Cotten construed this as a veiled effort by Parkhouse to help Dallas and other large cities get money which Cotten felt could better be spent providing water for rural Texas.

Contemporaries frequently referred to them as the al-mulathimun (" the veiled ones ", from litham, Arabic for " veil ").

The philosophes of the Enlightenment used criticism of myth as a vehicle for veiled criticisms of the Bible and the church.

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism ( or gentle satire ), as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, prizes in " science education " to the Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal Affair.

These seven years seemed to Jacob " but a few days, for the love he had for her ", but when they were complete and he asked for his wife, Laban deceived Jacob by switching Rachel's older sister, Leah, as the veiled bride.

" The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, in Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.

Women should put aside their gold and precious stones as ornaments ( De cultu, v-vi ), and virgins should conform to the law of St. Paul for women and keep themselves strictly veiled ( De virginibus velandis ).

It is possible, for example, to regard them as a veiled criticism by Swift of the British Empire's treatment of non-whites as lesser humans, and it is similarly possible to regard Gulliver's preference ( and immediate division of Houyhnhnms into color-based hierarchies ) as absurd and the sign of his self-deception.

It looks for a transcendence of the opposites entailing a leap of the imagination to a higher level, which ( 1 ) provides justification for rejecting both alternatives as false and / or ( 2 ) helps elucidate a real but previously veiled integral relationship between apparent opposites that have been kept apart and regarded as distinct.

In the Roman Rite, during the " Gloria in Excelsis Deo " the organ and bells are used in the liturgy for the first time in 2 days, and the statues, which have been veiled during Passiontide ( at least in the Roman Rite through the 1962 version ), are unveiled.

In her final address as vicereine, at Christmas, 1989, some of Sauvé's words were perceived as veiled warning about the failure of the Meech Lake Accord and she was criticised for this suspected breach of neutrality.

# As the sun is hidden by clouds produced by the solar rays but surely, the character of the day is not hidden by those modified dense collection of clouds, so the Self, though pure, ( or undefiled ) is veiled for a long time by ignorance.

From the fragments it appears that for the first part of the tragedy the grieving Niobe sits veiled and silent.

His letters to Walter Berry printed by the Black Sun Press have long been celebrated for their lightly veiled eroticism.

Thence, however, he continued to govern his diocese, while he found leisure for the preparation of two of the most important of his contributions to dogmatic and polemical theology: the De synodis or De fide Orientalium, an epistle addressed in 358 to the Semi-Arian bishops in Gaul, Germany and Britain, expounding the true views ( sometimes veiled in ambiguous words ) of the Eastern bishops on the Nicene controversy ; and the De trinitate libri XII, composed in 359 and 360, in which, for the first time, a successful attempt was made to express in Latin the theological subtleties elaborated in the original Greek.

Due to thinly veiled homoerotic undertones plus lots of skin and lots of sweat ( but apparently not enough clothing, save that worn by the fully clothed members of Queen themselves ), it was deemed unsuitable for a television audience at the time.

He intended them solely for amateur matches, a thinly veiled reference to bouts of fisticuffs between gentlemen.

Festus and other ancient authors explain Curiatius by the aetiological legend of the Tigillum, the expiation undergone by P. Horatius when victorious over the Alban Curiatii, for the murder of his own sister, by walking under a beam with his head veiled.

Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily ; possibly taking this as a veiled threat of potential censorship, publishers developed the Comics Code Authority to censor their own content.

In 1994, he tried to get a license for a gay brothel in a thinly veiled attempt to galvanize opposition against all brothels.

Hospital Music included thinly veiled allusions to his divorce (" I Am Not Safer Than a Bank " and " She's in It for the Money ") as well as darker subjects, such as Good's close friend Rod Bruno ( who appears on guitar, bass and vocals throughout the record ) losing his father to cancer (" 99 % of Us Is Failure ").

* A thinly veiled version of the character appears in the Doctor Who story The Celestial Toymaker.

" From then on, she owns the audience, and, when she appears only thinly veiled in the third act, Zola writes: All of a sudden, in the good-natured child the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire.

