Sentence examples for veiled question from inspiring English sources

At the Q and A session a thinly veiled question to Polly Toynbee up on the platform from the audience asked innocently how Labour could expect to win when Guardian columnists kept putting the boot into Brown.

But it will be a veiled question about the government's popularity.

It has now banned both the veiled question gay candidates dreaded—"is there anything in your past that could embarrass the party?"—and pressure to parade a spouse as proof of soundness.

We slept together -- usually in the same formation -- on a California King, although, I quickly figured out this was a veiled question not about literal sleeping, but rather biblical sleeping.

"The veil question is complicated," Jasmine muses in the book.

The veil question has exposed a staggering level of thoughtless illiberalism, and not just where you'd expect to find it.

(Where Policewoman Mary Sullivan got her orders is a question veiled in mystery).

Less sophisticated critics decried Columbia's "self-centered Care Bears"; sharper observers objected to how the trigger-warning conversation disguised the larger preoccupations of the text, veiling ethical questions of force and consent in the language of personal harm.

In a television interview to promote the film, he was asked the not-so-veiled question: "You must feel very strongly about this subject to risk losing possibly a large part of your audience by appearing in such a bitterly controversial film?" With manufactured insouciance, Bogarde counters, "I don't think so, no.

When "coaching" is practiced in this way, it's actually just an overbearing approach to leadership — albeit thinly veiled in directive questions.

Pack on a little padding, and the question comes veiled in a statement like, "Someone sure did enjoy the sweet potato casserole at Thanksgiving.