| 单词 | veil |
| 例句 | I sneezed and bent to look closely at the white veil that lay over the weeds. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were on an island in a sea of trees, and the horizon was veiled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I tugged my black veil down to my chin and strode in through the wrought-iron gates. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I saw the glimmer of bare skin, like a pale veil separating two bloody-minded adversaries. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I startle awake and jump at the sight of Ivy's dark veil leaning over me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Concealed, veiled, eclipsed—peeping out from behind the shroud very seldom, and then only to yearn for the return of her mask. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind picked up, lifting her veil and lashing her cheeks with salt spray. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They watched me through veils, with a kind of delicate horror. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backward through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I glanced to where Maribel lay, curled up in the sleeping bag, her hair spread like a veil over her face, then I turned back to Arturo. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When she came down, carrying fat, sleepy Campbell Junior, her mass of red hair was combed, pinned up, and draped with what she called “my genteel black veil.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z With a veil of red to conceal her stealthy, free hand, Kaltain flicked off the lid of the vial and dumped the contents into the wine. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that carried information in a coded and compressed form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “It would be like putting a veil on the Mona Lisa.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The dusk deepened, and the last gleams of the sunset were veiled in cloud. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If we lift the veil and look underneath...we shall discover much emptiness, darkness, and confusion; nay, if I mistake not, direct impossibilities and contradictions.... Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A country woman watched Miss Love and spent her egg money on a dust veil. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And if so, whose face he had seen in the mirror under the veil? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z At the funeral, Gertrude, wrapped in black veils, followed her husband's coffin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She tugs the black mist of her veil back down over her face. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And then she began to dance, a slow sensuous movement; the smoke of a hundred cigars clinging to her like the thinnest of veils. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “How well you read me, you witch!” interposed Mr. Rochester: “but what did you find in the veil besides its embroidery? Did you find poison, or a dagger, that you look so mournful now?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Around us, the countryside lay veiled and mysterious, silent in the night and fog. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She puts on the veil to go outside, but nobody much cares who sees the face of a Martha. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Stroke after stroke he dealt, until at last all the web within his reach was shattered, and the upper portion blew and swayed like a loose veil in the incoming wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z No change in the expression of the eyes, but a hard wetness that veiled them as they looked at the stretch of her mother’s foolish smile. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I realized there was no fog veiling my window. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The windows gleamed like beaten gold or silver, but now John saw, in the yellow light, how fine dust veiled their doubtful glory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Lourdes remembers her own exodus, the watercolor landscape she wrapped in brown paper, her wedding veil and riding crops and the sack of birdseed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the night Laurence Hurd rose up to attack the whites in the audience for their hypocrisy, for using religion as a thin veil for their own racism. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His slate-blue eyes pierced through the veil of smoke wreathing his features. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She pulled her veil more securely across her face and lowered her gaze to her lap. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It looked like a room of little bridal veils. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked up to see two agitated physicians and a nurse, and thought, It's too late now, and lay in a veil of sweat watching them manipulate the controls. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A protective veil had been lifted and Ted now started pushing me about everything. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His words confused me and his eyes were veiled. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At least a dozen butterflies circle her head and shoulders, wrapping her in a rainbow veil. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Once again, his eyes fling disapproval over me like a heavy veil. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Leaning forward and peering, Rick studied Pamina in her heavy, convoluted robes, with her wimple trailing its veil about her shoulders and face. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Everyone was crying quietly now, touching the veil of the Virgin for comfort. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone in a tall building in Omaha or Des Moines, say, who chanced to look in the right direction would see a bewildering veil of turmoil followed by instantaneous oblivion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes, I glimpse the shadow of dark eyes as they peer at us through their veils, but when they see me look, they turn away. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z "Why do you and the other big sisters wear veils now? You never did when we were at home." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In the dying light, only its stark silhouette was visible; what it contained within was veiled in shadow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Tom looked at his father with veiled eyes, trying to read the effect of Olive’s letter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her duster and hat and veil lay on a chair beside her, and she seemed to the boys to be clad entirely in black silk and lace. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To drink it, the priestess had to remove her veil, and Selmy was reminded of just how old she was. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They wrung rosaries and veils between their fingers, clutched their chests, ripped their hair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Project Elrond" had taken on a dark connotation throughout the Space Center, veiled in secrecy. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I paint her in blue, with the usual white veil, but with the head of a lioness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When I looked up again, my father was standing at the foot of a spiral staircase with a group of veiled women all around him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z That wind had brought the Moors, yes, but it had also brought the smell of the desert and of veiled women. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the veil broke, you could see silvery islands of clouds on which tall angels might stand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Just behind the veil of the vacation was not a soft face of laughter, but something hard and bony and perhaps terrifying. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore an ivory shift and a long white veil and carried a bouquet of white carnations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s just a pity that a bee got under Miss Love’s dust veil about time she crept the car around the Confederate monument. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When the alcoholic vet touched him with his unsteady, inept hand, I saw the look of veiled contempt in Charley’s eyes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Fire raced up his arm and over his body until he was completely shrouded in a thin veil of flame. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Lourdes recognizes a passerby, a heavyset woman with a veiled pillbox hat who praised her Boston cream pies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Up above the treetops, a crescent moon was floating in a dark sky, half-obscured by mist, like an eye peering through a veil of silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That's where the real clues were buried, among the veiled threats and pompous promises, the slogans and silliness in that hodgepodge of a will. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank God!” he exclaimed, “that if anything malignant did come near you last night, it was only the veil that was harmed. Oh, to think what might have happened!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She put a heavy veil on his head and tied it around his face so that it covered all except his eyes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a black dress, gloves, and a black veiled hat like a star from an old 1940s movie. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Instinctually she reached up to pull down her headband and adjust her veil. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z In some lights they were hardly there at all, just visible as a drifting quality in the light, a rhythmic evanescence, like veils of transparency turning before a mirror. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore no veils, but as they came forward, Desdemona saw brown school oxfords on their feet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Now Jack was veiling too and Ralph could no longer make himself heard. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In her lap, black Drogon hissed, and pale smoke rose before her face like a veil. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The veil of security I thought the uniform provided had been lifted, and now we hustled in our black dress shoes and stained wool pants through dirty fields and grassy yards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Besides, a heavy gauze hung from the open lid and down over the front of the coffin to veil him. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She had made her “g”s the same way he did: He searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A taut spotted veil was stretched over her face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her smile, different from Pris’s, provided simple warmth; it had no veiled overtones. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Each evening the sun colored the buildings ochre and lit the motes of dust raised by the breeze until the air itself became a soft orange veil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Onstage that night, John Edwards took a shot at Clinton, speaking in veiled terms about sincerity and trustworthiness being important. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They were wrapped up in so many coats and mufflers and veils and shawls that they looked like big, shapeless bundles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He contemplated the veil of Maya, the existence of various planes of being. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As if a dark veil had been withdrawn, the Mirror grew grey, and then clear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Their thinly veiled condescension, their false validations irritated her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His face took on the sad veil of someone trying to get used to sacrificing what he wanted so badly. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When the city appeared before her, its walls and towers shimmering white behind a veil of heat, it looked so beautiful that Dany was certain it must be a mirage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A black crepe dress splashed with pink and yellow zinnias, foxtails, a black felt hat with the veil of net lowered over one eye. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A yellow veil framed her face, and her hands were already covered with henna patterns. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Thin black veils covered the lolas’ faces as they clutched their rosaries and wept loudly over his casket. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But it hadn’t always hidden at the bottom of the world behind a veil of frozen mist. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I made my way over to where the hill started its incline, dotted with low shrubs and a thin veil of elm trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When we reached the waterfront, I saw the old dockmaster coming along toward us, the smoke from his pipe trailing behind him like a dirty veil, and I hurried ahead to meet him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Lady Isobel came down from her bedroom dressed in black, a veil covering her face, and announced that the funeral would take place the next day in the church at noon. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A veiled woman wearing a crown walks alongside the palanquin with her hand resting on the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The moon hung pale in the sky above the church tower, and the night wore a veil of moonlight when the Magpie came back to fetch Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Heat rose shimmering through the chill air; behind, the gargoyles and stone dragons on the castle walls seemed blurred, as if Davos were seeing them through a veil of tears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her husband was furious when he saw her draping the veil over her sunbonnet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Lurking underneath the veil of medieval philosophy, however, was a conflict. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Merely to lift off the heavy white wings and the veil, merely to feel my own hair again, with my hands, is a luxury. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z All I could do was watch as Polyphemus turned and ripped off Grover’s wedding veil—revealing his curly hair, his scruffy adolescent beard, his tiny horns. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I knew who it was right off, before she turned and looked at me and lifted up her veil. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I edged around the comer of my parents’ wagon and peered through a veil of leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z People crowded in on all sides, men in masks, women in veils—or maybe they were men in veils and women in masks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s not bad. Comfortable to wear, that’s one blessing. I shall take off the veil if I get too hot. What are you wearing?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He looked at me with his tired eyes, veiled by despair. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Reyna peered up at the ivory face of Athena, veiled beneath camouflage netting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I miss her, but I don’t know how to tell her, and my suggestion comes out as a veiled insult. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Surrounding her were candles she burned in daylight, clean yellow diamonds, footlights that ringed her, mysterious masked mother, nose and mouth veiled with a cowboy handkerchief. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hazel eyes, under their veil of long lashes, had a greenish flash to them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When I walked behind August in my bee veil, I felt like a moon floating behind a night cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Thula peered at him silently for a moment, her expression veiled, then dropped her eyes as she began to speak. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Their features were vague through the gauze of her veil, but Nina glimpsed the tattoos on their forearms: a feral cat curled into a crown—the symbol of the Dime Lions. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He stared at Harry for a few seconds, then said, “You fly very veil. I vos votching at the first task.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The veiled women followed him with their beautiful pink gowns crackling like damp wood in a fire. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I’d been ready for a muscular thug and negotiations filled with thinly veiled threats and bravado. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Such daylight as followed was dim; for here as the Mountain drew near the air was ever mirky, while out from the Dark Tower there crept the veils of Shadow that Sauron wove about himself. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He lay as though asleep, his eyes veiled and unseeing, his lip still curled in a snarl. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Elinor was still looking at Capricorn, a blurred sight through the veil of her false tears. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Sat in the store window nearly all day, wearing a veil, a duster, and a frozen smile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z With one huge hand he reached for Thor’s veil. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I envied them the order of their lives, the precision with which they marched with no prodding and no harsh glances, the mysterious black figures beside them like veiled anchors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z This was the great safety of the tramp, a protective veil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Like a ghost diffusing through the veil of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Arabella stands at Charlotte's side, veiled, shoulders slumped, holding and stroking her frail hand. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Somehow she made it to morning’s light and the lifting of the veil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A round veiled woman stands behind a screen; only her silhouette shows. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “We have not slept, and so the veil has not yet covered our eyes.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then I placed the jungle helmet on my head, letting the veil fall down over my face. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing a pale blue dress, a gossamer veil, and a scowl, gesturing at herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was with a woman and two girls, all three with those colorful veils on their heads. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z As a recording of “Here Comes the Bride” played over the loudspeaker in the Northeast Baltimore church, the rear doors opened and the veiled bride began her slow procession toward the altar. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The rest of us waited in the shallows, where the water’s slick shine was veiled with a dark lace of floating ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We used to dare each other to get a look at her, and see what was under her veil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Stitched into the dress and in ropes at my throat and forming the crown for the veil. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She was dressed like a bride, in a white gown, white lace hood, and sheer veil, walking toward the altar, down the aisle of that converted barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Thor just as carefully swept the rest of the pastries up, and they vanished, to the sound of munching, under the veil. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The most recent quote was, “He who doesn’t fear death dies only once,” which I thought was maybe some veiled reference to his father, but I couldn’t unpack it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z All around them the Wood was changing, shifting, as if a veil were being lifted and she was finally allowed to see what was behind it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So she went down from her room into the hall, attended by two maids and holding a veil before her face, looking so lovely her courtiers trembled to see her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A sweet haze veiled the sunset: cherries roasting in the Maricopas. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Few Americans today recognize mass incarceration for what it is: a new caste system thinly veiled by the cloak of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And it laid its veil over the island, so that Malaga shone with a luminous silver—every stone, every pine—as if an artist had engraved it and set it on the water. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Hazel, however, returned and sat pensive at the lip of the hole, looking out at the silent, rippling veils of rain that drifted across and across the little valley between the two copses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath her veil the first one scowls at us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s chatting with Mom for a minute, and I know Mom is trying to focus, to lift a comer of her veil so that she’ll be able to see the big things. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z And on the far side of the studio, three naked women, with thin red scarves veiling their bodies, are modeling on a platform surrounded by a group of students sketching. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The veil makes it look as if she were peering down at him through a wire screen. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She was in white, the full traditional wear, and, as far as Briony could tell from the rear, was heavily veiled. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The shabby walls and worn stones seemed to shimmer as if a translucent silk veil covered them, muting any flaws and transforming the house into a dwelling of luminous light and delicate shadows. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Behind its deep curtain the Forest was completely veiled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He had a veil of thinning brown hair and a goatee framing his lips. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z One was a veil and the other a maiden’s cloak. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom closes her eyes, and I know that she is lifting a comer of her veil. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Dusk veiled their feet, and mist rose in the hollows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Hesiod says that only when men have finally become completely wicked will Nemesis and Aidos, their beautiful faces veiled in white raiment, leave the wide-wayed earth and depart to the company of the immortals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, what was very strange, the soft things she had wrapped him in, her veil and a cloak woven by her own hands, were gone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Giant waterwheels and turbines churn along the water's edge behind veils of smoke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In the kitchen Grandma had her gardening hat on, with the chigger veil. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I lift my veil to get a better look at it all. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Timothy could not lift the veil, and the two other boys were busy being ten and eight years old, respectively. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She was only a little taller than Mr. Pennypacker and dressed all in black, including the veil on her hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They kissed until his brain spun, until her limbs fell loose and soft and open, until the moon hid its face behind a veil of clouds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The gowns and crinolines and veils worn by the dolls were all faded to beige and grey and fawn, and the faces were almost worn away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Then she was across the porch I couldn't hear her heels then in the moonlight like a cloud, the floating shadow of the veil running across the grass, into the bellowing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you say King made a veiled threat against Starr because of her interview?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z When President Cleveland’s carriage came to Sol Bloom’s Algerian Village, at the Muslim core of the Midway, Bloom gave a nod, and the women of the village dropped their veils. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z With a few notable exceptions, most of the stories were thinly veiled accounts of the author's life as he or she attempted to complete the assignment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Around her, masked and veiled men and women crowded onto the terraced ledges, stamping their feet as the action proceeded below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z From some of the nation’s leading scientists would come denunciations of Oppenheimer, veiled and overt, among them Edward Teller’s assertion that “I personally would feel more secure if public matters would rest in other hands.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I do remember imagining myself in a pith helmet and white linen jodhpurs, my face enigmatic behind a veil of mosquito netting. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With all these veiled messages flying through the air, World War I soon became the war of the code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her face was veiled, and I never got close enough for a good look. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Behind a veil of ragged clouds, a full moon floated fat and white as a snowball. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The dress is much like mine in shape, long and concealing, but with a bib apron over it and without the white wings and the veil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore jeans and a regular collared shirt, but still had on her black veil. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I strained my eyes upon that cliffside veiled in cloud, but nowhere could I catch sight of her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The web glistened in the light and made a pattern of loveliness and mystery, like a delicate veil. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z A woman in a black veil told them, “I see light and long-term happiness ahead for you two,” and Curt said, “So do we!” and gave her an extra ten dollars. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The light faded from the cave door, and the grey veil of falling water grew dim and was lost in gathering shadow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Campbell Junior pulled at the veil all the way to our house, and Aunt Loma fussed all the way. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Katie was kneeling, staring straight ahead, her face white and quiet under the widow’s veil. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And although my mother never said anything to me, I knew she would probably have preferred that I had worn a veil. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She doesn’t mean that it’s a real veil. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Gertrude smiled and danced with a reserved grace, but I could see that she veiled her pain behind her cool eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Her unusual veil is the entire length of her gown, giving away nothing of her outward appearance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z One veil was a pale blue, and its puddle of light was turned into blue shadow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It is only Marguerite, a cool Madonna with her ivory face framed by its white veil. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is not exactly what she means, but the invisible veil she has drawn over the table seems too difficult to explain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Failure to tear away that veil had turned my father into an anachronism. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Those smiles never touched Plumm’s eyes, where greed hid behind a veil of caution. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a veil, a background, and its sudden disappearance, as after a clap of thunder, was a shocking thing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She wore silk dresses, high heels, jewelry, and hats with veils. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z A thin, cottony layer of clouds veiled the sky. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They sat along my arms, speckled the bee veil so I could scarcely see through it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A veil covers me, an attempt at protection against the ever-present newsies and courtiers in the palace halls. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I did so, and as soon as the door was closed the woman threw off her veil the better to select what she wanted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother echoed him, adding that God had placed a veil over her eyes so she wouldn’t stop the contractions. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This came chiefly from a blazing log-fire, for the three lamps hanging from the beams were dim, and half veiled in smoke. