The sale is valid on the following colors: white, birch veneer, black/brown, and brown ash veneer.
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But what really has them appalled is the way Trump took the appeals they used to make with at least a veneer of subtlety, and tore that veneer right off.
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The new Echo is more compact and comes with colors that will blend in with your furniture more easily: Oak veneer, sandstone fabric, charcoal fabric, heather gray fabric, walnut veneer, and silver.
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For a final step, Dr. Apa made sure the veneer was as flush with my tooth as possible and that my bottom teeth weren't hitting the back of the veneer at all.
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That show, however, applies a fictional veneer to the coupling.
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Alaa opened the door of his modest brick veneer home.
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But underneath this glossy veneer is a truly ugly core.
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The imagery is having this veneer of accuracy and authenticity.
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MLMs, as they're known, often have a veneer of respectability.
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But Riyadh, despite its seemingly shiny veneer, is in trouble.
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Underneath that shiny veneer are a lot of engine pieces.
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Europa Park is like Disneyland stripped of its commercial veneer.
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And as a collective, they had an almost mystical veneer.
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This album has the veneer of rebellion, but only that.
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Beneath this veneer of multiculturalism, however, was a darker reality.
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Or at least give Putin's initiative the veneer of consent.
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The longer she lingers, though, the more this veneer fades.
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The wood veneer is so well done, it appears synthetic.
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Leninism was simply the 20th century veneer for Russia's expansionism.
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As the Storm raged, cracks appeared in Zen's calm veneer.
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Stylistically, his stories strip off the soothing veneer of realism.
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I think the veneer of the term "alt-right" that was intended to present fascist and white supremacist politics in a more kind of middle-class, respectable veneer been seriously tainted, at least for now.
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"There's no veneer or pretending to be something else," he said.
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More often it does it digitally, with a veneer of deniability.
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Through this veneer of political correctness, Trump cuts like a knife.
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The thin veneer of his good name seems ready to crack.
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There, beneath the veneer of adoration for Vladimir Putin, cynicism reigned.
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The innate exclusivity is wrapped in a veneer of non-exclusivity.
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Elected autocrats maintain a veneer of democracy while eviscerating its substance.
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The new fashion in authoritarianism requires preserving a veneer of democracy.
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There was finally a whisper of vulnerability behind the polished veneer.
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If you look carefully, you can see cracks in the veneer.
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Trump's ideological sympathies lie with Putin's autocracy and its democratic veneer.
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The veneer mill that once employed 250 people is long gone.
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The concerto's four movements have a slightly ironic, Neo-Classical veneer.
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It can give veneer of startup cred to brands like Jet.
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Mr. Trump's election just ripped the polite veneer off American politics.
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Back then, American TV shone with a veneer of peak optimism.
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Kip Howlett is the president of the Hardwood Plywood Veneer Association.
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Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant's veneer starts to crumble.
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The veneer of modernity barely conceals regressive and racist social attitudes.
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Neon, chrome, veneer; historical typography, the New York of the past.
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The marble veneer waterfall countertops add to the trailer's luxurious appearance.
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The cabin is lined with rich leather and custom wood veneer.
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And he will stop at nothing to maintain his veneer of invincibility.
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That action-packed AAA veneer, though, belies the game's more profound underpinnings.
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It's the good ole boys club with a spiritual veneer of 'brotherhood.
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For environmental reasons, Apple created a custom timber veneer from recycled wood.
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"trollish imputation" that bigotry is only a veneer for the "politically scared"
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But behind that dazzling veneer, Robbins guards his empire with intense secrecy.
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Inside and immediately outside the stadium, there was a veneer of normalcy.
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Often, the very mention of AI gives an undeserved veneer of credibility.
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They are made from wood veneer and have copper switches and knobs.
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It's a beautiful shell, a veneer that crumbles under scrutiny and dissection.
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Republican arguments for coal have, historically, had a veneer of cost-consciousness.
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This veneer of innocence is every bit as evident in his prose.
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But a veneer of acceptability has started to settle on the sector.
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But, as in the other controversies, that veneer quickly began to slip.
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Freedom and honesty characterise the Berlin recordings, the veneer of masquerade abandoned.
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The key for Moscow was to create a veneer of plausible deniability.
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People don't like doping because it cracks sports' delicate veneer of fairness.
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Nonetheless, the Kremlin needs the elections to retain a veneer of legitimacy.
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The kitchen has quartz countertops, gray veneer cabinets and stainless-steel appliances.
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Yet the agency lost its veneer of independence under the Obama administration.
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The interior is luxuriously appointed with beige leather seats and wood veneer.
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That upbeat message, fanciful then, has now lost any veneer of plausibility.
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An envelope of mirrored stainless steel will give it a glistening veneer.
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After a while at Sitmonchai, Rittidet's shy veneer slowly began to crack.
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Beneath the state's progressive veneer lies a dark and surprisingly contemporary history.
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You are trivializing major issues by giving them a veneer of glamour!
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Like Bogotá, Aspen withholds histories of violence beneath a veneer of nature.
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Extreme caution at checkpoints Checkpoints and barriers provide a veneer of security.
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She described the space as a welcome counterpoint to Singapore's polished veneer.
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In sufficiently complicated times, everything takes on a veneer of easy metaphor.
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But it hasn't taken much to puncture the veneer of campaign comity.
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Meet My Veneer In my case, Dr. Apa suggested bonding for the tiny indent in the middle of my left tooth (since it was so minor) and a veneer for the more substantial chip in my right tooth.
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But when Hunter discovers she's pregnant, that placid, marble veneer starts to crack.
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They admire his attempts to crack and peel away that veneer of politesse.
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The turntable will be belt driven, and naturally, it'll have a wood veneer.
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What he says smashes the veneer of unity in Zimbabwe's state security apparatus.
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In doing so, she finds the secrets Sylvie's been keeping under her veneer.
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Whatever veneer of judicial impartiality existed before this week was already very thin.
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"None of the Republican amendments have the faintest veneer of bipartisanship," he added.
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Manafort had managed to impose a veneer of Beltway respectability on the campaign.
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The ceiling is supported by a steel I-beam with a wood veneer.
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Yet, behind Rosselló's veneer of tweets and countless TV appearances was a charade.
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All of this veneer and everything is to make him look the fool.
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Victor fakes his way through the encounter with a veneer of condescending courtesy.
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Don't be lulled by the legalistic veneer offered by Trump's team on Saturday.
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When I peel back the veneer of guilt, there is anxiety, simmering darkly.
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Someone tell the V.A. A veneer of seriousness cuts down on the fun.
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It was like there was a shiny veneer over most of the city.
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And the veneer of wordplay it's coated in is no armor at all.
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Its veneer is serviceable — lever rather than screw — but its intent is not.
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In Germany, he had experimented with wood bending using veneer strips and glue.
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Adding a veneer now would cost at least an additional $250,000, he said.
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Beneath their sexy and dangerous veneer, Liu-Wong's paintings are quite morbid, too.
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But underneath the organization's beneficial veneer lies many secrets and conflicts among its members.
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These are moments of pure propaganda where the veneer of cultish religiosity wears thin.
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The role of the non-Communist groups is to add a veneer of democracy.
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In both, the polished veneer of humanness haunts us with what festers just beneath.
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The occasional crack in the veneer can help people see what's real about us.
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But he hadn't yet seen a draft, giving Cruz's speech a veneer of mystery.
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Democracy activists worry that Mr Kosanov, too, simply ended up providing a democratic veneer.
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Mostly, though, this album constructs its own vivid, garish, squeaky veneer, a tangible plasticity.
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Mr. Powell's speech also lent its anti-immigrant message a veneer of mainstream acceptability.
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Back home, he says, it hides behind the cool veneer of clean, sterile offices.
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A voice-purchasing PIN adds a veneer of security, but it&aposs hardly foolproof.
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Maybe that's a sign of the semblance of respect beneath this veneer of antagonism.
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By the time they met, however, cracks had started to show in Jesse's veneer.
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But beneath this veneer of hopeful progress and unsubstantiated claims lies a deepening nightmare.
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They got the veneer of legitimate inquiry without the risk of actually finding something.
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The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operates under the veneer of religion.
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The liberal veneer was appealing and the regime successfully leveraged the appearance of moderation.
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They've become part of a "toolkit" for large organizations seeking a veneer of innovation.
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But now he's given up even the veneer of any consideration beyond pure partisanship.
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"He's doing that to give the veneer of process," the aide said of Johnson.
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Today, the veneer of "body positivity" conceals an insidious desire for constant self-improvement.
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The veneer of being a billionaire doesn't go away just by crossing state lines.
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Beneath the veneer of his resounding victory, Emmanuel Macron has inherited a polarized country.
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That means everybody maintains a thin veneer of propriety, while slowly falling apart underneath.
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But this veneer of amiability is stripped away in the thrill of the kill.
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In the past, Mr. Putin proceeded cautiously, seeking to preserve a veneer of legitimacy.
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The White House scrambled to lend a veneer of coordination to Mr. Trump's outburst.
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Beneath a veneer of classlessness, the American class reproduction machine operates with ruthless efficiency.
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"A lot of comics hide behind a veneer to protect their insecurities," he said.
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Without at least a veneer of trust among diverse social groups, politics spirals downward.
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Her lyrics could be tender, but she concealed her vulnerability behind a sneering veneer.
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If there's one defining characteristic of Romney's political career it's his veneer of professionalism.
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But beneath the veneer of routine consultations, M.B.Z.'s feelings about Obama had changed.
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Democratic Socialism Simulator plays similar to Reigns, but with a more topical political veneer.
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There&aposs an unsettling atmosphere to it, an unease lurking beneath its polished veneer.
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Beneath its humorous veneer, it is a prickly, confrontational story about identity and belonging.
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I'll argue it's a lot deeper than just the veneer of talented comedic actor.
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Whatever veneer of unseemliness we associated with contemptuous public speech has been stripped away.
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Second is manufactured stone veneer, returning 97 percent of its initial cost in resale.
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But she stood out, because she in particular insisted on a veneer of virtue.
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L, has the potential to put a welcome crack in MoMA's high-polish veneer.
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It was only at the very end that my father's calm veneer finally evaporated.
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And that background scholarship might give a potentially evangelical project the veneer of objectivity.
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So aiming for a return to that level has a veneer of surface plausibility.
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For the procedure, they polished the front of my right tooth, placed the veneer to make sure it was the right fit and color, and then (for lack of a better term) glued the veneer to my tooth with a special cement.
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As "The Dogs of Littlefield" begins, a crack has already appeared in this civilized veneer.
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It's a controversial practice, but contained at least the veneer of assisting people in need.
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But the appearance of perfection in photos is, more often than not, just a veneer.
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Lady Bird, for all its DIY veneer, suggests a similarly capitalistic understanding of growing up.
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If there's one thing modern gaming consoles are missing, it's a stylish wood veneer finish.
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But underneath that calm, impassive veneer lies a well of self-loathing, doubt and resentment.
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But beneath that bucolic veneer of serenity lives an impoverished people often racked by violence.
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It is because they want to gain a veneer of legitimacy for their terrible business.
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I swallowed my pride, hid behind my faux "shopping dad" veneer, and bought the set.
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NY dentist Mojgan Fajiram usually charges around $4k per veneer, so it definitely adds up.
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For Kauffmann, the works' gaudy, flashy veneer is a perfect metaphor for the Valley Girl.
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They may be just a thin veneer away from merging or interacting in some way.
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Now, one major brand is trying to give the breakfast food a decidedly hip veneer.
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"He's going to be challenged for that veneer to be deconstructed a bit," explained Domingo.
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Additionally, beneath the veneer of strong GDP growth lie several worsening economic indicators, including inequality.
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We don't celebrate our heroes, we don't trust the veneer, we throw stones at them.
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Shorn even of its veneer of idealism, tolerance as an ideal will cease to inspire.
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In some ways they are worse, because they have this veneer of objectivity and perfectibility.
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The mere mention of Ms. Lockhart is enough to shear off Sheriff Franklin's folksy veneer.
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Will he issue more racist statements shielded in a thin verbal veneer of plausible deniability?
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By following the formal rules, Senate Republicans gave this fiction a veneer of formal legitimacy.
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The veneer of academic prestige has helped Mars and Tang institute unusual arrangements at Clinc.
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"America has lived a long time off its thin Christian veneer," Mr. Smith told me.
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In early 2013, elections for provincial councils took place, giving the rebels a civilian veneer.
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The fantasy of objectivity creates a pressure to maintain the veneer of impartiality and omniscience.
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But like other Chinese leaders recently, Mr. Li put a bright veneer over those concerns.
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Any meritocratic veneer is belied by the way capital wends its way through our world.
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Moreover, they illustrate how the veneer of memory often hides things that are much darker.
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In 1988, Illeana Sonnabend visited the artist's studio expecting to find the latest veneer paintings.
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"Genetics comes with this veneer of respectability and the public automatically thinks anything with the word 'genetics' is trustworthy and scientific""Genetics comes with this veneer of respectability and the public automatically thinks anything with the word 'genetics' is trustworthy and scientific," he continued.
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Indigenous participation was a point of pride, just like pageants today, providing the veneer of authenticity.
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The international human rights regime depends on global cooperation, a veneer of accountability, and American funding.
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That raw data will give him the veneer of plausibility he needs to do his job.
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Can scientists afford to lose their veneer of unbiased rationality by engaging in a political movement?
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For the first time in a long time, Saturday Night Live has a veneer of cool.
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No number of fishing stories can hide the sliver of erudition breaking through the folksy veneer.
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Linda (Beth Dover) exports a veneer of a Litchfield idyll in her heavily manufactured prison video.
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Beneath the noise and veneer of entitled Southwest Living, there's actually something extraordinary about this place.
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Dr. Apa charges $3,500 for a single veneer, and Dr. Fung starts his veneers at $1,600.
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"Certainly, the Halimeda is a living veneer that sits on top of the bioherm," McNeil said.
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You can feel tumultuous emotions bubbling under this veneer of propriety — it feels more violent, somehow.
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Land Rover says this is also its first use of "nautical veneer," so there's that, too.
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At home, his heroic veneer vanished, giving way to the reality of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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While Jared was normally a very confident P.T., this was a rare crack in his veneer.
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Kelly loves the cover and veneer of a general but won't live the integrity of it.
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From January through April, studios released fare aimed at adults, but without a veneer of prestige.
