Word: veneering
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...good points. Perfect consistency may be too much to expect, however, from our veneer of civilization. The Vick case isn't about children or farming; it is about suffering and death as entertainment. A modern gladiator, of all people, ought to know what's wrong with that...
...funny, certainly; bizarre, yes; but also a far cry from the formal, unbroken Surrealist veneer of, say, Luis Buñuel’s early films. Another sequence early in the play featured a parodic ballet to grandiose music, about on par with the kind of humor you would see in a commercial during the Super Bowl. If anything, the show was unpretentious...
...critical to our positioning and our commitment to our customers," adds Myers. The design of Origins' freestanding stores also reflects the brand's philosophy: they now feature low-energy MR16 lighting that is complimentary for applying makeup, an abundance of air-purifying live plants and wood veneer from managed forests...
Ultimately, he is the only one who comes to grasp the chasm between appearances and reality in the whorling world of New York high society. He begins to see the real Murray behind the sententious veneer, and is the only one with the courage and acumen to cry out: “The Emperor has no clothes...
...holiday newsletter—both have a long history. A product of the Victorian period, our current Christmas cards first came into vogue in 1840s England. From the very beginning, they often included a newsletter. The entire Victorian project of keeping up appearances and maintaining a veneer of respectability made it inevitable that this newsletter was a heavily amended summary of the events of the year, of course interspersed with all of the proper holiday pleasantries...