Sentence examples for of a veil from inspiring English sources
In fact, the cover is a wonderful example of our partnership: The conventional image on most books about Muslim women is of a veil or veiled woman, even when it has nothing to do with the story or writer.
Outside her house the woman was forced to observe many restrictions, such as the wearing of a veil.
(Indeed, her own outfit gives her the appearance of a Salomé who's short of a veil or two).
"I'm not able to see my stories as establishing or presuming the existence of a veil beyond which the characters in them are incapable of seeing.
More tellingly, some translations speak of a veil, and have the women sticking a veil on the magistrate's head in order to humiliate him.
Want to wear pants or a slit up to there (two of the freshest innovations on the recent bridal runways) or a boho halo in lieu of a veil?
In 16th-century Germany, Albrecht Dürer, who spent time in Venice and liked what he saw, combines southern softness and northern intensity in his figure of a veil-swaddled, ember-eyed St. Anne, as does his pupil Hans Baldung Grien in a painting of St. John taking dictation from on high.
The artist's intervention in Azraq captures a silhouette of a veiled woman bathing her child.
In 2009, the French equivalent of the FBI reported that the practice of wearing a veil was "marginal".
For reasons of national security, a veil of secrecy shrouded Bletchley Park.
The danger of not having a veil of secrecy for sources and methods should not be underestimated.
