Thus conceived, the course of evolution is comparable, not as before, to the gradual unveiling of a blank canvas, revealing simply a greater extent of the same appearance, but to the gradual unveiling of a picture whose full unity of meaning is held in suspense till the disclosure is completed.

These essays much resemble Thackeray's dissection of Swift for their terrible sarcasm, their unmerciful criticism, and their minute unveiling of human weakness and hypocrisy.

It is not only that here and there are solid statements of doctrine, wherein some massive argument is constructed for the partial unveiling of redemptive glory.

King William was packing for Ems, designing to be back at the peaceful unveiling of his father's statue the first week in August.

There was no sudden burst of remembrance, but a slow unveiling of the reality in which her spirit was mystically fortified against it.