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But above the roof of the cabin, the hills were veiled with rain clouds. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She was taken to the room with the long, brown table, except now there was a bowl of sugar-coated almond candy in the middle of the table, a Koran, a green veil, and a mirror. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I smile and nod along with his statement, but it sounds like a thinly veiled threat. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Piggy peered anxiously into the luminous veil that hung between him and the world. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z When I was done, the silence settled over us, still and soft, like a veil. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “These American girls could use a veil or two.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The snow was piled high, the blocks’ windows veiled in frost. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrapped these things in her First Communion veil and placed them in the box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And as she gazed, the image of a city seemed to form itself behind the veils and streams of translucent color: towers and domes, honey-colored temples and colonnades, broad boulevards and sunlit parkland. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She nodded in the direction of the mountain, Tse-pi’na, the woman veiled in clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The hysteria has gotten so intense here that a Muslim girl was sent home for wearing a black veil over her hair. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They kneel and the Commander prays and then they take the red veil, as the rest of us have done. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z So I turned at the door: I saw a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The fortune-teller’s face is hidden behind a fine black veil, but the light catches her eyes as she smiles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The white has burned away, leaving a smooth, fitted veil of black that drapes into the neckline of the dress in the back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In Ged's eyes there was a dark vision that overlapped and veiled the grey sea and the grey sky, and the darkness grew, and the veil thickened. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He has covered my face with an opaque veil. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It’s safe to talk again, the Commander has finished the main ritual and they’re doing the rings, lifting the veils. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And now, this woman, this mother, with her heartbreakingly eager, crooked smile and the barely veiled hope in her eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing regular clothes, jeans and a sweater, but her head was wrapped in a shawl, a thin brown veil. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an eternity of cloud and wind. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Growing up with a beautiful older sister is like wearing a veil. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then Mr. Hofacket ducked under his black veil and held up his magnesium flash powder. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She undid her veil and threw it back over her hat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But of course, because she was wearing a veil, what they saw would not at once look like a forehead and a pair of eyes. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned the light upon the pallet, half-expecting her to still be there; but there was only a pool of warm blood, a faint veil of vapor hovering in the air above it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought of our wedding night, gazing at each other’s reflection in the mirror under the green veil, and how her cheeks blushed when I whispered that I loved her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In her confusion, she packed riding crops and her wedding veil, a watercolor landscape, and a paper sack of birdseed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her black hair hung in a shiny veil on either side of her pale and beautiful face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave him her veil, which would keep him from harm as long as he was in the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z After mass, long after the priest’s words stopped echoing against the cement walls, she remained in church, inspecting the pews for forgotten veils or rosary beads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z To these families, it all seemed so disingenuous, the thinly veiled plea for mercy and, most of all, the idea that Reggie was taking responsibility, “willing to man up.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The archive reflects the human need to document every deed and directive, to place a veil of administrative tidiness over the disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Coming towards us there’s a small procession, a funeral: three women, each with a black transparent veil thrown over her headdress. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The men wore dark suits, the women wore veils. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of fermented fruit was overpowering, and a haze of escaped flies lifted off the tables like a buzzing veil every time Morgan moved. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She seemed like a fair bird-girl girdled in veils calling to me from the angry surface of some gray and threatening sea. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But most stunning of all: The women’s headscarves and veils were gone. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Looking ahead one sees it broaden, rising and curving slowly, dwarfing the dark ridges of earth, meeting the ice-wall far above under veils of cloud and smoke and snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And there, there—now just passing into the courtyard—was Robin’s lovely mother, the veil of her coif floating and mingling with that of the Queen whom she attended. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He decks me out in the shoes and the pearl jewelry and the veil. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The man has a large dark mark on his forehead; the woman’s veil has been torn off, and her hair falls in strands over her face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Out soared a dazzling fairy with wings like shimmering veils of gold. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Far off, it seemed, half veiled in winding cloud, there loomed the island rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The mountains were veiled in deepening dusk, and the wind was cold. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She still wore her long black dress and rosary beads, but had no veil on her head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z To Frodo it appeared that a white light was shining through the form and raiment of the rider, as if through a thin veil. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His skull rang in the silence, and he watched shock-still as the storm of hot dirt and rocks and branches and weeds rained down upon him and then wasted itself to a veil of grit. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She smiled at me as I went out, then quickly lowered the veil again about her face. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed like a mismatched set of bookends in their flowing gowns, beads, and veils. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In the daytime I could feel him near me, sense not so much his friendship but his vigilance and guidance, the veil of his cover. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They spoke in veiled attacks about his mediation of talks surrounding the black boycotts of Korean businesses across the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair fell in a shiny veil over her shoulders. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Isobel pushes the veil that is slipping over her face back behind her head again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The bottle careens and thuds to the carpet, ink pours down over the skyscape, veiling Mrs. Smeath in Parker’s Washable Blue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One of the curtain robes was draped over her head as a veil and she carried a big bouquet of only slightly wilted dahlias. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time the giant’s smoky veil started creeping around one of them, Nico was there, slashing through it, drinking in the darkness with his Stygian blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Broken images were racing each other through his mind: Sirius falling through the veil; Dumbledore suspended, broken, in midair; a flash of green light and his mother’s voice, begging for mercy... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There we sat, draped like tired bridesmaids with our yards of white veil, numbed by the airplane’s horrible noise, skimming above the treetops. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As he went by the cave-mouth he saw that the Curtain was now become a dazzling veil of silk and pearls and silver thread: melting icicles of moonlight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When that veil isn’t hanging down right in front of a person’s face, a minute is long enough to realize a lot of things. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “A tall figure, all in white with a veil over its face and a lamp in its wasted hand,” went on Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a vessel on her shoulder, and her head was covered by a veil, but her face was uncovered. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Princess and maids delighted in that feast; then, putting off their veils, they ran and passed a ball to a rhythmic beat, Nausikaa flashing first with her white arms. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She wears a jeweled veil over her face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A thin bank of clouds below the ridge mirrored the heavier layer overhead, but forests, grasslands, and the shimmering arcs of rivers were visible through the misty veil. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He sailed a rough chopping sea above which clouds drooped and drifted in vast mournful veils. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z To soften their glare, veils had been thrown over the shades. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z And for the first time, Will and Lyra thought they could see those things, like veils of shimmering gauze, falling from the sky like thistledown. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His eye managed to twinkle through the veil of cataracts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They waited in silence, the emperor’s figure getting smaller and smaller as he walked away, the snow slowly veiling him from view. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Sister Redempta looked nearly worn out. We saw her without her veil on and her sleeves all rolled up. She's almost like a regular woman,” I said. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Lord Hand,” she said, her face hidden behind shimmering green veils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Like a veil, like a thin mist, a weariness settled on Siddhartha, slowly, every day a little thicker, every month a little darker, every year a little heavier. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z She motions for me to lift my veil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z His eyes veiled suspiciously, and he leaned over to see if anyone else was hanging out from the other windows in the building. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was, in his expression, a veiled amusement, as though he did not see why she should be so upset but was better off not saying so. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was as though an invisible veil had been lifted, and beneath it a different truth flickered in his friend’s eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z What did that have to do with this momentous rending of the veil, I wondered. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She saw the bulge of pregnancy under the virginal veil of the bride as she stepped into the hired carriage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Schools for girls had been burned to the ground, and all women were forced to wear a severe form of burqa, a head-to-toe veil that had only a tiny fabric grille for their eyes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The departures of Wilson and Spencer left Smith and Hickock and Andrews alone with the Row’s burning lights and veiled windows. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was panting as he approached the little house set back in a clearing of the woods, indistinct among the shadows and the veils of fog that enveloped it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But behind that veil, many believed, was often a thinly disguised contempt for the fundamental social changes taking place at the school, and on the west side of town in general. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He said it was flaming red and that there were thin veils of high clouds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She was so unused to being treated well by a man that she watched him endlessly, anxiously, her eyes veiled, as though holding her breath and waiting for the abuse to emerge. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He dipped his finger into the comb and, lifting my veil, brought it close to my lips. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Odysseus clung to a single beam, like a jockey riding, meanwhile stripping Kalypso’s cloak away; then he slung round his chest the veil of Ino and plunged headfirst into the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel Ivy's stares through her veil, no doubt waiting for me to ask her to stay. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Looking at Soraya’s smiling face in that mirror, in the momentary privacy of the veil, 1 whispered to her for the first time that I loved her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The veil she tore into strips, and tied Aunt Elizabeth up with them, behind the furnace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see Beatrice, dear friendly tactless Beatrice, watching me from her partner’s arms, nodding encouragement, the bangles jangling on her wrists, the veil slipping continually from her over-heated forehead. