Le Guin has always preferred self-concealment to self-exposure.
Sontag spoke of the dialectical exchange between self-revelation and self-concealment, and sheleaned toward the latter.
Not polished at self-concealment, he has been dogged by opponents' suggestions that he has vacillated on the Iraq war.
By Alan Burdick May 5, 2017 Crypsis, or the art of self-concealment, is a defense that one species typically wields against another.
Reading his letters to family, to literary friends and to complete strangers, she is struck by his unpretentious candor and his genius for self-concealment.
Her response displayed the awkwardness that comes from a lifelong habit of self-concealment in the face of exposure, and toughness in the face of hurt.
But these riches are propped open in display cases for viewing, each revealing more than a tweet's worth of tantalizing self-revelation or self-concealment.
Though he shared their preoccupation with public profile and with the codes of honor, he was, to a remarkable degree, devoted to self-improvement, self-concealment, and a herculean self-control.
Language and storytelling, self-revelation and self-concealment, truth and lies, authority and freedom love, friendship, and trust all are woven into the story as essential questions of education.
The blend of self-revelation and self-concealment, of discipline and spontaneity, of obliviousness and wariness that are on display in the slightest movement and even in repose are the essence of the intimate choreography of daily life.
His earliest letters home make him seem less miserable than the average English public-school boy; a gift for self-concealment and a talent for appreciating objets find early expression in acting and model-making.
