Presenters Mel and Sue are brimming over with dirty jokes, while co-judge Paul Hollywood can rarely conceal his knowing smirk.
Liddle provokes to the brink of apoplexy, but he rarely conceals his views in insidious campaigns of rumour and scurrility.
In a country scarred by a long history of being second best, where strident nationalism rarely conceals the lingering insecurity that many Indians, even rich ones, feel about their place in the world, this success is glorious.
Mr. Bush, who has visited New York only twice since Sept. 11 and rarely tried to conceal his distaste for the city before then, is doubtless more than happy to oblige any credible politician who can raise large sums of money for his party.
(Cable drama is so full of concealed selves you rarely know whom you are sleeping with — the desultory Don Draper, or the desultory Dick Whitman; Dexter the vigilante serial killer who likes you, Dexter the vigilante who will send you to prison or worse).
Rousseff has never concealed her past, but she has rarely discussed it in detail and never does now.
The tiger that Ruth imagines visiting her house at night is too neat an objectification of her fears about mortality, and Frida, her smile like that "of a Madonna who always looks over the head of her child, as if deciding what to cook for Joseph's dinner," wears a mask of inscrutability that, in a novel, rarely turns out to conceal anything benign.
We live in a time in which little is concealed, and that pressure valve — the one that every writer is intimate with — rarely has a chance to fill and fill to the point of explosion.
But he seemed oddly shy, concealed under a hat and sunglasses for much of the set and pacing across the stage, rarely making eye contact with the audience, which squealed with joy when he took off his shirt.