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The great billows of smoke veiled their audacity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If this was a man’s world, a veil took the rough beard right off it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, I can’t see you very well in this cursed veil. . ..” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Her veil and linen duster were on the floor beside the bee, which she had stomped to death, and Miss Love was buttoning her shirtwaist. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Some in the gallery would later say that his stillness suggested a disdain for the proceedings; others felt certain it veiled a fear of the verdict that was to come. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘Beyond all hope you return to us in our need! What veil was over my sight? Gandalf!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The veil on the other lamp cast a pattern of moons and stars onto the ceiling. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They lay deep in the heather and counted out the slow hours, in which there seemed little change; for they were still under the shadows of the Ephel Dúath, and the sun was veiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z You would never know they had such meager beginnings, these veils, bow ties, even wedding rings braided from machine wire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So why had that shimmering veil of reverie been drawn over him now? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When Dicey awoke the next morning, she saw filmy shadows, as if the inside of the trailer was swathed in veils. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He had dropped his veil, and he stood there trembling, like a trapped animal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After Clayton said good-bye, we fastened on our hats and veils and went out to the hives, bearing armloads of black crepe material cut in giant squares. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There are cheesy hats, old-lady hats with veiling around them, and hair combs stuck with imitation rhinestones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But then again, everything below the summit seemed fuzzy to me, as if there were a thick veil between me and the lower half of the mountain. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A little of her hair was showing, from under her veil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But as they walked, the morning bloomed in the distance, its light slowly filtered over Ma and Ba through the veil of tree branches so he could finally blow out the candle in his lantern. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Black veils covered their faces, and as they passed in front of Ultima they turned away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She could feel the name fall upon her like a shimmering veil. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath and watched Thor inhale another whole salmon and pull a salmon skeleton out from under his veil. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Her long veil sweeps along the cobblestone passage. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A tattered veil covered his face, He was standing in a dank cave, lit only by torches. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But he was impervious to the veiled criticism. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But what's that to do with you in this heat under this veiled sun? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He spotted the exit and sprinted toward it, but a figure loomed in front of him—a woman in robes of dry swirling earth, her face covered in a veil of dust. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some just draped see-through black veils over their hair; others wore trousers, even jeans. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love was planning a window display of linen dusters, dust veils, and driving caps with goggles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z With looks of veiled significance, our two white companions bade us follow. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Unlike most mortals, she could see through the Mist—the magic veil that distorts human vision. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I regarded with awe the ‘wedding ring’ on a nun’s finger, her black ‘wedding veil’—symbols of marriage to God. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Saint Sarah hugs her so hard that she leaves shimmering eye shadow on Sausun’s veil. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Carefully adjusting my veil from time to time so that no one across the aisle could see me—I had a seat to myself, thank God. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He rips at reality and tears aside concealing veils. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, when he wanted to talk about Miss Lyte, she would veil her eyes and look at him from out of the corners, and say nothing. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the veil of dream, the Sorrows were waiting for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She imagined her on horseback, smiling shyly behind a veiled green gown, her palms painted red with henna, her hair parted with silver dust, the braids held together by tree sap. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The attending nurse lifts the hooded veil and helps me up. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z There weren’t many things Jam knew about Pet, but she knew she would be safe with it, no matter what unseen monsters remained veiled in Lucille. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z According to Woods’s acoustic simulations, every word should have been audible below, lifting the veil of secrecy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And now the twenty veiled daughters, in white, come shyly forward, their mothers holding their elbows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark clouds raced across the sky, veiling the moon and altering the shadows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z But in front a thin veil of water was hung, so near that Frodo could have put an outstretched arm into it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The motor turns, and I lean forward, pulling the white curtain across mv face, like a veil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were hidden behind blue veils, with only their eyes showing. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls turned their backs to him, not so much to ignore his veiled remark as to show him they had no fear of him. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z She’d anchored it with a veil to keep the mosquitoes away, and tied it under her chins. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, seeing where the voice came from, she lowered her brows and veiled her eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The red veil goes on, though, covering my damp hair, my head, which has not been shaved. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet by a sense other than sight Pippin perceived that Gandalf had the greater power and the deeper wisdom, and a majesty that was veiled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His queen mother stood beside him in a black mourning gown slashed with crimson, a veil of black diamonds in her hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “The Mist. It’s . . . well, it’s like this veil that hides the way things really are. Some mortals are born with the ability to see through it. Like you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But then she put on three boxes of tinsel, one strand at a time, so that the entire tree was under a silver veil. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z He pointed to a spot veiled from the path by only a thin fringe of swaying rushes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z We walk around happily with these invisible veils hanging down over our faces. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z All her life, she’d heard about the Mist—the supernatural veil that obscured the world of myth from the sight of mortals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Only time, a prudish veil of hours, prevented her brother from seeing her as she had been. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Oh, you know, clearing Luce’s stuff out. God, she was a pack rat. You can barely open her drawers. You know, I found your grandmother’s wedding veil. I’ve been looking for that thing for ages.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z So thin, so frail and thin, the veils were become that still warded it off. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Steven placed a ring on her finger and lifted her veil for a kiss. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin was cold and clammy, his stomach kept heaving even though there was nothing left in there to come up, and he was pretty sure he could see the veil of the afterlife lifting. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Or to one of Dadi’s “soul bearers from beyond the veil.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She pulled her veil down and we went down stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman dabbed a smear of honey off her lips, gave Qezza and Grazhar each a parting kiss upon the brow, and fastened her silken veil across her face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yet instead of receiving recognition and gratitude, Los Alamos received “rather thinly veiled criticism” that it was not up to the job of weapons research and development. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t use such dreadful expressions,” replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A black veil seemed to hover over their skin. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z August hardly ever wore anything but the hat and veil. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Its whiteness contrasted starkly with the black veil that framed her head like a shroud. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A veil had descended over my eyes, but I felt twenty years old and had the strength of a bull. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Deborah, black, her body as shapeless and hard as iron, looked on with veiled, triumphant eyes, cursing the Florence who had mocked her in her pain and barrenness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z "Lady Claudine," I say with a bow, and lift my veil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The day was murderously hot and there was no wind and the dust hung above the army like a yellow veil. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Therese wears a veil that she wraps around her head when she works, making her look like a Turk. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I am pressed against soft bosoms, poked by veiled hats, and engulfed by jasmine, lavender, and rose water. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Bigger stood with his lips slightly parted, his hands hanging loosely by his sides, his eyes watchful, but veiled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He covered his life with a veil of vagueness, while behind his quiet eyes a rich full life went on. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind it there hung a vast shadow, ominous as a thunder-cloud, the veils of Barad-dûr that was reared far away upon a long spur of the Ashen Mountains thrust down from the North. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He puffed on cigars, his eyes shining through a veil of blue smoke. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She was tall, dressed in white, wearing a pith helmet with veils that floated across her face, settled around her shoulders, and trailed down her back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A phul-khana, a wedding veil of fine silk and embroidered in gold thread, disappeared overnight. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z When they came to the Chetwood already the boughs were almost bare, and a great curtain of rain veiled Bree Hill from their sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Here’s one from a few years earlier: Mrs. Roodveldt’s bridal portrait, her eyes lowered, a lace veil covering her hair and a small bouquet of lilacs in her hands. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It is a haunted expression, the boy of curiosity and playfulness hidden now beneath a veil. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She helps me into my traveling cloak and gives me a veil; I tiptoe back through the main salon and out the front apartment doors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z To save money, Helen rented a Western-style, white gown with a matching veil. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Thor glared at Loki from beneath the veil. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The young moon was glimmering in a misty sky, but it gave small light, and the stars were veiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The mesas to the east were obscured by veils of falling snow, and the sky above them was dark blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, as though veiled in a private grief, the lawyer wistfully said, “And even after all of that you did nothing to discourage him?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I spot tears brimming in her eyes through her veil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The veil die wore was too heavy to allow her to feel die core of the kiss he pressed on her head. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there’s a wind blowing it from our faces. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When Ivy faces me again, she lifts her veil, and I take a step back, holding in a gasp. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They swarm, spinning a silk veil, one hundred thousand spider thoughts woven together until they wrap me up in a cosy shroud. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z There before them, behind a veil of falling snow, yawned the Battlements Gate, flanked by a pair of guards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She lifted back the veils from her hat, then lifted mine back, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He drew a veil of cloud in front of himself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Joe looked up and gazed out the window with veiled, nonchalant eyes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is becoming easier to see her expression through her veil as his eyes adjust to the candlelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Dicey was hypnotized by the molten silver of the cloudy islands and not until the veil of fuzzy gray blew across it again did she begin their march of the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Such areas were usually invisible to the press, and the government used their inaccessibility to veil the cruelty of the state’s actions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s in one of her best dresses, sky blue with embroidery in white along the edges of the veil: flowers and fretwork. