Word: veneering
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Alcázar’s performance is masterful and nuanced: reptilian malice shines through the veneer of ingenuous dismay that characterizes most of his scenes with Leguizamo. And yet, moments of genuine compassion shared between Vincio and his young son keep the viewer forever guessing at his true nature...
Maybe we can make ours readable by stripping away the veneer of intellectual insight and high-minded criticism, and just flat-out screaming about our emotional reactions to various artworks...
Several centuries later, José González, a young musician of Argentinean descent raised among the fjörds of Sweden, embarks on a similar aesthetic odyssey with his debut album “Veneer...
...surprise appearance on the album’s resonant closing track, “Broken Arrows,” seems to mark out a kind of elegiac ending to the extended daydream of “Veneer...
...Take the cover image, for example. It depicts a scene in the book where Delisle visits the "Children's Palace," a school for gifted children. He depicts row upon row of near identical girls playing an accordion concert with rictus grins across their face, "as though the thin veneer of their smiles were proof that these young prodigies were flourishing here." Yes it looks horrible, but no more so than one of those frightening children's beauty contests made popular in the southern U.S. Or on a broader scale, Delisle does an outstanding job of depicting North Korea's relentless...