She appears as a character in Answered Prayers, Truman Capote's final, unfinished, thinly veiled roman à clef.

Ballard tries to prove his innocence and expose McCarty ( who appears to be a veiled reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy ).

In 1985, Croatto recorded another mega-hit: his song, El Niñito Jesus ( aka " Se llama Jesús "), released during the Christmas season, which told about a poor and hungry child, named Jesus ( a thinly veiled reference to the Christ child ), with wornout pants, and no shoes, and who walked into a house of well doers begging for attention, while the people household rejected him, first euphemistically, then rather openly.

A lot of the press ' focus was also placed on Stanković's friendship with previous head coach Mancini and assistant coach Mihajlović with veiled suggestions that it was this friendly relationship with the coaching duo that kept the Serb midfielder in the club even when his performances were less than stellar throughout the 2007 – 08 season.

She leaves at the conclusion of the second episode of the season, after having a thinly veiled argument with Grissom while dealing with the distraught husband of a victim whose case she had worked eight years prior.

Capp followed this success with other allegorical fantasy critters, including the aboriginal and masochistic " Kigmies ," who craved abuse ( a story that began as a veiled comment on racial and religious oppression ), the dreaded " Nogoodniks " ( or bad shmoos ), and the irresistible " Bald Iggle ," a guileless creature whose sad-eyed countenance compelled involuntary truthfulness — with predictably disastrous results.

A September 2009 article in The National, titled " A noble side to Ig Nobels ," says that although the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research, history shows that trivial research sometimes leads to important breakthroughs.

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.

In the sketch-comedy TV show In Living Color, Jim Carey plays " Dickie Peterson, Cherub of Justice ," a thinly veiled spoof of the Guardian Angels.

Or, because of the fact that the dead are gracefully called " the good ," are they in veiled language asking in their prayer that none of their household may die?

The essay accused these writers of participating in an " onslaught against Zionism and the Jewish State ," which he considered a veiled form of supporting a rise in anti-Semitism.

Other potential sources of controversy were represented by Fénelon's novelistic rendering of her experience, with reconstructed conversations and thinly veiled name changes ( Violette Jacquet became " Florette ," Hélène Scheps and Hélène Rounder both became " Irene ," Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was " Marta ," and Fanny Birkenwald was " Anny "), and her frank treatment of both prostitution and lesbianism in the camps, with several alleged lesbian liaisons between orchestra members ( toward which Fénelon was compassionate ).

He included " The Homer They Fall ," writing that Drederick Tatum is " a thinly veiled Mike Tyson parody who's made cameos over the years.

" The Albuquerque Journal describes the MindHead organization " a rather thinly veiled but nevertheless amusing blast at Scientology ," and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram characterizes it as an " organization that comes across as a thinly veiled send-up of Scientology.

Rep. Rick Boucher ( D-VA ) argued in support of a 2005 federal tort reform that gave immunity to gun manufacturers in certain lawsuits because such lawsuits were " nothing more than thinly veiled attempts to circumvent the legislative process and achieve gun control through litigation "; reform supporters complained that ( and the Pentagon supported the bill on the grounds that ) the plaintiffs were trying to " sue manufacturers out of existence " through forcing them to incur $ 250 million in legal defense expenses, while gun control supporters argued that the legislation took away "... the right of victims to be able to have their day in court ," that the bill gave unprecedented immunity to a single industry, and that the law was unconstitutional.

* 965 When darkness long has veiled my mind

Either way, Everlast's verse from the Dilated Peoples all star track " Ear Drums Pop ( Remix )" contained a thinly veiled reference to Eminem (" Cock my hammer, spit a comet like Haley / I buck a. 380 on ones that act shady "), and went on to warn " You might catch a beatdown out where I come from " in his recounting of the incident.

Interestingly, in more than one madrigal, he uses a repeated musical phrase, composed to the text, " Vita de la mia vita " ( Light of my Life ), apparently as a kind of aural signature, or perhaps as a veiled reference to a specific individual.