Sentence examples for slightly veiled from inspiring English sources
The novel, a slightly veiled allegory of Melville's own dark imaginings, was rooted in these relations.
Within the first minute of his opening remarks, he made a slightly veiled reference to them.
Looking out through the screens, the dazzling desert light becomes slightly veiled.
The natural element was slightly veiled by the building's new acoustic enhancements, which kept things very, very live.
In slightly veiled language, Hadreas claims the flamboyance of the stereotypical gay man, and then brandishes it as both a right and a threat.
In April 1960, on the occasion of Vladimir Lenin's 90th birthday, for example, Beijing published an article that contained a slightly veiled critique of Soviet foreign policy, arguing that the Soviets had become soft on imperialism.
Set in the bitchy, backstabbing world of a fictitious beauty pageant, Matsoukas's video is gorgeously shot; each different setup looks like a magazine shoot slightly subverted by barely veiled sadness and tight rictus grins.
Cragg deemed the clip "gorgeously shot" and opined that its magazine shoot style "slightly subverted by barely veiled sadness and tight rictus grins".
However, please don't stand in the doorway - just slightly hidden from view, veiled in shade - in your work clothes, staring at me for 15 minutes while I wait for my friend at Farringdon Tube station.
If adopted, the new rules will pull back slightly the veil of secrecy surrounding these entities because it will allow the government to track transactions and provide information to other countries trying to crack down on tax cheating.
