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Example sentences for: cloak-and-dagger

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Like that story, this one comes replete with a cloak-and-dagger fantasy in which the truth-seeking journalist (in this case the author of the X-Files Encyclopedia ) faces danger from shadowy conspirators for attempting to expose the truth.
Perhaps the cloak-and-dagger ambience and absence of an advocate for the surveillance target persuade otherwise skeptical judges to give credence to government security claims.
Prudie feels slightly ambivalent about the cloak-and-dagger underpinnings involved.