But the attendee said he and others were skeptical, and suspected the prince was merely hiding his anxieties.
At bedtime, Ann crawled in beside him in the bottom bunk, lying there until he fell asleep, assuring him that Dick was merely hiding at a friend's house, that he would be found and brought home.
Short for 'purely obsessional', the word is a misnomer, as the compulsions are very much present, they're merely hidden.
There's been plenty of discussion about just how private Snapchat is, whether that's apps like Snapchat Hack, which circumvents Snapchat's protection and allows people to share images, or the discovery that on Android "deleted" photos are merely hidden on the device, and can be retrieved with the right forensic software.
It is merely hiding in the swamp.
While the dramatic story initially attracted the attention of the media in the weeks around Christmas 1972, republicans sent out the message that she was merely "in hiding" because of the publicity; headlines like "Missing mother reported to be back in Belfast" began emerging.
Cate Blanchett and I are trying to determine whether she's a fake - or whether she's merely as hidden from herself as she seems to be hidden from strangers who would like to capture her essence over breakfast at the Chateau Marmont, tape recorder and pen at the ready.
In a statement posted on Facebook he insisted that he had "nothing to hide," but was merely trying to stop what he called the "cynical use" of "private photos from my Facebook profile in order to publicly misrepresent my opinions".
Whether that money was used to influence Mr. Edwards's run at the 2008 presidential nomination or was merely an effort to help him hide the affair from his wife, the late Elizabeth Edwards, is at the heart of the six charges he faces.
"Then foes claimed that Bachmann hid behind some bushes to spy on a gay-rights rally; she said she was merely checking the turnout".
