Sentences with phrase «fig leaf covering»

Only recently, before restoration, textbooks still showed Masaccio's Adam expelled from Paradise with a fig leaf covering his penis.

In U.S. News, Robert Pondiscio worries that some credit recovery programs are a mere fig leaf covering up academic failure and inflating graduation rates.

Not exact matches

First, make sure the «when in Rome» argument isn't just being used as a fig leaf to cover up what is really an appeal to convenience.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

The clothing they had made for themselves (fig leafs) was not a sufficient covering as far as God was concerned.

When they sinned, they tried to take the leaves from the fig tree (the tree they ate from) to cover themselves.

At first, as children before puberty, they were not ashamed — until the reality of their condition became manifest and they were ashamed and naked — even attempting to cover up with fig leaves.

The fig leaf could not cover it up as they knew they were naked.

Adam and Eve covered up with fig leaves at some point (the fig tree being one of the original species God created).

FWIW, with apologies to Mary Ellen Mayo... Adam and Eve, when they disobeyed God and lost their covering, used fig leaves to cover themselves.

Read Gen. 3:21 and find why Yahweh made coats of skin when they were already covered with fig leaves.

The blah - blah on «elegant solutions» is just an effort to cover cruel revenge with a fig leaf of rationale.

superiority stemming from the need to orient oneself and to change the fig leaves that are never enough to cover our universal sense of shame is what is divisive.

7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

Deregulation is the fig leaf that covers clandestine regulation (in contradiction therefore to the fundamental rule of democracy that demands transparency) by the dominant capital of oligopolies.

Sometimes paintings and statues had the genitals of their subjects covered by a representation of an actual fig leaf or similar object, either as part of the work or added afterwards for perceived modesty.

It was a mere fig leaf to cover the subordination of the territory to Kyiv.

This contradicts DiEM25's proposal to embark on a Constitutional Assembly process rather than creating a fig leaf of parliamentarianism by which to cover up the lack of democratic legitimacy.

Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker, in a statement, called the announcement a «wilted fig leaf to cover up his remaining conflicts of interest and his pitiful record of charitable giving.»

And Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called it a «fig leaf», saying it would not cover up Britain's «rotten» political system.

And this seems entirely appropriate given that the movie begins and ends with a presentation of and then an assault on a piece of sculpture — the first of which is stone and covered with a fig leaf, the second human and emotionally stripped bare.

Turn off the heat, cover, and let sit for 30 minutes, allowing the fig leaves to steep in the hot liquid.

In the same painting, the depiction of fig leaves echoes the covering of nudity in the history of painting and sculpture.

I am not sure whether you have seen one of these committees in action or not, but what you quoted is a fig leaf to cover the acute embarrassment of a heavily funded researcher being handed their head by an outside expert, a.k.a. Prof. Wegman.

«what you quoted is a fig leaf to cover the acute embarrassment of a heavily funded researcher being handed their head by an outside expert»

The IPCC got their rebuttal of McIntyre and the journal got a fig leaf of respectability to cover up its duplicity.

Would I be overcynical to observe that your «continued» post serves as a very poor fig leaf to cover your avoidance of the cogent and damning points made by commentators on your Part 1 about half an hour ago?

On Australian TV, 3 days ago, Michael Mann stated that:» 1000 y ago, the PLANET was warmer by 1C» He is using what the Fake Skeptics promote, to cover up his shame = that makes half of the commenters on this blog (the fake Skeptics) to be» Mann's fig leafs»....

«What's the chance of today's government anti-corruption summit being anything more than a fig leaf to cover up international inactivity?

When Adam and Eve saw they were naked in the garden, they covered themselves with fig leaves to cover up their fear of being exposed.

Individuals engage in the fig leaf dance to cover up what they do not want others to know about their true selves.