Word: veneered
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...molars; and the "red of aggression" that appears in a slum child's eyes is easily confused with the "red of weeping." Naipaul is constantly turning things inside out--people's clothes, their bodies, their thought--until what is apparent is shown to be merely the comic strip veneer...
...American countries is less stark in Puerto Rico. Between the shacks and the skyscrapers lies a buffer zone of crackerbox concrete housing developments with a Volkswagen in every garage. Twenty years of industrial development as a self-governing commonwealth under American rule have created a large middle class whose veneer of prosperity conceals the extensive poverty that afflicts large sectors of the island's population...
...when both cello and audience are out of sight and the world-famous cellist sheds the veneer of the grande artiste, Rostropovich projects an idiosyncratic blend of energy and joie de vivre. As evidence one need only glimpse at the man after the master class, hulking like a Russian bear in his furry coat, dignified, prematurely gray and balding, with a protruding lower jaw, pulled along by his prize possession and constant companion, "Pooks." Pooks, the effete miniature dog who accompanies Rostropovich everywhere he goes, was insisting that they be fashionably early to the post-class reception...
...found its true from yet. Neither a paperback nor a resolutely bound hard-cover edition, it consists of a few pages, with an occasional misspelled word, tucked stiffly into a cardboard cover and secured by staples along the slender crease. It's a trial publication without the slick veneer that cajoles you into buying a book on sight...
...academic pursuits are the main topic of her conversations with a variety of regular guests at Harvard functions. They find her "extremely engaging" and likable, as one of them says. She is good at putting people at ease, but one observer sees "a veneer--she tries to appear calm but there is no inner peace...