Word: concealing
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...White House even went so far as to call Nixon's conversations with Pompidou "about the best he ever had" with a foreign leader. The meetings did establish an unusually good personal rapport between Nixon and Pompidou. But all the diplomatic sauce could not conceal the slightly bitter flavor of U.S.French relations. In fact, the visit seemed to underscore the differences between the two nations on Viet Nam and the Middle East...
...smell it, taste it, hear it, use it, squeeze it, chew it, digest it, decompose it, excrete it, put it against our foreheads on hot days and in our pockets on the way to a show. We possess it like no other art. Unlike other arts, it doesn't conceal its etymology quite as completely. The orange is non-figurative, non-metaphorical. The orange, as food, does not stand for something else except an orange and the nutrients it contains. It is its own metaphor...
Ambience should never try to conceal the quality of the food, although it can enhance the enjoyment of a fair meal. Like Mt. Rushmore, a work of art whose significance and crafts-manship is somehow improved by its debt to the environment, many inexpensive restaurants overcome an unexceptional menu with an alchemizing atmosphere...
Despite its superb ensemble work, the British National company has been unable to conceal during this Los Angeles run that it has one actress on its roster with the special authority of a star, Maggie Smith. As Masha, flinging herself into the brief, doomed adulterous affair with Colonel Vershinin (Robert Stephens), she is the incandescent epitome of all women in love. Here is a Hedda Gabler of a Russian provincial town, a woman of fire, intelligence, gravity and spirit, married to a bureaucratic paper clip of a man who bores her to headaches rather than tears. Impelled to passion with...
Neither side made any effort to conceal its disdain for the other. Murtagh, a stern former prosecutor, showed little patience with the six long-haired, modishly attired young lawyers with limited trial experience. He hurried their questions, curtly denied their motions, and dropped hints that he will hold the lawyers in contempt for their clients' outbursts...