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The problem is when the reality of bias becomes concealed behind an algorithmic veneer of objectivity.
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It also includes a plywood and veneer manufacturing facility, a cogeneration facility, and a seedling nursery.
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Perhaps most notably, it gave ISIS a powerful veneer of legitimacy in the eyes of radicals.
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There's a sort of primal hostility all around us, hidden by a veneer of suburban politeness.
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IA: I find this veneer of progressive liberalism that's projected onto Lebanon to be a sham.
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And part of a chair, all of them covered by a thin veneer of blue flame.
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But sometimes the spies they send over here come wrapped inside the veneer of legitimate business.
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However, to the workers, under the bubblegum-friendly veneer, exists a set of complex social rules.
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The internet didn't even try to hide its enthusiasm behind a veneer of snark this time.
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Trump scraped all the gold veneer for this event, and his performance was raw and uninhibited.
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By the time Sunday's election took place, only the thinnest veneer of democracy remained in Venezuela.
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That democratic check on the president's war-making authority, however, has turned into a thin veneer.
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The only way you could tell I was wearing tights was by their slightly glossy veneer.
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Beneath the veneer of star power and nostalgia was an unattractive matchup between two ineffectual teams.
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But once a guest is invited onto the tribe's land, that intimidating veneer slides right off.
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In the podcasting era, reporters increase their credibility by peeling away the veneer of polished authority.
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The sharp tit-for-tat stripped away the customary veneer of diplomatic niceties during public remarks.
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Crackling underneath Crazy Rich Asians' opulent veneer is a complicated story about identity and American assimilation.
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That leaves Mr Prayuth ever more dependent on the veneer of legitimacy provided by the king.
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Start-ups rarely drop the veneer of perpetually "crushing it," no matter how ugly things get.
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To identify good veneer, look for tables with clearly-labeled core interiors, like kiln-dried hardwood.
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That puts a veneer of accountability on the whole enterprise, giving unelected central bankers some cover.
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Place 34 Getting to know Prague beyond its tourist veneer took effort, insider tips and luck.
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But the mainstream art world, despite a well-advertised veneer of diversity, still barely even tries.
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The veneer of process and rationale over the latest travel ban cannot conceal its fundamental malice.
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But Mr. Carsen has more in mind than giving the opera an early-20th-century veneer.
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If you like overstuffed costume dramas with a veneer of literacy layered over debauchery, latch on.
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But Rwigara's supporters say this is a veneer masking a lack of real opposition and freedoms.
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Fixed-income traders have been drawn to Egypt's high interest rates and veneer of authoritarian stability.
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It's the company that wants to track your sleep under the cute veneer of Pokémon characters.
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They are simply a veneer behind which a crime is occurring: the great American tax heist.
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Manufactured stone veneer leads all renovations with a nearly 96% return on investment in resale value.
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In fact, hiding behind a civilized veneer in your support of fascism I consider more dangerous.
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But her guitar playing is too sharp for that, crunchy and blistering with a soft veneer.
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And so his team got to work, taking a mold of all my teeth, which would be used to create the veneer, and then snapping what felt like hundreds of pictures to make sure they could create a veneer that matched the color of my tooth exactly.
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" McCain called the contradiction between Ivanka's denial and the Times report "the first crack in her veneer.
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Sometimes it's a rich, well-dressed blonde woman who hides her prejudices behind a veneer of politeness.
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Most presidents seem to have some sort of veneer meant for the public face of the office.
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The anxiety, at least, I could hide behind a veneer of accomplishment, social graces, and deflecting questions.
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Yet keeping up a Soviet veneer may not be easy without jobs, particularly as industrial production plummets.
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Similar uncertainty marks most of the other Trump proposals that have a veneer of "good government" intent.
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My Veneer Experience Sitting in a chair in his office, I wasn't sure what to expect next.
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She ridicules his masculinity, hoping to crack his veneer of civilisation and unleash the violent brute inside.
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Because it can be masked with a veneer of legality, it can be cloaked with plausible deniability.
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The feminist veneer just can't mask the fact that no one involved in this movie is trying.
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But perhaps this is a good opportunity to really delve beyond the nostalgic veneer of The Notebook.
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Activists say this legal veneer hides an illegal trade that encourages and coordinates the poaching of elephants.
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" But the true goal, according to the Senate, was to give those ads "a veneer of lawfulness.
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A pliant court, by contrast, can provide a veneer of legitimacy for an authoritarian leader's power grabs.
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For jihadis, religion, or rather their bastardized version of it, provides a useful veneer for this worldview.
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The clinics often claim to be doing clinical trials, giving a veneer of legitimacy to their work.
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Wendy, too, begins to see the cracks in both Chuck's and Axe's veneer in the third season.
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Sharon, played by Ms. DeVido with a veneer of sardonic toughness covering an innate sensitivity, pushes back.
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The wood has a smooth veneer so it's very easy to wipe clean with a damp cloth.
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The houses for smaller dogs are made with a veneer finish, so they can't be used outside.
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Basically, its veneer of bohemian (it is on cool East Sixth), and its prices creep toward bourgeois.
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But under this odd couple veneer, the two "nationlects" (as Murphy dubs them) are like lovesick teenagers.
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"Proof" may be beside the point — just a veneer of reason over our naked jostling for power.
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The entire 77th Street front would butter itself over with a thin veneer of sober gray limestone.
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It's a reminder that underneath Ms. Grande's veneer of calm and certainty pulses doubt, anxiety and heart.
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Willis, like most Chris Messina characters, hides his sensitive soul beneath an extremely thin tough-guy veneer.
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"Once the veneer comes off, a lot of people in the middle will shy away," he added.
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Armajani has drawn a line with correction fluid across each word, creating a veneer that obscures script.
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"I think sometimes you have to take off the veneer and go back to basics," he said.
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He gave dermatologists free samples to distribute to their patients, providing the veneer of a medical endorsement.
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He has given a team that seemed to have lost its shine the veneer of a champion.
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I'm rooting for the Oversight Board because it could give the social network a veneer of accountability.
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He was as smart as Warren, minus the scholarly veneer that can keep people at arm's length.
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These are the people who could begin to crack the veneer of the president's so-called power.
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Cuomo is off-duty in a baseball cap, the veneer of his suit-and-tie professionalism shed.
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" There is no veneer in this administration of "compassionate conservatism" or of promoting a "culture of life.
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But the argument that the literary part of reality literature is a legal veneer doesn't fully square.
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In spite of his veneer of lifelong hat-tipping, Tiepolo was also a delightful, wayward, wily perversity.
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But I don't think what I'm doing is a veneer or a trick or sleight of hand.
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On Mr. Olsen's walls, wood veneer wallcovering from Maya Romanoff mimics the straw marquetry favored by Frank.
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There is the veneer of a pop art smile on Warhol's face, because Warhol created the image.
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We know that the veneer of PR is thin, and a public apology only goes so far.
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They wanted to come out from the veneer of social media, and no longer just be avatars.
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It has the high-gloss veneer of a cable drama and a cast filled with familiar faces.
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Instead, it seems intended to give a veneer of respectability to Washington's continued support for the Hernández regime.
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Though a politically correct approach to beauty politics reigns in public discourse, the veneer is a thin one.
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I expected a journalism procedural with a heavy veneer of smugness on the virtues of the old media.
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This past August Digiday explored how influencers use bots on the platform to gain a veneer of popularity.
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Even before any ghost-y shit happens, it's clear that tensions bubble under the Crane family's sunny veneer.
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While algorithms have a veneer of objectivity, researchers have pinpointed how human decision-making can re-enforce biases.
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The steep entry fee is is part of the high-gloss veneer of selectivity favored by the organization.
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Neoclassicism was "a mode of architecture which was little but veneer," wrote the critic Lewis Mumford in 1924.
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But then they threw aside that veneer of civility and started aiming well-prepared zingers at each other.
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These families have a veneer of unity but, underneath, they tend to be fractured by lies and betrayals.
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Creating a veneer of expert consensus for policy typically has far more impact than large-scale campaign spending.
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At this point, Hardy's allegations have barely made a dent on the slick veneer of Seacrest's public image.
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But a meeting with a sitting US President would give Pyongyang a new veneer of respectability, experts said.
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To me, the sound is the only thing that's authentic and the rest is sort of a veneer.
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Impeachment has sometimes been used to give a veneer of legitimacy to an ouster that has already happened.
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It was the crack in the veneer of him whom they believed to be a solid, upright player.
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There's a lot of classical training in it, but it's very much embedded underneath a more naturalistic veneer.
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The veneer of security is dependent on the delicate balance of powers with a presence here. Americans. Kurds.
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Madame Tussauds parades his waxwork through the streets of New York in a veneer-white, top-down convertible.
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It is a carefully applied veneer, one that predated Tyler's death but has taken on additional importance since.
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You bring up an interesting point about how at least Charles Murray has the veneer of scientific legitimacy.
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Covered in a veneer of dust and sweat, we convened at a nearby pub for lunch and beers.
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It's not hard to imagine a compliant judiciary and Senate giving merit a veneer of legitimacy to them.
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Lösener remains the lawyer who wrote the Nuremberg race laws, lending a veneer of legality to a crime.
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"Liberal values are not a veneer, masking a much less pleasant reality," Inglehart pointed out in an email.
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The moralizing about dress and behavior can be a setup for victim-blaming wrapped in a spiritual veneer.
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Once the veneer of impermeability gets cracked, it "breeds an anti-science backlash born of distrust," Cahalan writes.
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Nowadays these artifacts are largely just used to add a veneer of respectability to pre-existing tribal beliefs.
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In other words, they're mostly a sham meant to provide a veneer of democracy on an undemocratic system.
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Actually, a lot of Americans find the unrehearsed and clumsy veneer of the Trump administration to be refreshing.
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Beneath their silly sounding veneer, these words reflect a shift in our understanding of what food choices mean.
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KEVIN GLASS, ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOOL: They bring this absolute unvarnished honesty, without any veneer of political correctness, you know?
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It's got that 80s wood veneer feel, but the wood is dark enough that it doesn't look too retro.
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According to Houselogic, the average cost of refacing kitchen cabinets with real wood veneer ranges from $280,2800 to $9583,2958.
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The show makes its preoccupation with ripping off the wholesome veneer of small town life apparent from the jump.
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Steve Locke's family pictures are memories of extensive inherited community histories, presented through the ironic veneer of pleasant remembrance.
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If something looks like a piece of wood, it's not just a veneer, it is wood through and through.
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Mr. Whiteside's "New American Romance," originally performed over the summer at Vail Dance Festival, also had a secondhand veneer.
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Ford does it with a veneer of artistry, but in the end, the two of them are similarly amoral.
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What is left behind is a pervasive sense that beneath the veneer of civility, something wilder is always lurking.
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But at their best, worst reviewed videos inadvertently shine light on the cracks in Yelp's veneer of crowdsourced infallibility.
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It's Chipotle, but with better margins and the veneer of a sit-down restaurant with 4.5 stars on Yelp.
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His lawyers produced memos on self-defense that inverted the meaning of words to give a veneer of legality.
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They also argued that the veneer of dispassionate technology could hide the threat of discrimination at law enforcement agencies.
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The people who make podcasts seem well aware that they need the veneer of journalism to be deemed respectable.
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By appearing before the cameras, looking serious and speaking rationally, they add a veneer of normality to this administration.
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The paneling is compelling and cool, but it's beginning to curl and the substance behind the wood veneer stinks.
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I had a pair of tan chinos that matched the self-doubt barely contained under my emotionally muted veneer.
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For some it was a revelation; for others it was just another insincere blockbuster with a thin thematic veneer.
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Despite the blustery veneer, the clipped accent, and the military façade, the Major was masking a thinly veiled desperation.
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But look beyond the Bob Ross-meets-Banksy veneer and you'll see a much more complex system at play.
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Once cooked, the steaks are plunged into a pot of dip, coating the surface with a peppery, buttery veneer.
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"Beneath the veneer of a successful, well-to-do European nation there is something darker here," Mr. Peregin said.
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If a buyer's favorite tree is felled by lightning, its veneer can be installed to keep its memory alive.
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Despite his kindly veneer, the would-be maester directed most of his efforts to propping up an evil queen.
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The chairs are available in cherry or oak veneer from $4,100; a limited edition upholstered in hide, is $5,500.
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There's a veneer of legality and constitutionality in all they do, but the politics take place behind the scenes.
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While it lacks the EIC's habit of violence, modern China shares both its strategic ambition and its commercial veneer.
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In many cases, these #FlexOffenders use the veneer of a fancy lifestyle to sell mentorship, membership or online classes.
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"Persuasion" It is at the heart of Austen's work: What is going on behind the veneer that politeness demands?
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President Trump's call for an increase in military spending doesn't have even the veneer of this sort of guidance.
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For the guy who's all about appearances, Twitter provides the veneer of populist connection without the hassle of accountability.
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As the veneer of social decorum paled and then vanished, we sat around being entertained by progressive news shows.
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Even with its traffic, sprawl, and unrelenting smog, the iridescent veneer of celebrity lends the city a unique allure.
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Coerced confessions served no apparent intelligence-gathering purposes, but they did lend a legalistic veneer to the detention process.
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It means that the building's brick veneer facade and Home Depot picture windows cannot be altered without city permission.
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That generation cared about appearances and never dropped the veneer of fealty to the ideals of the 1979 revolution.
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How thin is the veneer of civilization in your mind, and how easily do you think it will crack?
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Under Pop's sleek veneer lay traces of the social and political pathogens that made the '21960s in America so jumpy.
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The NGO is afraid of getting targeted by gangs and militia groups operating with impunity beneath the city's vibrant veneer.
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Now it was Barack courting David, in the hopes that David could give Obamacare a veneer of bipartisan intellectual support.
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But the perception of gender equality among the rebels is just a veneer, the government and rights groups have said.
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You might think putting a helipad on Trump Tower would give the president's Manhattan residence an added veneer of affluence.
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Thus far, we've mostly seen it used by struggling companies to give their brands the veneer of forward-looking innovation.
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The dark veneer features a few holes for your cat to peel out of as well as a scratching post.
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The iridescence of its gold veneer is a last gasp for a burial style three thousand years in the making.
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In other words, this agreement lets China consolidate its gains with minimal interference and a veneer of good regional citizenship.
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Mr Page got to sound important and Mr Trump's campaign acquired a veneer of expertise which it never really had.
