half-revealed

The secret history is promised and half-revealed but not delievered, not really.

On "The Red Tree" yuki_onna 2009

Coral gardens — gardens of the sea nymphs, wherein fancy feigns cool, shy, chaste faces and pliant forms half-revealed among gently swaying robes; a company of porpoise, a herd of dugong; turtle, queer and familiar fish, occasionally the spouting of a great whale, and always the company of swift and graceful birds.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

A faint flutter of a half-revealed world, that could not quite leap out of the darkness! —

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

Bending, she reached into the jar and pulled out a half-revealed piece of paper.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

The slant of the eyebrows, the long, strange shape of the ears half-revealed by the brushed-back hair.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

The slant of the eyebrows, the long, strange shape of the ears half-revealed by the brushed-back hair.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

He recalled a face half-revealed by firelight, the smell of buckskin and pine, the touch of a soft hand ...

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

We should consider whether he makes them (1) merely caricatures, or (2) type characters, standing for certain general traits of human nature but not convincingly real or especially significant persons, or (3) genuine individuals with all the inconsistencies and half-revealed tendencies that in actual life belong to real personality.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

They possessed a rare charm, caught from a trick the eyelids had of drooping slowly and then suddenly and unexpectedly lifting to reveal the wide, bright depths, that half-concealed, half-revealed power, which is so tantalizing.

Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason

They were the mere breathing of a strong, sane soul towards an infinite hope, an infinite possible good, a great half-revealed Fatherhood.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray