2589 examples of mask in sentences

He was wrapped in a torn piece of linen; his face was like a chalk mask, and his eyes were redder than glowing coals.

He laughs several different ways: heartily at times, as men of my temperament mostly do; boisterously on occasion, after Jeremy's fashion; now and then cryptically, using laughter as a mask; then he owns a smile that suggests nothing more nor less than kindness based on understanding of human nature.

It was Grim at last without the mask on.

"'Why, surely, it's Mr. Cohen from No. 30!' "The mention of a name familiar down the length of the street had caused two or three other men to come forward and to look more closely into the horribly distorted mask of the murdered man.

The king, as his foreign forces arrived along with this bull, now ventured to take off the mask; and, under sanction of the pope's decree, recalled all the liberties which he had granted to his subjects, and which he had solemnly sworn to observe.

The king, as soon as he received the pope's absolution from his oath, accompanied with menaces of excommunication against all opponents, trusting to the countenance of the church, to the support promised him by many considerable barons, and to the returning favour of the people, immediately took off the mask.

Bengal was a girl whose every feeling was written plainly upon her face; she could not mask her emotions under an inscrutable countenance.

He seemed never to tire of listening, lying back for the most part on the silver-cushioned couch, and wearing an inscrutable mask.

And, finally, affectation cannot last very long, and one day the mask will fall off.

IV., pp. 187 and 198), Schopenhauer explains politeness as a conventional and systematic attempt to mask the egoism of human nature in the small affairs of life,an egoism so repulsive that some such device is necessary for the purpose of concealing its ugliness.

You should never lose sight of the fact that ordinary politeness is only a grinning mask: if it shifts its place a little, or is removed for a moment, there is no use raising a hue and cry.

In those moments Time mocks us by wearing the mask of space; and if we travel to the spot, we can see how much we have been deceived.

"And, praised be God, some still live who have not learned to conceal their nature under a mask of fashion.

One man, I suppose, puts on the mask of law, which he has borrowed for the purpose from a barrister, only in order to be able to give another man a sound drubbing; a second has chosen the mask of patriotism and the public welfare with a similar intent; a third takes religion or purity of doctrine.

One man, I suppose, puts on the mask of law, which he has borrowed for the purpose from a barrister, only in order to be able to give another man a sound drubbing; a second has chosen the mask of patriotism and the public welfare with a similar intent; a third takes religion or purity of doctrine.

They are the only people who give themselves out to be what they are; and therefore they go about without any mask at all, and consequently take a humble rank.

And in his imagination, he saw the one picture merge and coarsen into the other, the dainty trappings of lace and ribbons change to a shapeless cloak, the young face wither from its beauty into a wrinkled and yellow mask.

A mask of perverted Scriptures may hide its ugly face, but cannot change a single feature.

I grieve to admit it, but Kathleen had utterly forgotten Billy by this, and was no more thinking of him than she was of the Man in the Iron Mask.

Simpson, watching close behind him, says he got the impression of a mask that was on the verge of dropping off, and that underneath they would discover something black and diabolical, revealed in utter nakedness.

(In Black mask, June 1940) © 19Apr40; B453682.

(In Black mask, May 1939) © 7Apr39; B412385.

(In Black mask, Mar. 1939)

She knows nothing of those Western conventions that make it "good form" for us to hide all our emotions, all our depth of feeling, under the mask of not caring at all.

To guard against the burning effect of the sun and the prairie winds upon our faces, I had, during some of the last days of my visit, prepared for each of us a mask of brown linen, with the eyes, nose, and mouth fitted to our features; and, to enhance their hideousness, I had worked eyebrows, eyelashes, and a circle around the opening for the mouth, in black silk.

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