Though his garish personal style and his cartoonish eccentricities nearly masked what lay beneath, in reality, Gaddafi the dictator was a mercurial despot with particularly sadistic methods of invoking fear in the hearts of the people he claimed as his own.
I'm busty, and for years I was ashamed of my breasts and would intentionally try flattening and masking them beneath my clothing.
The tension of the past three weeks remained just beneath the surface, masked by the smiles and jollity this country is known for.
Plywood masked its windows, and foundation brick peeked from beneath its crumbling cover.
But just before he draws in the smoke, Mr. Bale does something extraordinary: He drains the animation from his face and turns his buggy eyes into fathomless pits, revealing the death mask beneath Dicky's wild pantomime of life.
Little do they realize that under the mask, beneath the armor, lie the beating hearts, the transmogrified flesh and isotopic blood, of a creature who was once very much human, just like them.
Although that may sound perverse, and I suppose it is, it's a perversity that has a long lineage in French culture (Baudelaire, Lautréamont) and that may be viewed as itself a kind of mask: beneath the facade there is, often, an essentially religious reverence for reality, in all its sometimes appalling manifestations.
If a patient is not emotionally stable and financially secure, and a cosmetic surgery goes wrong, "the results can be disastrous," says Robin Yuan, plastic surgeon and author of Behind the Mask, Beneath the Glitter.
His campaign here, as elsewhere, is thin, barely masking the chaos beneath.
Nietzsche viewed moral codes as myths, lies, and frauds created to mask forces operating beneath the surface to influence thought and behaviour.