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst of it was veiled, the same way the Mist veiled monsters from mortal sight. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Vetch thought to see him fall and sink down in the sea, the sea that surely was there behind this dry, dim veil that hid away water, sky, and light. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She drew her veil closer so that more of her face was obscured, then lost herself in the crowd. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Picking up a new linen coat off the front seat, he held it out grandly for her to put on, then draped a big dust veil over her hat and face, and handed her in. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The mountain had been named for the swirling veils of clouds, the membranes of foggy mist clinging to the peaks, then leaving them covered with snow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing a new blue silk hat, draped with half a yard of spotted lace for a veil. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She lifted her veil and let it flutter away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Streams and veils of light hung like curtains, looped and festooned on invisible hooks hundreds of miles high or blowing out sideways in the stream of some unimaginable wind. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They made for a pretty portrait, the proud old woman all in green surrounded by the little girls robed and veiled in white, armored in their innocence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His veil kept tilting on his head, threatening to come off. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Her veil was gone, and she looked distinctly rumpled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The veils would keep the wind from blowing sand into her mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The loud speakers veiled their commands in a genial and musical politeness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z For that time it was Lancelot’s fate and Guenever’s to take the tonsure and the veil, while Mordred must be slain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There the trees grew so thick at the top that the sunshine was veiled. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Eventually, Laila found him sitting outside on a park bench, with a veiled woman at his side and a little boy in a skullcap, roughly Aziza’s age, bouncing on his knees. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Then, the women stopped and turned one by one to face me, slowly raising their veils. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They also interact with particles in the upper atmosphere to create the bewitching veils of light known as the auroras. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many people chose to visit this part of the Barrel in disguise—in veils or masks or capes with nothing but the glint of their eyes visible. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The stylish “Seabiscuit” ladies’ hat, with a fishnet veil, was all the rage in department stores on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In Lagos, the harmattan was a mere veil of haze, but in Nsukka, it was a raging, mercurial presence; the mornings were crisp, the afternoons ashen with heat, and the nights unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z What they did in their houses I do not know, for they employed servants to do the work; but they stayed mostly indoors, or if they went out at all they went veiled in bourkas. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Cilia gave him one of her sweet, veiled glances out of the corner of her eye. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was no sign of him; and there was a grey mist on the Barrow-downs southwards, and a deep veil over the Old Forest far away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The next day—spodess souls—we walked as a class up the aisle of the church, the girls in white dresses and veils like small brides, the boys in white pants and white shirts. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A curtain separated our side of the room from the end where my parents slept in a four-poster bed veiled with mosquito netting. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t guess what she was doing till she made like she was adjusting a veil and mouthed I do and all, and then went psssssssssssst. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A wispy veil of clouds covered the sky and the bright waxing gibbous moon. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In anterooms just inside the halls, more Fruit of Islam men and white-gowned, veiled mature Muslim sisters thoroughly searched every man, woman, and child seeking to enter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were too dumfounded to wave back, I reckon, or maybe didn’t recognize anybody but me, on account of the linen coats and Mama’s veil and Papa’s goggles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She lifted the cover from the pot of rice, and steam rose like a thick smoke, veiling her face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Slate-colored clouds veil the sky, and children shout in the shallow end, and parents talk or read magazines or doze in their chairs, and everything is normal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Kamau’s words were clipped as he looked down his nose at the man with only thinly veiled disgust. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Out of nowhere a veil of radiance had fallen to hang shimmering in the northern sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She felt veiled in cobwebs, a woman wedded to her family. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost like a part of me had already made that decision, and Laura’s words had simply pulled away a veil that had been covering it over. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither asked about the other, even though everyone knew their veiled comments about the villains in town were attacks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Bronze, they were, brighter than polished shields, glowing with their own heat, burning behind a veil of smoke rising from the dragon’s nostrils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were headdresses and veils, corsets with daggers concealed in the stays, elaborate capes, and teetering tall shoes carved of ebony and coral. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Positioned above the top railing of the bridge, but so her feet are not quite touching it, is a woman dressed in black, with a black hood or veil covering her hair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her long veil dusts the floor and her crown glitters. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When I went up to look at my grandmother, I saw her through the haze of a veil draped over the open lid of the casket. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They lay serene and still, wrapped in thin veils of drifting mist. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She's close enough for me to see underneath her veil a little, and she lingers there, as if she wants me to. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It looked like there were two layers of clouds now, one layer lower, like gray veil spread before the other. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And Daisy was dressed in her bridal gown and wore a white lace veil. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And why did I see them now as behind a veil that threatened to lift, stirred by the cold wind in the narrow street? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a veil of smoke, floating embers and ashes, pressing down. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Smith knew Seabiscuit was improving rapidly, but when he sent him out for workouts before the track dockers, he gave him only easy gallops that veiled his speed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the final photograph a black veil covered her face. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I tipped my veiled head forward and I could see her hands unfolding a red silk scarf and holding up a red candle for everyone to see. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind was turning his canoe around, veiling his words. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A sheath of diamonds and jeweled veil and moonlight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Her veil blends into the darkness of the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z By 5:00 A.M. the first hint of daylight glowed dimly in the east, and daybreak brought a chilly, misty, overcast day with snow squalls driving in ragged veils across the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But even when they reached the towers that flanked the gate itself, there was nothing to be seen beyond the veil of white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When he led Seabiscuit and Fair Knightess out for what was supposed to be a secret predawn workout veiled in thick fog, Smith discovered a thicket of dockers and reporters waiting for him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The past now seemed to him to be covered by a veil, extremely remote, very unimportant. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The women were veiled, and the men had brushed and lacquered their hair into horns and hands and spikes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Through the veil, from the corner of her eye, Mariam saw a tall man, thick-bellied and broad-shouldered, stooping in the doorway. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z My father’s eyes disappeared behind his dreaming veil. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It probably rained, and so they would have sat in the entrance for hours while the little stream poured down in a veil. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After she had bestowed her veil, the nereid dove like a gull to windward where a dark waveside closed over her whiteness. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The magician’s eyes veiled themselves like a vulture’s, as he vanished inside his mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind fluttered like the moths that veiled the street lamp which cast shadows upon the bank of grass below me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then while Miss Love was slapping at him under her veil, the bee fell down the front of her dress! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Then she takes out the final piece of my outfit: the face veil or niqab, a small rectangular piece of black fabric with ties extending on either side. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Then I saw Caddy, with flowers in her hair, and a long veil like shining wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love’s gray fall suit barely showed under hers, and she wore the dust veil over her red hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They put on mittens and coats and warm hoods and shawls, and wrapped mufflers around their necks and thick woolen veils over their faces. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Doreen lit a cigarette and let the smoke flare slowly from her nostrils so her eyes were veiled. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Transito removed her last veil, and her magnificent nakedness so overwhelmed me that I immediately felt deathly tired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She stepped into Porter and Irvine’s and looked at dresses and sometimes made a purchase— elastic, safety pins, a veil, a pair of gloves. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was in awe watching her and her friends as they walked freely down the streets of New York—with no veils covering their faces and no need for men to accompany them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A sort of...sharpening of the lines of her, as though a diaphanous veil had been lifted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The whitewash was only partially completed, and the kiva murals were veiled under the white clay wash, not yet repainted for the winter ceremonies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a distance, a veil between us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Held captive in an elaborate wedding dress and veil that seemed to be disintegrating into dust before our eyes, Bonham Carter brought a wry, offhand dottiness to the role; funny and poignant and strangely beautiful. At TIFF: 'Hyde Park,' 'Great Expectations,' Dame Maggie 2012-09-10T22:30:14Z “My now-husband and I both find the idea of a veil to be a little silly,” she said. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z My ancestors, of Celtic descent, once practiced Halloween as Samhain, a spiritual day when the veil between the worlds of the living and dead was the thinnest. My affair with witchcraft 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z To their black-tie wedding, Ms. Parnell wore a simple white crepe gown with a cathedral veil. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Smith said he was initially concerned that some readers might think some of the book’s more shocking scenes are just thinly veiled autobiography. Sex and Texas: Drew Nellins Smith on fiction, fact and his debut novel, 'Arcade' 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z These are questions that get to the heart of a musical culture that remains largely veiled to American listeners. Chinese Composers With an Ear to the World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z But he quickly shifts to a veiled threat. 'Justified' Recap: A Big Gun and a Land Grab 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z I loved the halibut, always a canvas begging for paint, here darkly veiled in pumpernickel crumbs and trailing a sumptuous, pale green sorrel velouté studded with salty bursts of wild American caviar. Terra Vista at the Snoqualmie Casino offers big portions, breathtaking views, hefty prices 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z Now he’s making veiled statements from a forward position. Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z Many of the models, with hair styled in rigorous asymmetrical bobs, wore long mesh veils, some dotted with small colored pom-poms. Colors can chase away the blues, says Giorgio Armani 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The fashion show closed with a glittering silver swimsuit as the brand’s bridal look, complete with a veil trailing from a swimming cap. In snowy Paris, Chanel recreates summery bliss, minus Lagerfeld 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The newsroom crackles with verisimilitude, its rotary phones, staccato typewriters and a veil of cigarette smoke evoking a bygone grittiness. Who’s Who in ‘The Post’: A Guide to the Players in a Pivotal Era 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw was as graceful vocally as she was in her movements, dancing under a veil as the spirit of Eurydice. Opera Review: Boston Early Music Festival Offers Charpentier Short Operas 2014-03-22T02:07:34Z Photographs of the dangling bodies were seen around the world, the girls’ mothers and grandmother crouching beneath them, veiling their faces, refusing to be moved. A Double Tragedy in India and the Search for Elusive Answers 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z When Donatella Versace showed, under a big, bold coat, a glimpse of naked male flesh briefly veiled in lingerie lace underpants, it was, apparently, an homage not to the body, but to the mind. The Greatcoat Fights Back 2013-01-13T18:36:27Z Gertrude, in a white cropped shirt and white slacks, wears a long white veil and belly dances seductively for her brother-in-law-turned-husband. ‘Hamlet’ Review: A Dirt-Eating Danish Prince, Born to Be Wild 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Mustard beurre blanc is often found providing a decorous yellow veil over a chicken breast or salmon fillet. Babs, a European Grill Where Sparks Fly 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Criterion's DVD and Blu-ray editions come loaded with extras, including commentary tracks, vintage Fosse interviews and featurettes that look at Fosse's entire career, helping to explain all the thinly veiled self-references in the film. AIDS drama 'Normal Heart' recalls days of 'gay plague' 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Americans should be confronted, he said, with whether they “really want a state-controlled Ministry of Information under the thinly veiled guise of a Pravda-like press.” Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it. 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The museum was interested in a more veiled or academic title, worried that the vaguely sexual entreaty of an ’80s R&B group was too direct. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z They provide distance between audience and play, a veil that offers both discretion and license. | 'Lysistrata': When the Puppets Called a Sex Strike 2011-02-08T23:43:08Z At Loewe, British designer Stuart Vevers mixed the retro glamour of long leather gloves, fox fur and flecked veils with the industrial chic of chains and jagged cuts. Celebrities? So last season, say Paris fashionistas 2010-03-08T17:00:00Z McCarthy, 41, can be seen in her strapless wedding gown and veil greeting the "Blue Bloods" actor in photos obtained by ABC News. She's got the right stuff: Jenny McCarthy, Donnie Wahlberg get married 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The Bridal Morn ... an angel sculpture is adorned with a wedding veil and bouquet. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z Heba, enveloped in a long black abaya robe and full face veil, arrived for her party in a U.N. car, greeted by the crowd like a movie star. Gaza town Beit Hanoun sweeps rubble, tries to return to daily life 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z And the veil was lifted: I went back and forth between memories of our 29 years together and flirty text messages from Match and Bumble. Please Go Shelter in Another Place 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Matthew Goode's Stanley is superb as the enterprising music hack from Musical Express, a thinly veiled version of jazz-era Melody Maker. Dancing on the Edge: episode one 2013-02-04T22:30:01Z Big Break A 2013 graduate of Central Saint Martins, Ms. Beydoun designed a final thesis collection that consisted of veils and custom Nike sneakers encased in sandals. Super Yaya’s Rym Beydoun Sees the Future of Fashion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z “In particular to a return to the cathedral veil,” she said. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The veil is raised at the corners to disclose a glass-walled lobby, where biomorphic dark-grey surfaces rise and spread overhead like a surreal forest canopy. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z With its scenes of brave men and women storming the Tuileries, it was a thinly veiled allegory of the Russian Revolution. Mikhailovsky Ballet to Make U.S. Debut at Lincoln Center 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z She said the delay in construction, which began in 2012, was because of one of the building’s most distinctive features: a honeycomb-style concrete-and-steel structure, known as the veil, that wraps around the museum. The Broad Museum in Los Angeles Delays Opening Until 2015 2014-02-09T08:01:02Z In a deceptively sturdy performance, Ms. Hedwall presents Anne without any misty veils of sentimentality. Review: At Hartford Stage, Expectations of Love and the Weight of Memory in ‘An Opening in Time’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “Dogfishing” is not exactly a lie — the person did take a photo with that dog — but to some daters, it feels like a veiled form of deception. Analysis | Dogfishing: When online daters pose with adorable pets that aren’t theirs 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It was a dense, impervious, liquid veil, shutting out all sight of sea and sky. Review | William Clark Russell’s ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor’ is a transporting nautical adventure 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z It's an interactive update of the anti-lynching cartography made 100 years ago – although a full reconstruction of lynching terror remains impossible because of incomplete data and the veil of silence that persists around these murders. How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z The close-up photo showed about a square inch of her wedding veil — alas, not even enough material to determine if it was lace or tulle. Field Notes: ?Twihards? Ask, What Will Bella?s Wedding Dress Look Like?- Field 2011-11-12T00:00:01Z I really didn't want it to be a thinly veiled memoir and navel-gazing effort. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Robb wore a sleeveless white gown with a long veil. When She Hears a Crying Bride, ‘It’s All Over’ 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Art is often likened to a screen, or veil, or filter, through which we see the world differently. Review | America picked artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale — and he’s everything America is not 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Nor does an added tableau, loosely based on the dramatist's afterword, in which Eliza, peering through a veil as voluminous as a mosquito net, marries Freddy. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z In one image, taken in Catania, Sicily, a Senegalese man named Madia looks skeptically toward the lens, tilting his head under a veil of red mesh. One Year Photographing the Lives of Migrants 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z His talks were full of personal asides, jokes and barely veiled references to prominent figures both within and outside the field. Milton Babbitt obituary 2011-01-30T18:29:19Z "The miracles that led to overturning the evil decree were all veiled in the natural order and hidden in human activity," he told Fox News Digital via an email message. Why Purim is important in 2022 as the Russia-Ukraine war rages 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z I can't, for the life of me, remember if my wife wore a veil when we got married. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Goat lifts the veil and shows that, while the fraternity movie itself may have evolved, activities at real-life fraternities have only gotten worse. Sex, booze and stupidity: fratboys on film, from Animal House to Goat 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z So now it's 'empowering' for women to forego a veil saying it has bad associations with brides who are supposed to be 'virginal', and/or with bridges being considered 'objects'. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z As one train may hide another, our trysts veiled an eagerness to explore a darker landscape. Modern Love: My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship 2014-04-24T19:30:01Z There’s a moment in the final act where we see Odette lift an arm across her face; here it seemed to be the lowering of a veil, a mournful goodbye to an idea of happiness. A gorgeous, gliding ‘Swan Lake’ at PNB 2013-04-15T21:42:06Z Maybe there’s a reason to maintaining an enigmatic veil around a story, or maybe it’s all for nothing. Tardy to the "Russian Doll" party? Welcome, sweet birthday babies! 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z That is how important a veil is to me. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z And while some of the flashbacks are suitably glamorous, others expose the raw horror that Jackie’s veil conceals and announces. ‘Jackie’: Under the Widow’s Weeds, a Myth Marketer 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Swift, who studiously avoids confrontation while writing veiled riddles about her ex-boyfriends and frenemies into her songs, didn’t stand a chance. The New Celebrity Diet: Cyberbullying 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z But “Trinity” is pockmarked with veiled, personal issues. 'Trinity River Plays': Regina Taylor at her best when stuck in muddy truth 2011-01-25T02:38:49Z Her innovative, multi-paneled works boldly mine the insular brotherhood of Abakuá through a distinctly feminist lens and offer veiled commentary on contemporary Cuban politics and culture. The late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's mysterious world unfurls at the Fowler Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z A motley crowd of children, veiled ladies and young men in jeans chant defiantly in the summer sun at the soldiers clad in olive drab and facing them with rifles. Drama meets daily life in Palestinian film 2012-07-23T11:16:24Z But by the movie's end, you realize that his desperation veils a rush of longing. Pattinson Packs a Punch In Good Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Fellow journalists like myself can sympathize with the author’s struggles to penetrate the group’s iron veil. How the N.R.A. Became ‘the Most Feared Lobbying Force in America’ 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, he created a series of paintings that featured photographs mounted on wood panels veiled in gauzy layers of wax. Of the 63 people killed during '92 riots, 23 deaths remain unsolved — artist Jeff Beall is mapping where they fell 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z So is seeing it happen, and the expressive veil of bravery and shock the actress playing Lila conveys with uncanny simplicity. Smart Watch: “My Brilliant Friend” and “Escape at Dannemora” mark the start of awards (ba... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Dave annoys Howard by peppering him with questions about his veiled past, but Momo is the one who needs to know those answers. ‘Good Enemy’ Review: Finding Second Chances 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z And in our current moment, it has taken on an even more perverse valence — as a veil thrown over a deadly pandemic. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Suctioning brains and snacking on innards, the monsters in “The Lair” appear motivated solely by hunger, any higher purpose remaining stubbornly veiled. ‘The Lair’ Review: Going Underground 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Working through her father’s wartime trauma helped her find her place in a legacy that was “not so much forgotten as veiled in silence.” A Box of Secrets Led to the Story of Her Father’s Painful Wartime Past 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z But lo and behold, several days later, townspeople found the veil miraculously unharmed. Chartres Cathedral: The age of faith in stone and stained glass 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The role clicked for Acloque on a personal level during a scene in which his character encounters two veiled women living alone because their husband had been taken away for questioning by the colonial authorities. In ‘Little Birds,’ Anaïs Nin Erotica Gets a Revolutionary New Context 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z It was hard to believe that Mr. Tisci believed in this veiling as a proposition for modern dress. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z Wilson rips off the veil, rendering those starkly as “slave.” Review | The first English translation of ‘The Odyssey’ by a woman was worth the wait 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Church bells rang as a solemn procession of women dressed in black and veiled, carrying candles, opened the show. Plus-sized models and 1990s 'supers' walk for Dolce & Gabbana in Milan 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z It was “Tokyo Dolls” — hence the veiled faces and toxic colored wigs that are presumably the latest of the ever-changing cult fashions for the Harajuku crowd. Special Report: Fashion: Stripes and Cuffs 2010-10-03T17:04:00Z The resulting story by Ms. Bank, in which her character Jane follows and then discards a thinly veiled version of “The Rules,” raised the profiles of both the fledgling Zoetrope and the author. Melissa Bank, Author Whose ‘Girls’ Guide’ Was a Phenomenon, Dies at 61 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z "All the social and hormonal turbulence that the later Potter volumes had to veil in the euphemisms of fantasy appear in plain sight here." Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z She might stand as still as a statue and then wilt gradually, with her long black mane veiling her face, or arch backward, grasping at strands of hair with slender fingers. Eiko: A Dancer’s Urgent Body in a Sacred Space 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s an approach makeup artists have used for years to create a “natural” look: All of the color goes on first, and the foundation acts as a veil to diffuse it. Contouring Is Back. It’s Not What You Remember. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z This is not Alinejad’s goal, and she tries mightily to articulate the difference, the possibility, of opposing both those who enforce the veil and those who wish to ban it. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z In Ms. Al-Ani’s own photographs, she rejects another fiction, that of the “veiled” landscape seen in Orientalist depictions of Middle Eastern deserts as empty, blank, lifeless, unoccupied. Art Review: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-12-26T22:22:28Z As throughout the album, his touch is mistily veiled one moment, glinting copper the next. