicly revealed Blunt's past as a spy after he was thinly disguised in Andrew Boyle's The Climate of Treason.

A middle-aged man with a remarkable resemblance to Albert Finney, he was thinly disguised with gold-rimmed glasses and a green silk scarf knotted artistically above a dark jacket.

A precise-looking man of about 50, dressed in a starched white coat, he was thinly thatched and had a closely trimmed, reddish-brown beard.

Heartburn was thinly fictionalised, but nobody was fooled.

Critics pounced, crying that the book was thinly sourced.

But their frustration with him today was thinly veiled.

But his ambition to be president was thinly veiled, and that was his undoing.

But the new owner's identity was thinly veiled and quickly reported in various news outlets.

In prehistoric times the county consisted mostly of dense woods and marshland and was thinly populated.

If they have pasts at all, they are thinly offered.

And yet they are thinly brushed, for the most part, on ordinary canvases.