Word: veneering
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...conniving Richard, drawing the audience into his calculated ravings. Kathleen A. Stetson ’03 also gives a stately performance as Queen Elizabeth, though Sergio Rafael ’05 is a bit stiff as Clarence. His unassuming presence may be intentional to create a guileless veneer, but he comes off as somewhat uncomfortable with the noble role...
...mantra in these parts. Its syllables merge into the murky, hypnotic murmur of PC-speak that might be called the soundtrack to Harvard life. Tolerance is a generous word, not particularly demanding on those who use it, because it leaves lots of room for uninterrogated prejudice under a brittle veneer of civility. Tolerance accommodates statements like, “I have no problem with gay people, I just don’t see why they have to be so in-your-face about it.” Or how about, “Homosexuality doesn’t bother...
...concerned about making sure the installations weren’t excessively ugly,” Kirschner says. “Alas, they don’t have a walnut veneer model...
...Swain says, she "turned from a Pollyanna into a Cassandra" as her research into a book criticizing racial preferences made her aware of the spread of what she calls "the new white nationalism," a form of racial extremism more dangerous than the Ku Klux Klan because of its veneer of erudition and mastery of the Internet. Groups such as former Klansman David Duke's National Organization for European American Rights and the National Association of White People eschew the discredited notion of white supremacy. Indeed, they don't claim that whites are superior to anyone else and may even...