| She has the ability to scratch and burrow under the surface of human experience and lay bare both the sacred and profane. |
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| Moreover, they saw it as a closed system governed by its own elaborate rules, which it was the task of the structuralist to lay bare. |
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| The three lines served to lay bare a story's structure, consisting of a powerful beginning, a short development and a surprising punchline. |
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| It will lay bare our personalities and make known our character, or lack thereof. |
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| Every new measure of law is placed in the dock with the government as advocate and the opposition to lay bare its faults. |
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| However, the rulings seemed to lay bare a shortcoming in the justice system. |
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| I feel that people are looking at us now with a magnifying glass to lay bare any fault we might have. |
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| You hone your skill with a pen instead of a paddle, lay bare your soul on paper, and send it in to a magazine editor. |
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| We have to lay bare the deep roots of violent radicalisation and the recruitment of terrorists. |
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| The events in Kashmir lay bare the hypocrisy of the U.S. war on terrorism. |
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| In vain does Geology lay bare the Tertiary formation, with its enormous theroid mammalia, far surpassing in size the largest animals we are acquainted with. |
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| In Traveling Mercies, she demonstrates a unique ability to lay bare her soul even its ugliest parts without ever coming off as narcissistic or solipsistic. |
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| Some cough up preposterous jury awards, while others lay bare the egregious failures of the criminal justice system. |
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| Although any hot-button issue can lay bare the way fear fuels money in politics, the gun issue does it best. |
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| Zwillich knew the image would lay bare his trekkie obsession to friends and followers. |
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| In his fiction, Maugham often sought to lay bare the hypocrisies of his characters. |
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| For an organization that extols trustworthiness, these files lay bare an appalling dissonance. |
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| We earnestly hope that this Conference will lay bare the full spectrum of the destructive consequences this practice has had on our continent. |
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| We are here to lay bare our memories, our unchanged present and the destiny that awaits us. |
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| It can lay bare, if only by omission, what the true priorities and values are. |
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| Just like the Zone, the eponymous sculpture carries a meaning which its appearance does not lay bare but which it incarnates symbolically: the superimposition of the real and the ideal. |
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| These figures lay bare the extreme pressure across the system. |
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| Holmes's powers unravel the mystery, and lay bare what villainies there are to be exposed. |
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| In the sections that follow, I have therefore drawn upon multiple sources in the US and European intelligence communities in an attempt to lay bare the anatomy of this controversial programme. |
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| The tendency to lay bare the water's edge comes from urbanites' desire to control the growth and proliferation of plants which might cloak the landscape and hinder access to the waterway. |
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| Containing the senior principles and laws which apply to every problem of work, here are the discoveries which lay bare the core of these problems and explain the very fabric of life itself. |
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| The best strategy, Girbal insists, is to lay bare the inequalities and hurdles to gender parity, which are far from being insuperable, and can be altered by political decisions. |
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| Good intentions sometimes lay bare a kind of chummy condescension. |
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| I can inform you and the House that the Bureau considered this case yesterday and that there will be a written report, which will lay bare all the matters connected with it. |
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| The postings lay bare the elaborate pathos of teenagedom today. |
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| I AGREED with Heather Greenaway's opinion of ballad opera When They Lay Bare. |
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