"Projection always hides a feeling you don't want to look at.
Pennington's stoicism during the first few days of the Jets' training camp was a smokescreen, hiding a discomfiting feeling that was only natural considering he was having to learn a new offense at the same time he was relearning how to throw after having major shoulder surgery.
Items included feeling dirty, feeling violated, knowing (and conversely, not knowing) that an STI was present, being able to hide an STI from others, feeling guilty, feeling embarrassed, perceiving those with an STI as having low intelligence, bad character and specifically, bad character as judged by clinic staff.
You learn that the feeling of wanting to hide is just a feeling, a feeling you have conquered before, the feeling of proving yourself wrong becomes the reward.
Ultimately, it's hard to shake the feeling that hiding a package shoddily but quickly, and so moving on to the next task as rapidly as possible, is a better strategy for winning than finding the perfect hiding spot.
"I wanted him to become a machine, to hide his feelings, to wear an unemotional mask on his face, not to react to anything," Fibak said.
These restraints give sharp definition to a hundred feints and tricks they use to hide their feelings, to a few angry confrontations and to little solo songs and dances that seem to possess them like happy spirits in unexpected moments when they realize how close happiness is.
He was taught to hide his feelings beneath "a nice Negro façade," to "wear a face".
"Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not". The idea could open up a world of metaphorical possibilities for the fiction writer, but I'd rather take it more literally.
