But the twin Baroque churches are today partly veiled by scaffolds and dropcloths.

Lebna Dengel conducted state business inside his great white tent, sitting on a platform, dressed in rich robes and with his face partly veiled with blue taffeta.

Retired now from the pinnacle of a long career, he has sought in his late 60's to mine the partly veiled, partly relinquished landscape of an irregular childhood.

The closest thing New York has to a 9/11 shrine for everyone, the Church Street viewing fence, will be partly veiled to the public in coming weeks as the sidewalk is moved to allow construction along the eastern edge of the World Trade Center site.

In Virgil's poetry, a sense of the greatness of Rome and Italy is the leading motive of a passionate rhetoric, partly veiled by the considered delicacy of his language.

The trees receded to give them a view of a distant headland partly veiled by the long plumes of smoke moving inland.

This is quickly manifest, even in the earliest narratives of childhood and youth, set in Updike's native small-town Pennsylvania, with its poignant intimacies of Depression-era families whose autobiographical phases, like elusive moons, are only partly veiled.

Instead of promoting a confessional intimacy, the singer and ensemble conjure a shared emotional life in which the sadder emotions are partly veiled behind a group camaraderie.

Fog is fog and capable of all kinds of brooding effects, but what carries it beyond effects to something approaching an existential condition is the human figure that looms through it, partly veiled and partly disclosed.