| It was out of sheer fear he wouldn't be able to stop himself from spewing out something nasty, thinly veiled as a compliment. |
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| But beyond the assertion of sovereign prerogative, there was also a thinly veiled message of contempt. |
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| Call me a grinch, but this movie is little more than a thinly veiled cash grab by Disney marketing execs. |
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| I watch with thinly veiled amusement as he insistently taps her on the shoulder. |
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| So far it looks like a thinly veiled threat to drag the process out in legalistic wranglings. |
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| That would, of course, be easier to say if there hadn't been two thinly veiled attempts to get me off my bahookie of late. |
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| This sequel to the 2001 sleeper hit is a thinly veiled facsimile of the first film. |
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| Specific scenarios peculiar to her class, and the idiosyncrasies and traits of her students were referred to, thinly veiled. |
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| Private clinics providing thinly veiled opportunities for queue-jumping have expanded. |
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| That was a pretty thinly veiled shot at Exel, who did not take the comments kindly. |
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| For the liberally-inclined, he peppers his chapters with many thinly veiled political comments about our energy policy. |
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| An attack on private education is itself a thinly veiled assault on those who choose to use it. |
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| At least there aren't any obvious product placements or thinly veiled morality lessons. |
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| That was a pretty thinly veiled shot at Van Exel, who did not take the comments kindly. |
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| His thinly veiled criticism of the management of the unit has been expressed more openly this weekend by the founder of the unit. |
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| Big Brother was populated with thinly veiled, needy egos desperate to be noticed so that they could hide their distinct lack of character. |
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| She's Steve Jobs' biological sister, and it's said to be a thinly veiled portrait of his life, so I feel it's a bit of a call of duty read. |
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| In a thinly veiled attempt to mobilise lynch mobs, the press gleefully reported calls for the two to be hunted down and punished. |
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| It was a thinly veiled attempt to provide medical cover for intensely political decisions. |
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| There is a thinly veiled measure of ideological and partisan bias driving this entire matter. |
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| Has Abbott put spin on it so many years later to turn him into the good guy and add a thinly veiled advocacy of adoption over abortion? |
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| Brown also used his speech to deliver a series of thinly veiled warnings to his rivals in the higher echelons of the government. |
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| The team captain leveled a thinly veiled criticism at the club president just last week. |
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| The series often gets sidetracked into thinly veiled environmentalist cheerleading, which leads to some of the weaker storylines. |
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| He phrased it as a question, but Damien knew him well enough to know that it was a thinly veiled demand that his brother stated. |
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| The Greek crisis led to an ugly spate of thinly veiled racism against lazy and spendthrift Mediterranean types in the media. |
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| This was rather a thinly veiled attack on our public health care system in Canada. |
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| Grimes is a smart person who has projected nothing but fear and uncertainty thinly veiled with endless boasts of toughness. |
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| If the truth be told, a number of European leaders knew that their countries would reject this thinly veiled constitution. |
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| If I have one criticism, it's the fact that the Olympic thing was just a thinly veiled premise designed to give the two women an excuse to go on tour. |
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| I am profoundly concerned that Bill C-484 is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to make abortions illegal in Canada. |
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| That sentence is not even a thinly veiled reference to the newest kind of nuclear weapons, the B-61 bunker busters. |
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| They suspect it to be nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to either extinguish or diminish their treaty rights. |
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| Ms. McPherson is so obviously a thinly veiled smoker that it's ridiculous. |
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| Just yesterday the Prime Minister went to New York to the UN and took cheap shots and lobbed thinly veiled attacks at our American friends. |
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| But he's a sophomore and, what's more, sophomoric in thinking that this qualifies as a grand revolution instead of a thinly veiled stab at novelty. |
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| This is obviously a thinly veiled attempt to avoid accusations of sexism. |
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| There were several thinly veiled invitations to accept other kingdoms hospitality, a bribe, and also something I'm pretty sure was a sexual come-on from a female guildmaster. |
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| I was nodding partly to show consideration of Ahmed's comment, but also partly as a thinly veiled attempt at cooling myself down. |
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| During his brief stop, Howard issued two thinly veiled threats. |
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| You expect Bowen to nod his head with I-told-you-so satisfaction, take a thinly veiled shot at everyone who served him his walking papers. |
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| In other instances, CIA recruiters used thinly veiled threats to coerce their cooperation. |
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| I am shocked that the government did not respond to this thinly veiled threat. |
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| Our Anglo-Saxon competitors in particular have a habit of making thinly veiled attacks on our system of bank-client confidentiality. |
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| In a thinly veiled reference to the United States, the G20 statement said advanced countries, including those with reserve currencies, would be vigilant against excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates. |
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| Was its foul-tempered supermodel a thinly veiled Naomi Campbell? |
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| Other groups even issued thinly veiled threats of legal action. |
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| Is it pure altruism or thinly veiled self-interest? |
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| The artworks themselves were often thinly veiled propaganda. |
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| It may not have technically been a thinly veiled government ad for the Conservative Party, but it was a profound waste of the time of the House which the transport minister used to pat the finance minister on the back. |
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| Organized crime operates like this and the federal government has gone so far as to make thinly veiled threats to cut off supplies to the first nations if they do not enforce the provisions of the new act. |
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| Since 2011 the country has conduced two nuclear tests and two satellite launches – largely derided as thinly veiled ballistic missile tests – in defiance of international pressure. |
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| With time, this famous bamboozler has become a literary character in his own right, as have members of his family, whether directly represented or thinly veiled. |
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| Jack Warner, the controversial Trinidadian former Concacaf president who was once one of Blatter's closest allies and among those charged on Wednesday, delivered a thinly veiled threat after being released on bail. |
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| This show is a thinly veiled advertorial posing as a competition between tradies to be crowned King Gee Jack of All Trades. |
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| It is a thinly veiled criticism of Canada's leadership in that regard. |
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| The underlying tone behind the approach of governments is largely hortative and punitive, within a thinly veiled deficit and victim-blaming mentality. |
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| Uruguayans of many classes and backgrounds enjoy reading historietas, comic books that often blend humour and fantasy with thinly veiled social criticism. |
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| Thinly veiled insults and acerbic comments are the tools of his or her trade. |
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