Their affair, while covert, is not quite "the unimagined and yet vaguely dreaded thing" of 1913.
Moreover, many people who are "dignified" in their outward manner are quite base in their motivations or covert dealings.
But Farage's is not quite the same as the standard covert, having no fly front or lines of stitching near the cuffs.
You didn't quite win total independence: we left behind a covert occupation force, in the shape of our weeds, which rapidly became your weeds, pesky and persistent.
However, it has been shown quite often that people have no trouble performing covert spatial attention shifts without any eye movements (Brefczynski and DeYoe 1999; Siman-Tov et al. 2007; Munneke et al. 2008; Datta and DeYoe 2009; van Gerven et al. 2009; Andersson et al. 2011).
Quite what stage we're at in GMTV's covert assimilation of post-Major British politics is unclear.
Sophisticated diplomatic negotiation, legal argument, collective bargaining, commercial advertising, and political campaigns are of course quite likely to include considerable amounts of both overt and covert propaganda, accompanied by propaganda of the deed.
Fitting quite perfectly into the timing of their plan was a covert meeting that took place at the Pentagon on April 23.
Apart from being "quite good fun", it was the culmination of more than a year of covert operations.
In language unusually fierce for Wolfowitz, he derided "our passive containment policy and our inept covert operations" and clearly implied that ousting Saddam should be American policy without quite saying it.
