Word: veneered
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...Rabe's tone is pejorative, like that of a prosecuting attorney who is pressing play goers to confess that all men are bloody-minded beasts. There is no court of appeal in The Orphan. God is dead, absolute power has produced absolute corruption and society is a cracked veneer of hypocrisy...
...tried to make people sit back and think what boxing is really saying," Costin said last night. "Boxing's intent is to deliberately maim. It upsets me that we can justify brutality through the veneer of referees and rules...
...lustrous, easily worked hardwood of black walnut trees is prized by furniture manufacturers the world over, mainly because it can be made into a thin veneer to cover less expensive woods. But the supply is short. Every year woodsmen in the U.S. cut about 11 million more board feet than mature in state and commercial nurseries. As a result, logs from a large, top-quality black walnut tree can fetch as much as $15,000 nowadays-obviously well worth a midnight foray by tree rustlers...
...auto mufflers, they have to move too quickly to bother with the valuable branches (which are used for furniture legs and braces) or roots (which are made into gunstocks). All they want are the trunks, which they winch onto a truck and sell to sawmills to be processed for veneer...
Finch and Jackson are clever enough to fight their way through the musty veneer. Finch is both salty and regal, gently flamboyant without ever becoming grandiloquent, a trap that Rattigan's script sets for him at every turn. Because Jackson is an eminently subtle actress, her Emma Hamilton is not merely a creature of fire, but a vulnerability imperfectly concealed beneath layers of scar tissue. The supporting actors are stalwart, except for Michael Jayston, who suffers from a kind of congenital insipidity...