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Because my chip was in my front tooth, Dr. Apa and I decided that a veneer was a better option.
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This veneer of respectability is (or was, at least, before Charlottesville) one of the scary things about the alt-right.
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Orangetheory, the latest trend, comes with no veneer of the mystical, and little of the "wellness" jargon so popular now.
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Palm fronds, flowers, microphones, and other icons bubble up through the liquid veneer to offer more information about Francis' characters.
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But underneath the muddy veneer hid an admittedly fairly inferior game that was still quite genuinely worth getting psyched about.
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This is not a bawdy parody of a baking show, or even a striptease hidden behind a Food Network veneer.
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"These companies may hide behind the veneer of harm reduction, but let's be clear, their product is addiction," Herrera said.
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But beneath that veneer of hockey diplomacy between the two Koreas, North Korean hackers haven't stopped targeting their Southern neighbors.
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Cambodia relies on foreign aid and NGOs; to keep funds flowing, he must maintain at least a veneer of democracy.
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In fact, it may even be more insidious because it's tucked away behind the veneer of a cheerful, open office.
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Rubio's position fluidity is a character flaw, an ugly crack in the veneer of the made-for-TV Latino candidate.
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A wilderness outpost is attacked by an old enemy; a mentor is dead and the veneer of civilization is shattered.
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"That veneer of legitimacy is incredibly important," said Anna Borshchevskaya, an analyst at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy.
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The veneer of beneficence is somehow easier to see through in audiobook form, as evidenced by the works reviewed here.
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He tends to maintain a quiet presence, but he holds strong scientific views, and they often surface beyond the veneer.
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I know, we'll provide an exclusive to a network that throws us softball questions and provides a veneer of legitimacy.
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It's the basis for another tech veneer, this one layered over people's inability to find meaningful work for reasonable pay.
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Mostly, these rules have been, and continue to be, an attempt to establish a veneer of civility in uncivil endeavors.
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This is a lie, just like the MIBR One-Taps' respectable veneer, which makes them the shoe that gamers deserve.
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But beneath the veneer, there were cries for help from the kids, reports from neighbors and allegations of child abuse.
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He was pleased with the result: he had found a way to express his hot shame beneath a chilly veneer.
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How thin a veneer of deniability can Russia operate under before the United States becomes paralyzed and unable to respond?
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Its veneer of calm, even affluence, is at odds with the growing hatred against the group elsewhere in the country.
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They process raw or rough-cut lumber into plywood, and manufacture veneer panels, laminated wood, doors, window frames and furniture.
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His purge from Nissan and its partners has torn the veneer of unity off what had been a model alliance.
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Once you scratch through the veneer of political correctness, have attitudes to race in the UK really changed at all?
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But just like Katie's Instagram photos, behind that glossy veneer lies a different story, which is a lot more complicated.
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Mr. Lauren's nightclub, after all, so gorgeous on the surface, was really just a thin veneer inside an empty building.
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That whole nice Midwesterner who wants to bring us all together veneer sure doesn't take much to crack, does it?
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It had the veneer of a legitimate news story without having to abide by any of the conventions of journalism.
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The Skeksis know that civility is always a veneer that can fall away the moment status and survival are threatened.
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And their willingness to consciously use that veneer to mask their depravity make them scarier, and more fascinating than ever.
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It is the collapse of decency -- of the veneer of civility -- in the American system itself, and that is terrifying.
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But beneath the artificial veneer still lies the soul of a man who lacks compassion and is grandiosely self-promoting.
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So here are deviled eggs, made wickeder by breading and deep-frying the whites, crunchy veneer giving way to wobble.
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Any attempt to sell Mr. Trump's cruel immigration agenda with a veneer of humanitarian measures should be viewed with skepticism.
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Cambodians call them "firefly" parties, twinkling briefly during the electoral season to give a veneer of validity to the proceedings.
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"Arty veneer" became REVERENT, and I had to translate "Arty" to R and T to understand why this clue worked.
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On the walls, wood veneer wallpaper from Phillip Jeffries; the royal purple velvet love seat is from De Angelis, Ltd.
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Clearly in the middle of a psychological and emotional crisis, he keeps it together with a veneer of old world bourgeoisie.
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But, this veneer of comfort masks that biometrics are a form of surveillance hotly contested by privacy and civil liberties experts.
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All flies have protective hairs that—combined with a waxy veneer on the exoskeleton—help create a modestly water-repellant surface.
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Opinion: Saagar Enjeti The veneer of Joe Biden for president is being slowly unraveled to the point of imminent political collapse.
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Essentially, you get to know how the bride really feels about her in-laws, behind her veneer of Crest-whitened smiles.
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In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain peels back the veneer of the food world and exposes it to be a swashbuckling, wild place.
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Applying AI for these tricky problems paints a veneer of science that tries to dole out apolitical solutions to difficult questions.
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There was something neat about this very familiar, homey wood, this beautiful maple wood veneer, that he paired with high tech.
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They are convened to add a veneer of intraparty democracy to decisions made beforehand in secret, but those decisions are crucial.
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And the best way to brighten up that veneer of "balance" is with a fresh coat of meaningless stickers, of course.
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Some have long histories as healing modalities over multiple cultures and thousands of years — which gives them a veneer of legitimacy.
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And as perfect as their lives seemed, the veneer cracked and we're all getting a chance to see what lies beneath.
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"That veneer of objectivity is not as important as it once was because the times are so exceptional," the aide said.
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Like other ethically conflicted situations where Trump Jr. got involved, it gave the president, at most, a veneer of plausible deniability.
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He's the sedate sidekick who will add a veneer of business-as-usual as Trump ramps up his attacks on Clinton.
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As if Bentley motorcars weren't heavy enough, the British marque is letting customers install bespoke "stone veneer technology" in their cars.
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The elections thus put the veneer of unity on Iraq and the Kurdish region even though many disputes are not resolved.
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In the late 1970s, when the city was teetering on fiscal collapse, red signaled both solidity and a veneer of bravado.
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Hundreds of migrants have been convicted in this way, giving a veneer of success to an ineffective strategy for slowing migration.
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He still did not entirely believe this was happening — his lead in the polls, the new veneer of being taken seriously.
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A number of recent books, timed for the World Cup, adopt a similar approach and add a playful pop-philosophical veneer.
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Casting a protest vote is a tantalizing option for many: It gives you the veneer of moral purity while sacrificing nothing.
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I realized there was a deep undercurrent of sorrow running just below the fragile veneer of joy usually associated with pregnancy.
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We know that the initial awesomeness of the Intolerance set, the impressive veneer of American culture, disguise something much more dangerous.
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Gaga explores showing a crack in that public veneer, with a series of short videos that play between stage set-ups.
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That could actually make things worse because AI — and, by extension, its policy decisions — comes with the deceptive veneer of objectivity.
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An unpaid favor, while having the veneer of a generous helpful offer, opens the door to a multitude of uncomfortable scenarios.
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The newfound pride — often a brittle veneer over profound self-doubt — was not welcomed by many of those who encountered it.
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You can expect to pay under $500 for a less expensive veneer, but the higher-end ones go into the thousands.
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Now, brutalist buildings have the veneer of a grave for most people who don't know the history—austere, imposing, gray monoliths.
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The International Spy Museum likewise plays mind games with its visitors, presenting the veneer of objectivity without explicitly naming its biases.
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The immortal words "let them eat cake" stuck to her glittering veneer, though there is no proof she ever said them.
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The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.
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The whole scene rests on an ebony veneer base with a retrograde-hour movement that has an eight-day power reserve.
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This shoe is everything I love about the Day Glove flats, but with the polished veneer of a more traditional loafer.
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Detractors have accused Mousa of being a stooge candidate, sanctioned by the regime to give the election a veneer of legitimacy.
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The actresses give the luxury handbag behemoth a veneer of niche cool; the designer polishes his or her more outré edges.
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The government collects samples under the veneer of a mandatory health checkup program, according to Uighurs who have fled the country.
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But Wildlands quickly reveals itself as a husk, devoid of any life or meaningful story, with more veneer than actual substance.
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They may have the veneer of solidity, but in most cases, this merely hides simmering frustrations that have been forced underground.
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This is an inversion of the concept of Muzak, which was invented to give a pleasant sonic veneer to public settings.
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The early pattern of Trump foreign policy is to take actions that have the veneer of strength but are actually weak.
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What the military bosses really wanted this time, analysts say, was a weak civilian government, with the veneer of a democracy.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Despite a series of sexual abuse scandals stretching back decades, Australia's Roman Catholic Church displays a veneer of strength.
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Because it had the veneer of scholarship, it became a huge national story, and suddenly he was a major international star.
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The National Portrait Gallery needs to stop giving this destructive and irresponsible company a veneer of respectability it does not deserve.
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Others create shady services with a thin veneer of legitimacy to capitalise on the misfortune of those adversely impacted by the incident.
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Paired with the Darkstar's lilting but unsettled melodies, the album is another exercise in the resentful, disenfranchised reality fizzing underneath the veneer.
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They had the veneer of being healthy, though they most certainly were not, with all the traditional, miserable, mayo-drenched sandwich fillings.
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It's just that the veneer of ones and zeroes over a real face can rob a performance of its minuscule grace notes.
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Or worse, engage in some measure of serious disputation with all manner of horseshit, which also grants trash the veneer of credibility.
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Like other Como speakers, it's covered in either wood veneer or a glossy finish and includes a number of aluminum control dials.
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Hearing about something terrible happening carries the veneer of the surreal with it, and sometimes the helplessness of distance can go sour.
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There is a thin veneer of plausible deniability, because there really are other reasons we might be checking our notifications. Right. Sure.
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In its worst manifestations, "queer" is used as a substitute for a politic, the veneer of activism without the action, only utterance.
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"I got my ceramist to make a porcelain veneer that looked just like his tooth," New York dentist Dr. Lee Gause says.
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"Sometimes it's weird when my dad's asking questions and poking around," she says, her obvious affection shining through the veneer of annoyance.
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Zarif "has the veneer, the masquerade if you will, of being the sincere and reasonable interlocutor for the regime," the official added.
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At the time, lawmakers cloaked their efforts in a veneer of concern for the safety of women having abortions in the state.
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" Kucinich unleashed an extraordinary rant, putting a veneer of bipartisanship to the notion that "our country itself is under attack from within.
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The company also makes a nonfunctional dining table out of wood veneer ($326) that is held up by built-in faux chairs.
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They appear to be thick, heavy, freshly carved, lacquered and deeply polished, far more robust than the veneer pieces they actually are.
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And Sally (Sissy Spacek), the matriarch of this dysfunctional clan, is just beginning to fathom what lurks beneath its picture-postcard veneer.
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Not as much effort is made to give dishes an approachable French veneer, or to conceal unfamiliar local ingredients with technical wizardry.
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America, with its vast landscapes and frontier mythology, has always seemed ready to shed the thin veneer of Europe's so-called civilization.
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Hers is a surface-level feminist stance that gets more difficult to parse the deeper you go beneath that pop culture veneer.
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It's the midpoint between early cyberpunk fiction that actively engages politically, and the aesthetic veneer of 2016's Ghost in the Shell.
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The custom kitchen includes an island with walnut veneer, glass shelves, abundant storage and a library ladder for reaching all of it.
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It's one of the most accessible ways to get a buzz, while also carrying a veneer of something a little bit fancy.
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Despite its pristine veneer, the Olympic village has long been a playground for athletes looking to let off steam outside their events.
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Yet he does little to promote that side, some longtime friends say, because it cracks the veneer of strength that he relishes.
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It also shattered a veneer of civility and security in one of the safest and most highly developed countries in the world.
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Despite the friendly veneer, Ms. LaCapra forwarded one of Mr. Ford's emails to another person with the word "Creeper" atop his note.
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As in Gursky's photographs, equilibrium always acts as a thin veneer over the mounting chaos of overproduction, a bubble about to burst.
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Fifteen years on, Naypyidaw is a reminder that although the country now has the veneer of democracy, the military retains true power.
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Twelve-foot ribbons of elm veneer were looped on a table, awaiting application on furnishings for a Delta Hotels project in Manhattan.
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By empowering surrogates, Mr. Duterte empowers himself, using the increasingly complicit institutions of democracy, giving his authoritarian aspirations a veneer of legitimacy.
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"Travel has became an integral part of the runner's lifestyle that allows them to break through the touristic veneer," Mr. Gilligan said.
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Social media exacerbates the phenomenon, with prominent personalities engaging in increasingly juvenile Twitter feuds, often cloaked in the veneer of patriotic concern.
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That the memes look childish provides a veneer of acceptability — so that they can be shared without getting pulled from social networks.
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But after he failed to place in the top three in either Iowa or New Hampshire, he lost any veneer of invincibility.
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But his Teflon veneer showed cracks this spring when he seemed to be occasionally confused and at times more testy than usual.
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But while he'd add a nonpartisan veneer to the process, he could also be less predictable than a Pelosi loyalist like Rep.
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We've known this story for years now, and if there is anything that Luiselli wants to dismantle, it's our veneer of understanding.
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But this is a perfect example of how the veneer of political civility minimizes the true damage caused by extremists like King.
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We've seen cracks in the veneer, though, like at the Al Smith dinner where Mattis surprisingly made jokes at the president's expense.
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" A spaceship is "walled in imitation ebony veneer and floored with gray tiles"—a Mercedes crossed with a "rich man's private spa.
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The dialogue sometimes feels too cinematically coy, and there is a veneer of politeness to the prose even in moments of conflict.
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And hackers are used by state sponsors to further their own hostile objectives against enemies while maintaining a veneer of peaceful relations.
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Or is Wall Street still just a white man's world with a thin veneer of diversity layered on for public relations effect?
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Whenever "the thin veneer of Trump's vanity is challenged," Schwartz says, he overreacts—not an ideal quality in a head of state.
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The jokes and memes on their signs served as a veneer over a deep anxiety about the world they stand to inherit.
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The holidays should be a time when harmless, silly, joyful traditions can just be enjoyed, without a thin veneer of cultural superiority.
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The only thing unique about this latest proposal is that it lacks even the veneer of technological novelty, let alone "American genius."
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The problem, she continued, is that courts don't distinguish between legal procedures that are a veneer and those that are actually effective.
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Under the rubric of entertainment, his art brings together a veneer of cheerfulness and a large dose of rage and pain lurking underneath.
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Lately, phishing sites have also used TLS certificates, which are used to form an encrypted connection, to lend them a veneer of legitimacy.
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"It's very similar to Trump: They want to give this populist, consumer veneer to what they are doing, while doing exactly the opposite."
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It turned out this pseudo-somber tone was but a porcelain veneer over the fangs beneath, a filler in the snarling upper lip.
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Cynics are entitled to wonder whether these and similar efforts are merely a way of putting a modern veneer on an old structure.
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They may call themselves museums and some like the 14th Factory have the veneer of art, but let's be real, they're photo ops.
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To start, five fresh iterations of classic styles like the Chuck 70 silhouette and Thunderbolt, outfitted in a glittery veneer ideal for December.
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Rogue One suggests that war sometimes means willingly dying for the greater good, and it wraps that choice in a glamorous, heroic veneer.
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Research by Human Rights Watch exposed a damning pattern of unlawful police conduct designed to paint a veneer of legality over summary executions.
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Like Prime Day, it's a chance to showcase the immense power of Amazon with the veneer that this is inherently a good thing.
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No. He's exerting a very particular American privilege masked by a faux salt-of-the-earth veneer over a corporate, profit-based agenda.
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Here we see three sides of a room, two painted a sickly pink and the third with the veneer of a log cabin.
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Crucially, the company has also developed a transparent veneer that can be applied to existing windows, which opens up an enormous retrofit market.
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While lacking the veneer and production value of the modern day, these snapshots show a sport in flux, heading toward a brighter future.
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Sceptics wonder whether local groups do much more than give existing foreign weapons systems an Indian veneer just thick enough to get contracts.
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Naturopaths have been given the right to self-regulate in many parts of Canada, like Alberta, which gives them a veneer of professionalism.
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But most leaders now seek at least a veneer of respectability; elections have become more frequent and more regular; economies have opened up.
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"Beneath a veneer of a stability, the system is becoming ever more highly sprung," said Citi's Matt King in a note to clients.
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McMaster's process "had the veneer of something that Stephen Hadley or Condi Rice or Susan Rice would recognize," a former staffer told me.
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The Met cannot sustain itself by giving a superficially handsome veneer to works that should challenge us as much as they comfort us.
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The tax reform veneer is thinly papering over all the major GOP divisions on other issues, like government spending and the debt ceiling.
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The artist leaves it as a subjective experience, and removes the veneer of common history in favor of a fragment of personal experience.
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"Nature strips away the veneer we show one another every day, at which point people become who they really are," Burnett once wrote.
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"They have to pay for what they did to us," said Moses Mosonet, 83, a Nandi, his eyes coated with a milky veneer.
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First Words When a politician says something stupid, reporters are traditionally expected to mask their glee with a veneer of shock and disappointment.
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For decades, Chinese leaders have sported unnaturally black heads of hair, a look that symbolized unity and gave the party a youthful veneer.
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The government appears to be struggling to maintain a veneer of credibility in the face of massive support for the opposition, analysts said.
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Like the characters in his TV monologues, "Talking Heads" (probably his masterpiece), he lets us glimpse strong emotion coiling just beneath the veneer.
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There's certainly an argument that here the veneer of law serves mostly to obscure what is really an exercise in raw political power.
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But this would be a justice of wealth battling wealth, hammering through the veneer of trusts and shell companies to serve private ends.
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Others more critical of the plan saw it as a thin veneer to Chinese practices the U.S. had targeted through its trade fight.
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While the constitutional revisions in Russia are mainly being dictated by Putin, he is taking measures to give the process a democratic veneer.
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But in a tight race, the closing stretch could give a veneer of momentum to a candidate with relative strength among white voters.
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This is why some biographies drop the veneer of objectivity and unabashedly tell a life from a queer perspective, or a feminist perspective.
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And "Making History" strays even further, using a time machine as a vehicle for frat-house comedy with a veneer of social satire.
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Actually, its intricate fabric relies on what happens between the lines, on the depths of resentment and petty feelings underneath the social veneer.
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Despite the business-as-usual veneer, many passengers who boarded a Boeing 737 Max 8 on Tuesday brought qualms aboard with their suitcases.
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Ballard's novel argues, very effectively, the dystopian worldview that we're a selfish, scared species with only a thin veneer of civilization keeping us sane.
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He has furnished a veneer of coherence to it all by touting agency "originalism," a "return" of the EPA to its "basic" statutory obligations.
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But the statue's gleam has faded and its veneer is beginning to chip—much like the legacy of the Clinton era in the Balkans.
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But when Laurence meets someone who leads him toward a dark secret in his parents' past, the veneer of Lydia's perfect life starts cracking.
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Carnivores who have never experienced beef Wellington — tenderloin separated from its flaky cover with a veneer of mushroom paste — are in for a splurge.
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Under that veneer of coherence, however, antifa remains more chaos than movement, and not just because its adherents tend to resist authority on principle.
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And although once upon a time men like this got away with fomenting a culture of toxic masculinity, that veneer appears to be cracking.
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"This pseudo-medical veneer protects the user from feeling they are involved in an activity that is haram (forbidden by the Koran)," he says.
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"Bonfire" dwelt on how thin the veneer of civilisation had become: take one wrong turn and a glittering career can be turned to dust.
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And I hope to provide some kind of reassuring voice against that... [m]en's voices are given this veneer of authority that women's aren't.
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Cracks in the veneer have appeared and differences of opinion on policy and ideology seem to be turning into more of a daily occurrence.
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Increasingly, China is trying to use Interpol, an international body for police co-operation, to give its cross-border forays a veneer of respectability.
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It's the story of Graham, whom Meryl Streep appears to be playing with a tremulous veneer over a steely resolve, that drives Spielberg's film.
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Eschewing even the merest whiff of mahogany veneer or slightest hint of shag pile carpeting, the result is remarkably understated and very "new" England.
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Taking to the streets of New York, producers looked for people outside the set of veneer-wearing, glossy individuals typically seen on dating shows.
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The only difference now is that its veneer of moderation has eroded to the point where Democrats can&apost hide their extremism any longer.
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Finally, you can preserve the veneer of being interested in your friends and family's photos without actually having those photos clog up your timeline.
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Then there's Sally (Sissy Spacek), the matriarch of this dysfunctional clan, who is just beginning to fathom what lurks beneath its picture-postcard veneer.
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Pairing it with black lace-up boots and a veneer of bravado, he headed in the direction of Wall Street, to Harry's steak house.
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Here, TEN Arquitectos took the liability of the bleachers' underside and turned it into a marvelous asset: a sloping ceiling, paneled in wood veneer.
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Altogether, the investigations, hearings and prosecutions are dissolving the shiny veneer that Trump created to make himself look bigger, better, richer and more talented.
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The after-party of Comey and other intelligence officials becoming anti-Trump talking heads on CNN and elsewhere unmasked any veneer of impartiality. Reps.
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Wood veneer trims were aged at least 10 years and have been precisely processed with digital technology and microscopic checks, according to the automaker.
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Meanwhile, the broader residential real estate industry is seeing rapid growth in upstarts that are looking to add a tech veneer to the space.
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If you're even a fraction as anal as me, you'll be calmed simply by the veneer of order that a plan and goals provide.
