Sentences with phrase «veil over»

Playing Sarah McLachlan's cover of Joni Mitchell's «River,» from McLachlan's Wintersong album, cast a dark veil over Sarah's voice.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently decided a case regarding the ability of a complainant in a sexual assault case to wear a veil over her face while testifying in court.36 At the preliminary inquiry, the judge ordered that she remove her niqab before testifying.

Next time Blair is in Berlin he should get that nice Angela Merkel to teach him how to spell schadenfreude.Now is a good time to look back over 2007 with a glow of satisfaction — or perhaps to draw a veil over the events of the year and to resolve that 2008 will be better.

AL: This is where I should draw the veil over the whole filmmaking process, and let you leave this conversation thinking that I had some genius plan.

The reaction of some climate change denialists was apparently as predictable as it was regrettable, but PEER has drawn a merciful veil over the specific threats and insults that were hurled.

The attractive wrappers, too, are a distraction from what lies beneath, a veil over the disturbing truth that things may look fine, but underneath the surface they're not.

Indeed, the fracking industry would like nothing more to keep a thick veil over their activities, certainly over the exact chemicals they use in the process, and even more certainly when the question of potential aquifer contamination is being discussed.

It was an issue with an emblem — the stark, seasonal «hole» that was discovered in the protective atmospheric veil over Antarctica.

Approaching Hauser and Wirth Somerset by car is a reminder that middle class mythologies still hang like an opulent damask veil over our disquieting new landscape.

The pictures are rich in detail and color, as if to emphasize a moderated, delusional experience, a veil over your eyes.

Collection (1954/1955) is the artist's first «Combine painting,» an early type of Combine that hangs on the wall like a traditional painting but reaches into three dimensions with various elements attached to the work's surface — such as the silk veil over the mirror attached just off - center and the found wood scraps along the top edge.

I am trying to express this flux — this constant shifting of one thing over another, like a veil over the moment itself.»

Its meaning can be interpreted as «white shouldered» or «with a web or veil over her face,» perfect for a female dog with a white blaze or collar, like a border collie or rough collie.

Wearing a black dress, a black veil over her pale face, her lips red with a thin line of lipstick, his friend, whom he'd always thought pretty, became, in her grief, hauntingly beautiful.

All car's I've had (second hand and between 15 - 30 years old) have always had a greasy veil over engine components.

It's a portrait of beauty at the service of a thankless goal: to draw a veil over a heart that's sacrificed itself to the happiness of others.

The emotional restraint displayed by Jerry Lundegaard and Mike is a thin and disingenuous veil over yearnings for money or companionship.

Her long veil over a pretty flower crown gave the look a whimsical, ethereal feel.

Softly drape the veil over your head (a hidden comb holds it in place), and the embellished border will frame your face for the prettiest effect.

HOW TO USE IT: After you wave or air dry your hair, flip your hair from side to side, applying a light veil over each section.

«The key to wearing foundation when you have freckles is choosing one that creates a sheer veil over the skin.

Designed by International Artistic Director for Givenchy Le Makeup Nicolas Degennes, these high quality professional hand - made brushes will ensure powders are left as nothing more than a subtle uniform veil over your face.

Ultra fine and highly reflective, veil over skin with its applicator puff or your favorite brush.

Neither too shimmery nor too flat, this powder acts like a soft - focus veil over breakouts, pores, and wrinkles.

«There's no veil over any part of his support.

The veil over Bogotá began in mid-December 1808, which meant the eruption occurred a few days or a week earlier.

In government it requires civil servants and politicians to coyly draw a gauzy veil over the business of party politics in the run up to elections or referendums.

«he's (Jamie Oliver) thrown his own veil over the truth — which is that change must come from the bottom up.

Thus, only thus, by drawing a veil over the past, by keeping lowered the curtain which divided the Fascist world from all that lay beyond its frontiers could the Government assert itself as a regime, as the regime: not merely as a system of government, but as a philosophy of life; one might well say, as a Church.

«The supermarket heavens of my new neighbors,» Jan writes from his suburban apartment in Washington, D.C., «which draw a veil over suffering and therefore make no sense of it or of anything else, take me back to those beautiful, terrible days, when our dear city turned in its sleep and its dreams were dreams of a crucified God.»

But this idealism also throws a veil over violence and insists that there is no violence when in fact violence obtains everywhere.

That is to say, during those two centuries the nation refused to face reality and piously threw a veil over the facts.

Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not see the end of the fading splendor.

What if my authorities kept me from school, raped me, put a veil over my face, sold me as a bride at 12 and kept me in the house?

Verily, Allah is All - Aware of what they do.AND tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers... Qur «an 24:30 - 31

Veils over industrial armature, by Elaine Cameron - Weir with JTT, make beauty a threat.

Not exact matches

Ripa's several mentions of «Today» in her lead - up to the Seacrest announcement may have been a thinly veiled reference to the competition and the rival show's history of passing over Seacrest.

The tussling over the arena, during which Katz made veiled threats about moving the Oilers from Edmonton three different times, has damaged his reputation with fans.

If we are not misinterpreting something, Beijing has hinted in veiled terms at possibly deploying its fairly tight control over the non-convertible currency's exchange rate as a weapon in the ongoing trade dispute with the US.

British overseas territories, including the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, will be forced to lift the veil of secrecy over the ownership of companies...

Police declined to specify whether the woman was wearing a burqa, a full - body covering that includes a mesh over the face, or a niqab, a full - face veil with an opening for the eyes.

And the Lord will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations... the Lord God will wipe way tears from all faces, and the reproach of God's people the Lord will take away from all the earth.»

And there is this: According to Luke 23:44 - 45, there occurred «about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.»

Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds; but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed.

If you are such a hollow person that a billboard challenging your religion is reason to fight it is truly a thin veil you wear, and undoubtedly you are over compensating.

It is a rugged and strong land, a land whose charm is austere: rocky hills climbing their juniper studded slopes steeply to the sky - line, narrow glens, hasty watercourses, but ever the sudden view from a hilltop over peopled valleys and far regions where mellowing distance clothes the hills in a veil of allurement and entices one on to things that the eye hath not seen nor the ear heard.

A veil lies over all beginnings.»

In some European nations, it was the debate over women wearing the veil that set off the attacks.

Not that such an answer is wholly false: Certainly the more picaresque side of Juan's adventures — the veil of night, the cloaked figure stealing over balconies and through windows, the sordid incognito — seems only quaint in light of today's morbidly austere and functionalist venereal aesthetics.

My quarrel is with those women who, knowing that they carry within them life by anyone's definition, refuse to confront that fact, insist on pulling the veil of self - regarding ignorance over what they bear, and abort because they are endowed with rights that trump all other rights and interests.