Word: veneering
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...then delivered a speech similar to one I have heard I-don’t-know-how-many-times. It is the tale of an America whose idealism is but a veneer covering more sinister motives, an America whose history is stained by acts of aggression and imperialism, an America governed by a handful of cynical men in love not with democracy but with power...
...less about the sanctity of the ABM treaty than the harm its demise might do to Russia's standing in the world and his image at home. Analysts in most capitals, including Moscow, think he's bargaining for everything he can get before he says O.K. He needs the veneer of equal dialogue, and the sweeteners could be costly--no NATO expansion; keeping quiet as Russia continues economic ties to Iraq and Iran...
...last thing that anyone in the government, anyone in law enforcement and above all any of McVeigh's surviving victims could abide was anything that might give him satisfaction or lend his theories of moral equivalence a veneer of legitimacy. They wanted to take away his platform. Most were ready for him to die, and the execution had the makings of an awful circus: 1,600 reporters were booking rooms in Terre Haute, Ind., for next Wednesday. "Good morning, America, it's time to kill a killer, but first, this is Today." All those cameras, all those talking heads...
Sara B. Heller ’02, the director of this production, chose the musical because it contains unusual richness and complexity beneath the veneer of simple (though often hilarious) entertainment. Into the Woods explores many relationships: between siblings, between lovers, between friends, between parents and children. As such, it is highly accessible to a wide audience. Especially relevant for the Harvard student community, however, is the message that all lives are interconnected, and that actions will have residual effects on others. Into the Woods also contains the poignant message that fleeting parent-child relations should be treasured while still...
...some-such as the ever-dour Doris Lessing-charm is merely a wasteful veneer pasted over more meaningful pursuits. "What is charm then?" she asks and then replies: "Something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away." Nor is she alone in this conviction. "Charm always issues," the choreographer Paul Taylor once commented dismissively during a Harvard lecture, "from some terrible emptiness...