Veiling Sentence Examples

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  • Dulce glanced at her father and then at Carmen, her dark eyes barely veiling contempt.

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  • The reforms proposed included the adoption of European time, the European calendar, and the Latin alphabet; the abolition of veiling of women - as a practice of far-reaching, injurious influence upon the race; the abolition of the annual, month-long fast of Ramazan, and of the Feasts of Bairam.

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  • Marriage retains certain traces of the original system of capture; but Druse women enjoy much consideration, and are comparatively well educated, dignified and free in their bearing in spite of their close veiling.

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  • This implies that the whole of Western theology has been an aberration or an exoteric veiling of the truth.'

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  • But, owing to the various partial reflections which the illuminating cone of rays undergoes when traversing the surfaces of the lenses, a portion of the light comes again into the preparation, and into the eye of the observer, thus veiling the image.

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  • Chapter 4 examines the iconography of veiling and the difficulties involved in decoding ancient representations of female dress.

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