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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?
And this tenuous veneer around our planet is what allows life to flourish.
And what it entails is the use of resin, of this very thick resin with a veneer of the same kind of wood that's used throughout the hall, in a kind of seamless continuity that wraps the hall in light, like a belt of light: rather than separating, like a proscenium would separate the audience from performers, it connects audience with players.
20th Century-Fox musical has a glossy veneer yet seems a bit tatty around the edges.
The film attempts to lead the audience down convoluted paths without any sense of symbolism or meaning, to make them sympathize with one-dimensional characters, and above all hopes that they will ignore the underdeveloped plot, full of unreconciled loose ends, by hiding it under a veneer of CGI effects and neo-surrealism.
What we get instead is poorly acted hysteria dressed up with a stereotypical try hard eighties veneer.
We people must realize how much veneer is being put forth as real?
And it does have an 80's cheezoid veneer that means that it is always kind of fun.
There is a veneer of then-contemporary film-making techniques displayed by director Arthur Hiller, but none of that can hide the old-fashioned, cliché-ridden story at its core.
All it really had to provide was that thin veneer of titillation and a mildly engaging story and all would have been watchable.
Bernsen positively shines as Dr. Feinstone; he expertly projects a truly unnerving underlying creepiness that's right beneath Feinstone's deceptively calm and assured veneer.
Perhaps its because his show is losing it's authentic veneer which causes Noon to admit he is no longer himself.
For an early 1930's film, this step by step "peeling of the veneer of the mystery" is similar to the COLUMBO series, except in this film, you don't have the advantage of knowing who the killer was in advance.
This stand-out scary episode is given a substantial disturbing boost by the exceptional acting from gifted child actress Franks, who projects a truly unsettling sense of serene evil lurking just underneath a deceptively sweet and innocent angelic veneer.
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!)
They slowly begin to lose that veneer of civilization that they though only they possessed, the same patina these embattled locals once had, but lost long ago.
As "Joe"'s sad,pathetic sidekick,Miss Lloyd fulfills the promise shown in "Wish you were here",hiding vulnerability under a thin veneer of cynicism.Although perhaps not quite star - crossed lovers,they were certainly an ill - met couple,each egging the other on to further depravities until they take the final,irrevocable,step.
the sole redeeming quality I enjoyed about the film is the way it removed the veneer of eroticism and beauty from violence, and made it trite, which it is.
The ecological, pro-Native American theme seems more exploitive veneer than imaginative twist, and the direction lacks suspense or even much of a climax.
Beneath the veneer of mutual affection on display in Washington, Macron’s visit was marked by deep disagreements, including over climate change and the Iran nuclear deal.
In record time, he has managed to lose his veneer of competence, credibility, and steely leadership.
That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.
It is at moments such as these that we realize how thin a veneer our civilization may be.
The realities, meticulously hidden under a veneer of homogeneity, have always been too complex for even the most discerning of scholars.
And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.
The only notable exception, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, seems to have been appointed merely to provide a veneer of official commitment to the peace process.
Lacking convictions, he could be everything to everybody from new left to center with any socialist taint concealed by the industrialist-advisors who lent Schroeder a Blairite and Clintonian veneer.