veiling

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Umberger and other critics have adduced careful veilings of provocative content in Traylor’s work.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

His mother appears in a long series, retreating ever further into cubicles and frames and visual veilings.

From Time Magazine Archive

He faithfully translated in their blond harmony the dunes, gray or golden, with the sun, the trees with their pale foliage, and the skies with their light vaporous veilings.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther

Jeff met it as he might have met such a query from a man to whom he owed no veilings of hard facts.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

Then let the dates for the various veilings be appointed.

From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir