Word: veneering
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...whom Madame Arcati accidentally materializes; and all three of the Condomines are passionately in love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when they mockingly meddle in the supernatural to gather color for one of Charles' books, they bring chaos crashing down upon themselves...
...book's Southern veneer, however, does not make it parochial. All the peculiar colloquial mannerisms reinforce an imaginative sense of Americana that makes no one a stranger to the world of this novel. Taylor's portrait of Memphis conveys the duality of life, desultory and crazy at alternate moments...
...Gallagher's last speech as a candidate on June 21 he urged his opponents to debate each other in pairs instead of the usual packs. Gallagher's proposal would strip the veneer from some of the slicker candidates. The liberal legislator may not have been able to compete himself, but hopefully his attempts to make this a race among people rather than media consultants will not be lost...
...1960s, when the space-age future finally arrived, futuristic imagery was abandoned. Drive-ins died out, and fast-food restaurants became larger, more middle class. The new buildings were low slung, brownish, plastered with brick veneer. The exuberance of the late '40s and '50s architecture was replaced by bland pseudohomeyness in the '60s and '70s. Bad good taste supplanted good bad taste...
According to Haddad, that fight has caused cracks in what he called Lebanon's "thin veneer of civilization...