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  • Imagine Ann coming home from class one day in Hawaii in fall 1960 in one of her all-concealing muumuus—she had written Botkin that muumuus were worn on campus—and telling her father that there was this charming, larger-than-life Kenyan in her class.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • Imagine Ann coming home from class one day in Hawaii in fall 1960 in one of her all-concealing muumuus—she had written Botkin that muumuus were worn on campus—and telling her father that there was this charming, larger-than-life Kenyan in her class.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • But the thin slanting rays of early evening did catch the flash of the girls 'ivory bodies descending to the water where they gaily kicked through the surf froth and dove au naturel into the all-concealing southern sea.

    Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009

  • But the thin slanting rays of early evening did catch the flash of the girls 'ivory bodies descending to the water where they gaily kicked through the surf froth and dove au naturel into the all-concealing southern sea.

    Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009

  • Returning to the engine bay: Unlike a lot of new cars, in which the engine is shrouded under an all-concealing thermoplastic cover, the Juke's junk is in plain sight.

    Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose Dan Neil 2011

  • He spared a moment of thanks that today he was dressed in his best clothes beneath the all-concealing Student blues: to think that only this morning he'd been planning to start afresh, to impress his father and Anigrel with his devotion to the ways of the Mage life, to study and conform and be a good son of House Tavadon!

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • A small group of women clicked by in high heels, unaccompanied by men; a couple of them had cautiously swapped all-concealing burqas for pastel-colored head scarves.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • A small group of women clicked by in high heels, unaccompanied by men; a couple of them had cautiously swapped all-concealing burqas for pastel-colored head scarves.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Munira Shahamorad was 20 years old and dressed head to toe in all-concealing black robes when she showed up at the gates of the U.S.

    The Politics of Reassurance 2008

  • Monica Bellucci is excellent as Mary Magdalene, and through good makeup and camera-work and an all-concealing chador, sans veil manages to avoid becoming an "occasion for sin," as they used to call it in Religion class at Bishop McGuinness H.S. The handling of the Romans was especially effective, reminding me of nothing so much as the grunts in Full Metal Jacket or the brutal cops in L.A. Confidential.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004

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