Sentence examples similar to thin veils of mist from inspiring English sources

It's violence with a thin veil of organisation.

A thin veil of dust also hangs over much of the Arabian Sea.

But that thin veil of security had clearly been torn to shreds last night.

Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant.

Here, countless hot young suns are forged and glow blue, white and orange through a thin veil of interstellar dust.

The play lampoons the thin veil of respectability that divides dissident terrorists from the newly laundered former ones.

It was a windless day with a thin veiling of cloud, which I didn't mind at all.

A thin veil of flies rose above the horse for a moment, in what seemed to Jim the shape of a horse, but quickly settled back down.

Despite the thin veil of maternal protectiveness, Maggie is the kind of passive-aggressive mother who is too busy to really bother with the passive part.

The many think tanks and advocacy organisations they support are front groups designed primarily to advance corporate interests behind a thin veil of libertarian and conservative ideology.

This illustrates some of the reasons for a "thick" as opposed to a "thin" veil of ignorance.