The comparatively thin covering of paints and varnishes on Study # 2 provides a kind of X-ray view into the underlying structure of Larmon's paintings. (bampfa.org)
Stalinism is a more or less thin cover for class rule by party and state nomenklatura, though at times when connected with recent revolutionary activity it has produced liberatory ideas (Milovan Djilas, Imre Nagy (and his «co-conspirators»), Alexander Dubček). (politics.stackexchange.com)