Arbuthnot told Swift that Caroline had enjoyed his Gulliver's Travels, particularly the tale of the crown prince who wore one high-heel and one low-heel in a country where the King and his party wore low heels, and the opposition wore high ones: a barely veiled reference to the political leanings of the Prince of Wales.

This barely veiled attempt to end Dutch sovereignty ended in war.

One song, " The Receipt ," was fairly straightforward, according to City Pages: it " can be taken as a barely veiled attack on Mould's old Husker Dü-mate Grant Hart.

" Quatermass, for instance, often seemed to have an unhealthy preoccupation with blackness, a barely veiled commentary on racial change in Britain.

In a barely accompanied recitative that recalls the very opening of the work, the Angel warns him that the experience will be almost unbearable, and in veiled terms describes the stigmata of St. Francis.

Another possible interpretation is that the Toynbee reference comes from the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's short story " The Toynbee Convector ", which alludes to Toynbee's idea that in order to survive, humankind must always rush to meet the future, i. e., believe in a better world, and must always aim far beyond what is practically possible, in order to reach something barely within reach.

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

While I was doing it, I sensed, as I mentioned before, the deep profundity of scriptural exposition ; and, raising myself from illness by the strength I received, I brought this work to a close – though just barely – in ten years.

He circulated copies of the historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ' work, which was barely read at the time, and so we perhaps have him to thank for the partial survival of Tacitus ' work ; however, modern historiography rejects his claimed descent from the historian as forgery.

The large numbers of skilled and unskilled people looking for work kept wages down to a barely subsistence level.

Although the film does show that Lawrence could speak and read Arabic, could quote the Quran, and was reasonably knowledgeable about the region, it barely mentions his archaeological travels from 1911 to 1914 in Syria and Arabia, and ignores his espionage work, including a pre-war topographical survey of the Sinai Peninsula and his attempts to negotiate the release of British prisoners at Kut in Mesopotamia in 1916.

In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called the film a " romantic comedy with barely a laugh or a spark, and with a pace that makes it feel longer than Mr. Kasdan's previous work, Wyatt Earp.

These explorations were parallel to Coleman's in many respects but Harriott's work was barely known outside of England.

In May 1745, Le Breton announced the work as available for sale, but to his dismay, Mills had not done the work he was commissioned to do ; in fact, he could barely read and write French and did not even own a copy of Cyclopaedia.

Vance, however, declined for a number of reasons, the biggest factor being that she felt she and Frawley could barely work together on the ensemble show they were doing at the time, so it would be much less likely the two could work together on their own series.

At barely fifteen, he came forth to do a man's work by restoring his kingdom to order.

DeCruz kills Brooks by running him over with the getaway truck, but then finds that the brakes no longer work and barely escapes before the vehicle crashes into a ravine.

Producer Robinson was also praised for his work on the album ; Uncut noted, " The barely relenting, tumbling noise attack marshalled by alternative metal uber-producer Ross Robinson is expert.

Before landing the role of Xander, Brendon had hit " rock bottom ": his girlfriend had left him, he was working as a waiter and could barely afford his rent, and had almost given up on getting good work.

He barely finished his schooling before seeking theatre work, first appearing on stage in 1949.

With the exception of one harsh initial review predicting that it would barely work – which was rebuffed by Sullivan, it was apparently well received and Sullivan ’ s description appeared in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal along with an introduction praising American steam engine and boat refinements.

s barely old enough to drink, and some out of work Rogues.

Show business excess was a common theme of the band's early work, with Waybill sometimes assuming the onstage persona of " Quay Lewd " ( a pun on Quaalude ), a drunk, drugged out, barely coherent lead singer, wearing flashing glasses and stilt-like tall platform shoes.

The Audions sometimes worked extremely well ; at other times they would barely work at all.

While there, he found not only his relatives, but became acquainted with the work of a number of major poets whose work was barely known in the United States, among them Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Antonio Machado, Gunnar Ekelof, Georg Trakl, Rumi, Hafez, Kabir, Mirabai, and Harry Martinson.

He stayed in this post for barely three months, with no records of his work there surviving, before being transferred against his will to the Court of King's Bench on 3 May to replace Simon Le Blanc.

My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was, a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffycolored fedora.

It was barely possible that his brother was right.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

It was a narrow road, barely wide enough for two cars to pass.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

A heart attack when she was barely 20 put an end to the 10-hour daily practicing.

Palmer's 281 for the four rounds at Augusta was a comfortable four strokes ahead of the next closest pro, but it was barely good enough for a second-place tie with Coe.

On one occasion he was separated from Ursicinus and took refuge in Amida during the siege of the city, which was then attacked by the Sassanid king Shapur II ; he barely escaped with his life.

Anne was barely a year old when her mother became ill of what is believed to have been uterine cancer.

Despite selling off all of those farms that were at Ballynally, " there was barely enough to keep up New Park and pay for the blasted summer holiday " ( i. e., at New Park ).

The team was back in the airport terminal barely ten minutes when the call to reconvene on the plane came, and a number of passengers began to feel nervous.

For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.

The defeat at Marathon barely touched the vast resources of the Persian empire, yet for the Greeks it was an enormously significant victory.

From the documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation, a possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched upon by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and found to be low on charge, but ordered back into the plane without a recharge by the pilot while in San Juan.

While agriculture had recovered substantially, the heavy industrial sector was still in recession, and had barely recovered from the pre-war levels.

The conflict was both technical and social: the younger programmers came from an era where centralized power was highly suspect, and personal computing was just barely on the horizon.