Word: veil
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...music of Equinox plays in the background, a woman wearing a bridal veil and a black leather catsuit grabs the metal bars surrounding her in a raised platform known as The Cage...
...Saturday lengthens into evening, the cathedral compound fills with the billowing white gabi, or shawls, that envelop men and women alike, serving as turban, blanket, veil. At their own rhythm, people go about the business of worship. Men read from leatherbound lives of the saints; women ululate softly as they lean on tall prayer rests. Everyone will keep the vigil through the night. As darkness falls, shrouded bundles occupy every empty space on the hard, stony ground, huddling around the dim golden flicker of tiny candles...
...James, the guilty pleasure of the British, tries her hardest to put a cerebral veil over her shamefully entertaining prose. Well-practiced in her deception, James takes typical whodunits and wraps them in eloquent, flowing language. At times, she almost convinces you--gasp!--that a thriller is of literary value...
...Emory University anesthesiologist Peter Sebel, who has studied the problem. In most cases the pain-killers keep working, and all the patient feels is the unnerving pressure of a scalpel cutting and scraping. But, Sebel estimates conservatively, in at least 400 such awareness accidents, the pain breaks through the veil of drugs. It's possible, say other experts, that the number of patients who wake up each year to excruciating pain in the middle of surgery could be in the thousands...
After the butterflies were relocated to long tubes of bridal-veil material, the kids gingerly placed them on sponges filled with honey and water, then took delight as the creatures learned to go to the nectar on their own. Two days before their release, the students ever so carefully attached tiny tags to their hind wings--tags that a University of Kansas professor would use to monitor their migration to Mexico...