This pandemic has shaking up the status quo, and laid bare a lot of our country's deep seated problems, from massive economic inequality, to ongoing racial disparities, to a lack of basic health care for people who need it.
The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.
The pandemic has laid bare stark inequalities in health care, housing and basic services between the Navajo nation and the states of new Mexico Utah and Arizona.
David Cameroon thought to rally his MPs behind him when he appeared before them in the House of Commons instead the divisions in the Party were laid bare.
The finance ministers meeting was beset with similar problems faced by last week's G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, which laid bare the discord in current geopolitics.
What Merbok laid bare is their vulnerability and the extreme need for improved and strengthened infrastructure as such storms become the new normal in the region.
In an article for Smithsonian magazine in 2002, the late historian Stephen E. Ambrose laid bare the contradictions in both Washington and Jefferson's lives.