veil
Example Sentences
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Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”
The idea that the mind behind the anaesthetic veil is not entirely silent has long intrigued scientists.
From BBC
Clarence Dillon was portrayed in the press as a model investment banker, but his public image veiled a darker reality.
Several family members and friends described to detectives a group led by Lori and Chad that met to pray, believing that they could drive out evil spirits and seek revelations from “beyond the spiritual veil.”
From Seattle Times
A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police last September.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
