Veneer
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Reynolds character "Lewis" was interesting as a guy who comes off very tough but underneath the manly
veneer
lies a very soft and broken man (I was impressed with his performance!)
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Sometimes, it took a more, took a
veneer
of sophistication, and people said, "You know, it's nothing to do with Indians.
Now appearances, of course, can be deceptive, and to an extent, this feisty, energetic persona of lecture-going and traffic cone stealing was a veneer, albeit a very well-crafted and convincing one.
With age comes the
veneer
of respectability and a
veneer
of uncomfortable truths.
But then I gathered the data, and I was stunned to find no correlation between those traits, because it turns out that agreeableness-disagreeableness is your outer veneer: How pleasant is it to interact with you?
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