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z They spend long nights holed up in their apartments, bidding for the elusive things on eBay and losing every time to rivals veiled behind cryptic monikers. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z There can be a thin line between obsession and aggression, and, under the Internet's veil of anonymity, particularly rabid fans can sometimes turn into petulant, pedantic bullies. Comic-Con, Hollywood and the nature of modern fandom 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In a political season marked by invective, mistrust of motive, veiled threats, and even the ironizing of military sacrifice, the spirit of Homer’s railing Greek seems to walk abroad in the land. Trump, Troilus, and Cressida 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The detective ended the conversation with a veiled threat to personally visit the gallery. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z Giorgio Armani explained that the veils were used to convey mystery and that his idea of a typical evening was “not too important but still precious.. like an elegant cocktail”. Colors can chase away the blues, says Giorgio Armani 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z "I was really trying to take off that scab, or that veil, or whatever it is off the `50s," she says. At home with Toni Morrison 2012-05-07T14:13:08Z That developed an appetite for areas of human experience over which TV – comedy in particular – had hitherto drawn a veil. From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z "These instruments will take us in that direction, will take the veil off, I hope, for much of the American public." SD museum adds Elvis' guitar to vast collection 2013-04-25T16:14:15Z One recurring joke revolves around “Defamation,” a thinly veiled “Scandal” spoof that black Winchester students gather to watch on a weekly basis. Review | Netflix’s ‘Dear White People’ is even better than the movie 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “The band convinced me that it was worth raising the veil a little bit,” she says. | More Fearless Storytelling from Sharon Van Etten 2014-04-29T18:00:41Z “The aerial shot was, of course, meant as a veiled threat: either invite us to your party, or we’ll crash it.” The National Enquirer’s tactics have been revealed. But they’re not new. 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z There were also hourglass-shaped trench coats in navy pinstripes, with a swishy fringe in lieu of epaulets, shrunken bowler hats hung with a bride's veil, and beaded jumpsuits accessorized with knee-length ropes of pearls. Thom Browne bends the genders with 'Cabaret' show 2011-06-27T17:14:31Z There were head braces with mantilla-like veils suspended over the face, and stuffed constructions that looked like misshapen airplane pillows around the neck and waist. Velvet Ropes, Inclusion and Kanye West in Paris 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z The Los Angeles Times declared that he is “as venerated as any pop diva” by the “hipsters in West Hollywood,” which seems to be a thinly veiled reference to his large gay fan base. Orville Peck, a Masked Gay Country Star, Rides Into Brooklyn 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z In a life-drawing class taking place in a classroom away from the museum’s galleries, the teacher’s stream of chatter seems like a nervous tic of embarrassment, a verbal veil to conceal the models’ nakedness. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z White veil over brown, shoulder-length hair … the groom's familiar stride … Oh my God. My first marriage was an illusion. My second, real magic 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z One woman turns away from the camera, her face obscured by a veil. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Sapone wore the same lace wedding dress and matching veil that her mother had worn on her wedding day 40 years earlier. Brought Together by a ‘Team Effort’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Taken from the South African artist’s latest series, “Not So Funny Now,” the portraits glower at the viewer through veils of drips, scratches and smears. In the galleries: Step right up and see the sideshow 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z If you want to make bold changes in style, timbre or attitude, your best bet is to express your dissent through veiled gestures and soft tweaks. With show at Verizon, country artist Eric Church shows he’s an outsider no longer 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Especially in Palm Beach, Florida, where great walls of greenery veil, enhance, and protect some of the world’s most extravagant homes. Tour architectural hedges with Lee F. Mindel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z And literature always has a gap, a veil between it and the real world. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Women with arms outstretched like branches, the wind fluttering through the drapes of their veils, draw allegorical threads to tales of woodland nymphs in rapturous dance. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Students and alumni crowded around the veiled statue at noon Saturday as a contingent of the marching band and cheerleaders kicked off the celebration. The return of Myrna Loy (in bronze) 2010-04-12T16:55:00Z It has to be like that, and it should be like that . . . and then I took real people and put them behind that veil, into this closed world. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z He pounds on the glass wall of the chapel, screaming her name, and she runs off with him in her bridal veil, straight to the bus. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z "It would have stayed as a hobby and I would have worked on it on a personal level only," he said, showing his sketch book filled with drawings of women in veils. Lebanese fashion school scouts talent in refugee camps, orphanages 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But what sets this bride apart from her mother’s generation is a ringing conviction that wearing a veil is less often a matter of custom than it is one of personal choice. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The veil, an inevitable symbol for female artists from post-1979 Iran, appears in many forms and contexts. Review | In the galleries: A D.C.-Madrid ‘conversation’ between artists, two shows infused with color and light, and Persian perspectives 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Thanks to legions of devoted viewers and recappers, rare is the callback or veiled reference that goes unnoticed. Hidden Breaking Bad: The Stuff You May Have Missed 2013-09-24T17:53:26Z However, the entire wedding was documented live on the shelter’s Facebook page, which showed Sassy and Spero wore their best formal harnesses with a trendy tie, pocket square, ribbon, veil and floral collars. Animal shelter hosts dog wedding in South Carolina for charitable cause 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z She completed her look with a cathedral length Swarovski crystal veil and a detachable train for a touch of drama. Real Wedding-Day Looks From Our Couples 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Morsels of it fleck a grilled stone-fruit salad of peaches, plums and nectarines simply dressed with basil vinaigrette under a veil of goat cheese. Hunger in Fremont fills a larger space with lots of satisfaction 2012-08-09T20:22:05Z The style here is in the tradition of the Japanese bunraku: the puppeteer-actors are shrouded in black clothing, with dark veils over their faces, and almost invisible against the dark background. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z If it also addressed American race relations, albeit in a veiled way, so much the better. Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z Soon, though, the veil is lifted, and what follows is an older generation's more complicated view on younger people -- by turns energized, jealous, fascinated and resentful -- and the techno-fueled lives they lead. Toronto Film Festival: Ben Stiller minds the (generation) gap 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z “Why, with so much talent out there, with so many compelling restaurants to cover, would you review the one veiled in controversy?” she wrote. James Beard Awards Apply a New Yardstick: Good Behavior 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Guinness, a friend of Mr. McQueen’s, was dressed in mourning, with a black veil over her face. Cathy Horyn?s Key Fashion Moments of 2010 2010-12-31T04:26:10Z My hope might be that this book will help open the conversation about suicide and to remove this veil of shame. Q&A: Twenty Years Later, Trying to Unravel a Suicide 2011-02-17T10:15:00Z But the back view reveals a surprising addition: a veil and train scattered with multi-coloured doodles drawn by Jolie and Pitt’s six children. Angelina Jolie's wedding dress designed by Atelier Versace – and her children 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The drawing was a barely veiled swipe at the newspapers’ majority owner, a little-known hedge fund called Alden Global Capital. As a secretive hedge fund guts its newspapers, journalists are fighting back 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Quite a bit of the detail in “The Social Network” and “Wall Street” is drawn from reality, from the names in Mr. Fincher’s movie to the thinly veiled events in Mr. Stone’s. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z Good sex, yes, is full of tacit and explicit agreements, the central one being sex itself — the veil that can be drawn over partners, the temporary worlds built together, the setting of the stage. ‘Kink’ Is Not a Book About Sex. It’s a Book About, Well, Kink. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The fall-winter 2018/19 collection also intertwined all of the fashion house’s iconic traits such as black lace, tight-fitting black dresses, veils, references to Italy’s southern traditions and costumes as well as flowers. Dolce & Gabbana opens the gates of fashion heaven in Milan show 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z The idea that Picasso's variations on Velázquez's Las Meninas might contain veiled references to Franco, and to Franco's grooming of Prince Juan Carlos in order to reinstate the monarchy, is unconvincing. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z On he came dressed as Olivia – in flat black senora hair, daft veil and a jet mourning dress which trailed on the floor behind him. Stage reader review roundup: your take on Damned by Despair and This House 2012-10-12T15:11:55Z Danielle Luokkanen, a senior studio art major who is white and helped install some of the pieces while working at the Hunt Gallery, described the show as a series of “thinly veiled microaggressions.” A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Her poem “Stop Throwing My Country to the Wind” offers a thinly veiled rebuke to the country’s leaders. Simin Behbahani, poet and 'Lioness of Iran,' dies at 87 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Friedell wore a backless white jumpsuit that she accessorized with a veil made by the groom, who took up sewing during the pandemic. A Heart So Full, Her Chipped Teeth Were an Afterthought 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In one duet, a woman allows her long black hair to spray over her partner’s face like a veil. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z The talk, he said, “was thinly veiled as something else, but it was really clearly a public attack on us to anybody who wanted to listen”. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Not many series puncture the veil of emotional separation between viewer and screen with such unexpected precision. Love will tear us apart: Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” is brilliant but not for the emotionally tender 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Fosse asked Reinking to audition for the thinly veiled role of herself. Ann Reinking on Her Life as Bob Fosse’s Muse, Lover, and Friend 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Starting about a year and a half ago, he thought, “Cabaret is about being real, and I’ve got to see what it’s like stripping off the veil.” Charles Busch’s New Phase Isn’t Drag. It’s Green Paisley. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z His narrator, a thinly veiled stand-in for the author, is an expatriate writer in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The largest screen follows a veiled woman through the alleys of a city neighborhood, presumably in Accra. ‘Harmattan Tales’ looks at what it means to be a woman in the African Muslim world 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z In this book he details his most famous political concepts: the 'original position', the veil of ignorance and, of course, his two principles of justice: the liberty principle and the difference principle. A Theory of Justice by John Rawls - review 2011-08-27T08:00:00Z But it’s the opposite of a rousing agitprop song; its protest is veiled in both sound and message. The Playlist: Arcade Fire and Gorillaz Return, With Money and Power on Their Minds 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z This being a dance theatre, and this being Salome, a modicum of terpsichorean movement and a few veils, on or off, would have perked things up. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z The Home Minister has been issuing veiled threats to those who "erroneously offer intellectual and material support to the Maoists." Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Five 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z She vividly remembers saving up to pay installments for the first one — a nude in a white veil — in the mid-80s, when her business started to turn a profit. Inside Betsey Johnson’s Malibu Dream House 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Remember the sweet little veiled number Diana wore as part of her coral-colored going-away outfit, after another royal wedding many years ago? Princess-to-be Kate Middleton is tops when it comes to toppers 2011-04-15T23:45:42Z Two actresses, in sparkling black veils and masks, link arms to become the cauldron, while the other three dance and chant around them. ‘Witches Vanish’ is an uneven brew about an important topic 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z In the midst of it is Ai himself, helping pull people onto the shore or comforting a veiled woman who breaks down on camera. Ad-hoc iPhone shots inspired refugee epic, Chinese artist says 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Following the Filipino custom, the two were draped with a veil and had a rope tied in a figure-eight pattern placed on their heads. A Heart So Full, Her Chipped Teeth Were an Afterthought 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z One in which a wealthy white woman on her way out of yoga endorsed, via thinly veiled racism, about the rapid transformation of her country which immigration had wrought. Stuff white people like: Yoga, tacos and pretending the white supremacy that fuels cultural appropriation doesn’t exist 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z But some veiled Muslim women view the trend as a potential avenue toward a more aware and empathic understanding of the hijab. Balaclavas Are Trendy, but for Some Muslim Women It’s More Complicated 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z He proposed a giant screen, dubbed a tapestry, along the south edge, effectively veiling the Education Department. