concealments

Worse, the comedy memoir, although Bossypants takes the interesting approach to memoir of remembering almost nothing, and providing "revelations" that might more accurately be called "concealments".

Bossypants by Tina Fey – review 2011

But fiction ... when I say secrecy, I mean not only the long, long immersion in privacy and isolation, and the wooing of phantoms out of the air, but those bodiless concealments and disclosures of language that lurk in certain turns of dialogue, or the turn of an eye, or a hand, or a shaft of sky.

An Interview With Cynthia Ozick 2010

So many books revolve around shameful concealments.

Three Family Secrets We Can't Keep 2010

All these debt-enabled abuses extravagant spending, concealments of budgetary problems, and risky investment strategies came to a head in the second half of 2008, when spooked investors withdrew from the muni-bond market in droves.

The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb 2010

In the company they keep in "Hide/Seek," the all-gray paintings of Jasper Johns, always poignant in their reticence, now seem like the concealments of a bright life confined to the shadows.

National Portrait Gallery's 'Hide/Seek' finds a frame for sexual identity Blake Gopnik 2010

The Late Middle Classes deals expertly in secrets, concealments, ambiguities.

The Late Middle Classes; The Crucible; Ingredient X 2010

As in the case of the almost identical charges laid against Livia, one could make the rebuttal that such concealments actually fulfilled a valuable function in ensuring a smooth handover from one emperor to another and became part of the political furniture of many monarchical regimes.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Nearly all of us find ourselves in this war in contradictory ways that both obscure its bipolarity and leave the violence of this war un-categorical, and therefore subject to manifold concealments.

Stan Goff: The Governator Calls the Question (again) 2008

The eventfulness of Ereignis is experienced in the vicissitudes of history, no moment of which gives us an absolute vantage point from which preceding epochs may be judged; every age brings with it unprecedented disclosures and concomitant concealments of what has been disclosed.

Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008

The eventfulness of Ereignis is experienced in the vicissitudes of history, no moment of which gives us an absolute vantage point from which preceding epochs may be judged; every age brings with it unprecedented disclosures and concomitant concealments of what has been disclosed.

enowning enowning 2008