Sentence examples for off the cloak from inspiring English sources

Oh, a message gets out, but this a Spike Lee joint and, as his mid-career has shown, he's shrugged off the cloak of the "prestige film-maker" and fully embraced the more risky title of Artist.

In their competition, the north wind fails to blow the cloak off a passing traveller no matter how hard it blows; yet the sun succeeds, by warming the traveller's surroundings, and encouraging him to take off the cloak himself.

Play Sterling and this is bold Roy, throwing off the cloak of conservatism and going for it.

Next, changing, he turned the heat on more, and suddenly the farmer felt too hot and of his own accord threw off the cloak, and so was stripped.

Manchester City's squad is awash with talent and yet the players seem unable to cast off the cloak of inhibition when it comes to the Champions League.

He will never cast off the cloak of being the villain forever but here he was a hero and put a positive in the ledger that at least helps redress the balance from the negatives of his past.

So, as the Sydney night falls on the forecourt and arcs of blue light sweep across the stage, a clutch of hooded figures stagger on, only to throw off the cloaks and reveal a purple-suited Finn and Seymour along with multi-instrumentalist Mark Hart and drummer Matthew Sherrod.

They also cleaned off the sooty cloak.

When Democrats started moving toward Mr. Bradley as a fresher candidate, Mr. Gore junked his campaign plan, threw off the smothering cloak of supposed inevitability and starting fighting for the nomination.

Liz Forgan, chair of the Scott Trust, wrote in our 2004 audit how the Guardian became the "first newspaper to throw off the protective cloak that covers our industry and it has the full support of the trust for its continued determination to be accountable to its readers and to all who deal with it".

Mixed-income housing sits as the centerpiece of Chicago's Plan for Transformation, an initiative launched under Mayor Daley to, in part, relocate public housing residents and generally shake off the awful cloak of the Cabrini Green era.