Thinly

They are heavy, indeed, but that is OK: Fruitcake looks best in thinly sliced cross sections. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It lost me by resting its plot on stereotypes and drowning its credibility in thinly veiled references to contemporary incidents and issues. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A couple of mine weren't entirely ripe and I ended up cutting the skin thinly away with a sharp knife to avoiud having to gouge the tender flesh as I tried to prise away the skin. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The last popular favorite is 'Orpheus C. Kerr' -- a name thinly disguising that of Office Seeker, and which is not indeed too well chosen, since in the volume before us little or nothing relative to the very suggestive subject of office-seeking, on the part of the author at least, is to be found. ❋ Various (N/A)

I very shortly decided that while they may be suitable for countries where little traveling is done, they would be thoroughly useless in thinly populated countries where people think less of traveling 3,000 miles than they do about their dinner. ❋ Unknown (1890)

However, running second behind the Likud Party's Benjamin Netanyahu and with her male rivals attempting to undercut her credibility, using language some describe as thinly veiled chauvinism, Livni has pulled out the gender card, possibly in realization of the potential strength of women voters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Environmentalists have balked at parts of the Everglades restoration, which some call a thinly veiled attempt to make sure South Florida has enough freshwater to drink. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think this may already be happening; outside of a few blockbuster authors who are well-established, or who have passed the torch (and franchise dollars) to younger authors, I’m not seeing nearly as many fantasies in thinly-veiled Dark Ages settings as I did growing up in the Seventies and Eighties. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Intelligent Design movement has been unequivocally identified as thinly veiled Creationism in the courts and is nothing less than an all out attack to redefine science itself to substitute supernatural explanations of natural phenomenon in place of rational scientific investigations of cause and effect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As you know, I do not think that homosexuals should be allowed to marry or to enter into "civil partnerships" (which I have already described as a thinly-disguised proxy for marriage). ❋ Unknown (2008)

I love the idea of thinly sliced zucchini, topped with goat cheese and slightly marinated in a rasberry or balsamic vinaigrette. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2007)

At the time the ACNP report was called a thinly veiled attempt by the drug companies to preempt the FDA by making a public announcement in favor of SSRI use with children. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I like the idea of thinly sliced and blanched asparagus! ❋ Unknown (2006)

INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): What one western diplomat in the discussions called a thinly-veiled threat came from this man, Cyrus Nasseri, Iran's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What one Western diplomat in the discussions called a thinly veiled threat, came from this man Cyrus Naseri, Iran's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. ❋ Unknown (2005)

According to the paperbacks, President Kennedy (or, that is, a thinly disguised version of him) formed CURE shortly before his assassination. ❋ Unknown (1985)

From the back of the house a woman's voice called thinly, "Who is it, John?" ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1984)

By comparison with this method Hooja's lovemaking might be called thinly veiled. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)