Sentence examples for scarcely concealed from inspiring English sources

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That caused resentment, helped burnish China's image and inspired some scarcely concealed glee at America's comeuppance a decade later.

Notoriously, the barbed comment from one of her predecessors, Harold Macmillan (with scarcely concealed anti-semitism), was that there were "more Estonians than Etonians" in Mrs Thatcher's government.

I have seen an A-level science revision book which contains a scarcely concealed sense of glee that evolution disproves religion.

In later years, when Gershom Schocken published articles in the paper, it was often under a pseudonym that scarcely concealed his filial resentment: Ben-Dam was the name he used — the Son of Blood.

Their neighbor Karl soon arrives in a scarcely concealed rage because the house has been bought by a "colored family," whom he has vainly tried to dissuade from invading this all-white neighborhood.

Often it was a true expression of Christian feeling and sympathetic hope; occasionally, it represented, as now, a scarcely concealed dismay that the world contained those with such frustrating defects.

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James E. Davis can scarcely conceal his feeling of triumph.

Mr. Sarkozy got right to work, scarcely concealing his political ambitions.

"Oh, you're soooo thin," the woman trilled, scarcely concealing the enmity inside the compliment.

Ronaldo or Messi?'" Assou-Ekotto says, blowing out his cheeks and scarcely concealing the boredom.

Needless to say, the right, itself hurt for so long by the far-right National Front, can scarcely conceal its glee.

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