Sentence examples for preferred to hide from inspiring English sources

Yet the great impresario, director and animator of modern performance arts preferred to hide behind a self-mocking exterior.

My method is actually closer to that of Helen Levitt, who preferred to hide not her camera, but her purpose.

He was modern in the sense that he revealed the processes of painting, unlike conservative academicians who preferred to hide their tricks behind veils of illusion.

Even though singers and ballet dancers were allowed to be gay in Russia, ordinary people preferred to hide it the best they could.

Burr's home-state newspaper, the Raleigh News & Observer, editorialized that the senator preferred "to hide the misdeeds of the CIA's secret prisons rather than have others in government review what happened".

"The boys are human at the end of the day and they are going to make errors," said Jenkins when asked whether players preferred to hide behind the coaches' gameplan rather than assume responsibility on the field when the unexpected occurred.

Many businesses prefer to hide in the informal sector.

They prefer to hide in the tall grass and snipe at management".

Instead, Henley prefers to hide behind the froufrou one hears in her characters' Fannie Flagg-sounding whoops and hollers and sobs.

Reward them for calm behaviour, and cuddle them if you think this will relax them – however, if they prefer to hide, it's best to let them.

Finfoots spend most of their life in water and prefer to hide in thick riverside bushes when disturbed, rather than fly.