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The combination created a veiled effect that seemed from another dimension - or perhaps, another planet. Colors in, and black out, on Milan runway 2012-09-23T22:46:03Z In her staged series, Like Everyday, Ghadirian mischievously places kitchen utensils over the faces of veiled women, playing with both language – "doormat", "hatchet-face" – and representation. New photography from the Middle East comes to London 2012-06-27T16:28:08Z During Mass, just a wisp of hair was allowed to seen from underneath the veil. The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z There is a literal veil — a big piece of silk tossed like a parachute or the handkerchief of a giant magician. Review: Christopher Wheeldon Creates a Memorable Realm 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “Bande de Filles”, for example, features not a single veiled girl, nor any reference to religion. Chronicles of the years of fire 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Calling Ms. Taylor-Joy — who wore leopard print gloves and a veiled pillbox hat — to the stage, the irrepressible Ms. Delevingne described hers as “the face that launched a thousand … shipments of chess sets.” Fashion’s Oscars Return, After a Year That Reshaped the Industry 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z As the police chief, Jeffrey Wright, who’s almost always too good for the movies he’s in and the roles he plays, lets intelligence peek through the veil of his character’s motivations. The Mystery of Broken City: Who Killed the New York Crime Drama? 2013-01-18T15:23:42Z It often seemed that for all her facility, Ms. Peck, 29, was dancing behind a veil. Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The questions are often barely veiled insults, delivered in a mirthless deadpan that’s somewhere between stupidity and sociopathy — the exact opposite of the breezy sycophancy that passes for most late-night banter. How ‘Between Two Ferns’ went from hilariously awkward web series to hilariously awkward Netflix movie 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Several employees took to their own social-media feeds to vent barely veiled frustration. These are complicated times for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Then government officials swoop in with solemn gratitude or veiled warnings to obey the law. When Superheroes Battle Evil, Why Does Washington Always Lose? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z It seemed perhaps a veiled reference to the well compensated Hollywood star’s own previous tax woes. Stop talking, Rob Lowe: Cam Newton doesn’t have to take “classy” lessons from you 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z China's social injustices, human rights abuses and imperial aspirations are, it's suggested, being discreetly veiled from view. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z We see in the film that they put on the veil, and then there is a process. "Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z So the “transition,” as it was called, was underwritten by an unspoken pact in which Franco’s opponents agreed to draw a veil of forgetfulness over his reign. Reckoning With the Wounds Still Left by the Spanish Civil War 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z We are amid the sparks, climbing the rungs, into a land of veils and valence. A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z And so these New Leipzig School artists, as they often do, pose the old, the new, the supernatural and the modern in productive, ambivalent, veiling tension. Review: Bayreuth’s First American Director Arrives With ‘Lohengrin’ 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z A central scene of “Hagoromo” occurs in sustained silence, as Jock Soto, playing a fisherman, toys with a mysterious veil that he has found on a remote island. Review: ‘Hagoromo’ Offers More Than Dance at BAM Harvey Theater 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Partygoers were also encouraged to come in costume, and many did, donning colorful robes, veils and skulls. Perspective | Till death do us part: A voodoo-themed wedding celebration at Congressional Cemetery 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “I’m not going to wear a veil,” she says. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Morello Hears Wedding Bells 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Cornelia talks a great deal in “Child’s Pose,” a film in which every conversation reverberates with hidden meanings, veiled threats and the lingering history of a nation that’s traded one master for another. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z Many writers, including myself, have argued that creationism is neither religion nor science, but rather a thinly veiled political doctrine. Why creationists can’t be scientists 2014-02-20T20:16:00Z Nothing quite like a ghost in a veil. The year's best villains (so far) 2012-05-31T18:14:05Z The rest of the time, her playing was a tantalizing dance of colors and textures veiling the riches beneath. Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan Balance Power and Nuance at Zankel Hall 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The ensuing platonic romance between east and west culminates in the girl lifting her veil to look the idealist deep in the eyes. Arabic dress and Iranian accents ? Hollywood's take on Afghan women 2011-02-12T10:59:00Z A look inside her mind reveals the force of danger thinly veiled behind the romantic glow of youth. The Loneliness, and Danger, of Being a Young Woman in a New City 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “We didn’t want the exhibition to be dark, veiled and impenetrable, like stereotypes of Muslim culture,” she said. Mediating Faith and Style: Museums Awake to Muslim Fashions 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z He sees Konwicki’s writing as veiled excuses for Konwicki’s “collaboration” in a compromised Poland that was unable to throw off Russian domination in the aftermath of the Second World War. Tadeusz Konwicki: A Polish Writer and the Scars of the Past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Hattersley's judgements . . . are good and dispassionate throughout, and the veil is not so much lifted as ripped from his private life. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z I remember at the time that it wasn't so much the veiled utilitarianism in this statement that chilled, more the crass misapprehension of the value and function of the whole of the subsidised sector. Share your theatre memories of 2010 2010-12-29T09:43:57Z I think I'll go with some of the girls from the office and we can hide behind the spurious veil of it being a research trip. Sex and the sequel 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z Some housed one- or two-person shows: a flamenco dancer and her accompanist; a woman in a white veil playing a saw. Going Mausoleum Hopping in Brooklyn 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Miraculously, I haven’t managed to kill his love of reading with my thinly veiled fatigue for the live performances. Motherlode Blog: I’m Tired of Reading Out Loud to My Son, O.K.? 2013-07-22T13:55:44Z Lindsay Short, a senior accessories buyer for David’s Bridal in Conshohocken, Pa., said she is seeing an uptick in brides who wear veils. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z His Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report” is, after all, a straight-faced and deeply pointed send-up of the narcissism of talk shows, with all their thinly veiled ratings courtship and personal-brand worship. Will Colbert’s truthiness survive the ‘Late Show’ switch? 2014-04-11T21:42:53Z Since his death, the veil has been lifted further by Antonia Fraser's Must You Go?, an intimate portrait of a marriage which also offers occasional insights into his plays. Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Donmar 2011-04-01T10:54:25Z It is, in essence, a proclamation of the brand’s barely veiled ambition: that the world, or at least Paris, revolve around this sun. Will Smith Revives the ‘Fresh Prince’ at Paris Fashion Party 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Authorities said the full-faced veil is a security risk because it inhibit identification. Covered on the catwalk: modest fashion struts its stuff in Paris 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z A quarter of the Ring material did not sell, especially images of veiled mourners and gravestones sewn in memory of deceased relatives. ArtsBeat: Schoolgirl's Needlework Sampler Sells for $1.07 Million 2012-01-23T19:22:44Z The veiled women workers believe they are making garb for American soldiers in Iraq or straightjackets for psychiatric hospitals. Manifesta 9 – review 2012-08-28T12:59:00Z It’s not just the behind the veil thing. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z But Wordsworth wrote without the veil of fiction, and what interested Byron, and what interests Roth, is the way you can use that veil. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z One photo series is his famous “Kesh Angels,” in which women in gowns and face veils pose on motorbikes. Hassan Hajjaj Turns Moroccan Clichés Into London Cool 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And those right places capitalize on their ability to shape our minds with slippery, imperious moves that are only slightly more veiled than the company store. Thirsty in West Virginia 2014-01-19T00:00:00Z People wore black shrouds, veils, and velvet and held black flowers, parasols, and miniature coffins. A Jazz Funeral for the American Presidency 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z I was so delighted that my daughter was offered her step-grandmother's veil that had first been worn by her mother in the early 1900's. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Designed to create the impression of being seamless, the dress was teamed with a Stephen Jones veil, a Maidenhair Fern tiara, and Manolo Blahnik ivory satin shoes. Pippa Middleton marries James Matthews 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Any woman who doesn't understand the historical import of veils and who refuses to recognize their negative role in our culture harms her gender with her stupidity. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Mara's wearing a green, tea-length dress, no veil, casual flowers, Paul will wear a suit, there will be no groomsman or bridesmaids, the reception is at a restaurant with only recorded music and so on. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Groom’s mother bridles at wedding plans 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z They also want civil servants, teachers, students at schools and universities, judges and witnesses in court to be banned from wearing the full veil. German conservatives call for partial ban on face veil 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Bulgaria's parliament on Friday banned the wearing of face veils in public in a move which supporters said would boost security in the wake of Islamist militant attacks in Europe. Bulgaria bans full-face veils in public places 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z After the ceremony, traditional Scottish bagpipe music was played as the newlyweds, the bride wearing an ivory floor-length dress and a full-length veil, emerged from the church to loud cheers from the crowd outside. UK queen's granddaughter Zara weds in Scotland 2011-07-30T16:21:51Z On the one hand, no matter how autobiographical a novel was, I could always hide behind the veil of fiction and say I made something up. “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z There are thinly veiled tensions and lusts, as there always are when friends gather for dinner on a stage or in a movie. Review: In ‘Hunter Gatherers,’ a Couples’ Dinner Grows Increasingly Bizarre 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z When you keep your movie under a thick veil, as Abrams likes to do, audiences can wind up confused and wary. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z Gaskell's own passport, sewing boxes, silver teapot, ivory brooch and wedding veil are among her items on show. Doors open to Cranford author's home 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Ward said she wondered how writing about her community without the veil of fiction would affect her family, and the families of the young men. Past Lingers in Present, and the Sorrows Go On 2013-09-11T20:11:51Z For his part, Pachirat ends his brave journey unconvinced that, unto itself, removing the veil will be enough to make us a more thoughtful — if not moral — society. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Farrow pierced this legal and quasi-espionage veil to land a devastating story about Weinstein, published by the New Yorker exactly two years ago Thursday. Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break some of the biggest stories of the #MeToo era 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Not every proposal ends with a raised veil and a kiss. Books of Style: Holiday Reading, Some Homework Required 2012-12-12T23:23:53Z But every so often a hole was pierced in the veil of Mr. Sturr’s relentless optimism: a blank, distant look in his eyes as one of the others onstage was doing the heavy lifting. Music Review: Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-10-25T22:10:52Z The veil of sentiment must be lifted and aid organisations exposed to criticism and audit. War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman 2010-05-07T23:11:00Z Beyond, a long marble bar is veiled in a white trellis. Ottoman Taverna review: Out of the flames comes a meaty taste of Turkey 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z This was transparently a political ad, not an advertisement for an automobile company, and the only thing that’s “thinly veiled” is the socialist nationalism that is found in all of Obama’s speeches. Chrysler's Super Bowl Ad: Was There A Flag on the Play? 2012-02-06T16:51:20Z He wanted to show me a large white farmhouse situated behind a gate and a veil of trees. Why Name Your Book After Hitler's? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z |
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