Sentence examples for veiled history from inspiring English sources

And of course "The West Wing" on NBC offered an indirect, fictional response just three weeks after the attacks, with an episode that was a thinly veiled history lesson about terrorism.

In researching the veiled history of the Borgias and examining the Victor Hugo tragedy from which the opera is adapted, Mr. Pascoe has come to see Lucrezia as a determined woman, probably a victim of abuse as a girl, trying to survive in a ferociously masculine world in which revenge and murder become "the wages of love," as he put it in a program note.

It backtracked after being accused of trying to veil history.

Gertrude Stein characterized her novel "The Making of Americans" (1925) as a project to describe every type of human personality, using a thinly veiled depiction of her family history as a springboard.

The director, Garry Marshall, tries to address this by making veiled references to Andrews' career history ("I've done a bit of flying in my time," says her character at one stage, nodding to Mary Poppins).

It's a history lesson thinly veiled between appetizers and desserts.

Carrying a plastic bag in place of a briefcase, Green unearthed documents that had long been hidden behind the veil of history.

"Despite considerable scholarly efforts for many years, the last two decades of the Kingdom of Israel are still beneath the veil of history.

That mission has resulted in the growth of undergraduate and continuing education course offerings alongside numerous public arts endeavors, ranging from DoubleTake Magazine to the Behind the Veil oral history project, documenting the lives of African Americans in 22 Southern communities during the era of segregation.

Through her performance we are taken behind the veil of history's perception of Margaret Thatcher and plunged into a wellspring of questions about what we actually know about this person the world so definitively characterized in one way or another.

Unfortunately, far too many of these books are exercises in self-promotion or revisionist history, and with thinly veiled ideological agendas.