They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
