barely-veiled

Updated: May 18, 2025

Ralston would have offered her harbourage had she desired it, but there was pride in Stella a pride that surged and rebelled very far below her serenity. She received favours from none. And so, unshackled and unchaperoned, she had gone her way among her critics, and no one not even Tommy suspected how deep was the wound that their barely-veiled hostility had inflicted.

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - The Lamp in the Desert

A little music would be attempted that is, he would sing song after song, while she accompanied him, but a song was rarely completed. Generally, before or at the middle, he would seize the music in a gust of irrepressible and barely-veiled irritability, and fling it on the piano yet they attempted the music with unwavering persistence, and both rose to go to the instrument with mutual alacrity.

Victoria Cross - Six Women