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This frees members of Congress from debating difficult issues or taking politically unpopular votes, and allows the executive a veneer of virtually unchecked authority.
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The country manufactures and exports veneer, thinly sliced hardwood that is laid over produced wood to give furniture, cabinets, and floors a polished look.
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Consumer advocates say the changes have weakened the standards governing one class of financial professionals while giving an unwarranted veneer of trustworthiness to another.
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We kept asking how white conservative evangelicals could support Mr. Trump, who luxuriates in divisive rhetoric and manages only the barest veneer of religiosity.
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In "Trump, Twitter and the Art of His Deal," Amanda Hess writes: Twitter provides the veneer of populist connection without the hassle of accountability.
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Mr. Mnangagwa's ascension to the presidency will cap a military-led campaign that his allies have tried to coat with a veneer of legality.
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Under scrutiny, Tech has retreated behind the opaque veneer of innovation and reminded critics of its importance to the global economy — all with impunity.
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We're standing on 220 centimeters of ice — a thin veneer that separates us from the deadly Arctic Ocean below — and the ice is trembling.
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Underneath that veneer, turbulence still reigns, making it difficult for him to overcome all of the obstacles blocking his path to the White House.
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Ms. Maurery has great fun with the character, a tricky part because Maria nearly always maintains a kindhearted veneer, even at her most venal.
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Behind the veneer of the Tiger Temple, a zoo run by Buddhist monks, was a business profiting from the illegal trade in tiger parts.
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Despite past periods of turbulence, including under Mao Zedong, both sides have more or less tried to preserve a polite public veneer of amity.
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But Mr. Trump's advisers worry about the hard reality — the developer with the tough-guy veneer was steamrollered by factions in the Republican Congress.
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Recalling the marooned English schoolboys in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," we are reminded that the veneer of human civilization is razor thin.
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Barry, an Irish composer inclined toward manic musical surrealism, strips the Wilde play of its debonair veneer and exposes a core of punkish rage.
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"Under his chipper veneer, I'm wary that Mourinho is likely the same antagonistic character, and I'm unsure I'll ever warm to him," he wrote.
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The news media often debated whether to cover their sparsely attended rallies, considering that any attention might grant the groups a veneer of legitimacy.
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There are those within the French club who worry that that sort of determination, in certain lights, can take on the veneer of desperation.
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Much of his work is about the power struggles between people who try to camouflage their mutual antipathy under the veneer of social graces.
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"It's a well-intended veneer that covers a horrible evil," an emotional Vicente said during the trial's third day in federal court in Brooklyn.
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And it's not just that the veneer of civilization is thin, as you put it, but it's also about the organizational power of societies.
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"[Harassment training] is often a veneer, or what I call symbolic compliance," said Lauren Edelman, a professor of law and sociology at Berkeley Law.
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Being a former politician, Mariah knows the importance of image and polish, and Woodard gives Mariah a sturdy veneer that conceals the smoldering rage beneath.
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The idea is there's something under that recent veneer of ice that is without any precedent, that had never been in contact with humanity before.
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But they maintain a consistently cool veneer, lacking the atomized violence of the music of Babbitt's European counterpart Pierre Boulez, who died on Jan. 5.
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But to focus solely on the veneer of fashion fantasy and its proximity to celebrity would have done a disservice to the designer's extraordinary life.
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For the final vote, two more Republicans joined the Democrats' push, not only guaranteeing Mr Northam's victory but affixing to it the veneer of bipartisanship.
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It's a transparent scheme, under a freedom-first veneer, to combat the popularity of the Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Reddit-backed Day of Action.
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The stuff we see on a race Sunday is merely the veneer atop a massive enterprise of globetrotting logistics, intricate planning, and multinational team organization.
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Anyways, Drake is totally exactly the same person but with a sloppy veneer of faux-nice-sad-guy that overlays a deep undercoat of misogyny.
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A humble veneer cannot conceal China's pride in its own success over the past four decades, even if the past few months have been turbulent.
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Part of the appeal of pop music has always been the veneer that coats it, that makes it a slick, glossy mirror to our lives.
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The Family Research Council isn't content to oppose homosexuality on religious grounds; instead, it uses pseudoscience to give its homophobia a flimsy veneer of objectivity.
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The film spoke to the social and sexual anxieties of teenagers in the 1970s, lathered in the comforting veneer of a more stable, safer time.
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Some rights activists and legal scholars have expressed concern the new detention system will merely entrench and extend previous practices under a veneer of legality.
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Trump fired Comey late Tuesday just hours after receiving Rosenstein's formal recommendation, which attempted to give the firing a somewhat less raw and political veneer.
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Eichner and other queer voices on Twitter pointed out that despite a veneer of acceptance and change, Hollywood still has a real problem with gayness.
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Its "state" is in many ways a far nastier reproduction of previous autocratic regimes, overlaid with a brutal "Islamic" veneer that most Muslims find repulsive.
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Donald Trump, through a campaign of racist incitement against minorities, and Mexicans in particular, has stripped away the veneer masking the passions driving that debate.
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My Reflect bottle has survived its fair share of hikes, with a few indents from rocky falls and the veneer of its bamboo long faded.
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In sum, the president has embraced a national security establishment strategy for Afghanistan with a veneer of Trumpian flourishes that do not alter its essence.
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As a Stark, she conferred a veneer of legitimacy upon House Bolton, which is otherwise despised in the North and probably most other places, too.
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In many cases, these #FlexOffenders, as the account likes to call them, use this veneer of a lifestyle to sell mentorship, membership or online classes.
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The thin stone veneer under the windows remains, along with the awning's promise of "seafood, steak, pasta, mofongo," all of which the menu faithfully delivers.
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They know politics is a contact sport, and they don't allow the thin veneer of "norms" to stand in the way of taking down opponents.
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"The looming concern is that an opaque scoring algorithm substitutes the veneer of quantitative certainty for more holistic, qualitative judgement and human culpability," Bowman wrote.
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As evidenced with Donald Trump's election, nostalgia is also a powerful way to cloak racism and sexism in the gauzy veneer of patriotism and prosperity.
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In the two Michigan plants that remain open, employees create metal components for furniture sets and conference tables in dozens of shades of wood veneer.
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It would be nice if, instead of hiding behind the veneer of fiscal competence, congressional Republicans finally just admitted that they're no better than Democrats.
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But lurking beneath a veneer of unity was growing evidence in Warsaw of fissures within Europe that go beyond its highly visible split with Britain.
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By leading the GOP intransigence in this matter, Grassley is losing the reasonable, non- ideological veneer that has served him so well for so long.
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The countertops are a thick artificial stone with laminate in some areas and oak veneer in others, as well as a stainless-steel appliance garage.
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Yet the painter knew that Beth B's talent for revealing the melancholy truths beneath life's placid veneer was learned at the foot of the master.
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" The Citigroup base case is a "veneer" of a deal, with "chances of a deadline roll-over, tariffs-limbo remains and continued China-containment strategy.
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For all that, Tripoli has a veneer of calm and sophistication, even prosperity, that is at odds with the image of a war-torn nation.
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Yet underneath the veneer of plexi-glass skyscrapers and the historic shipping yards of the Ville-Marie, it's also been described as Canada's sex capital.
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This composite is actually a veneer of sorts but one that is added in the mouth in real time and not premade by a ceramist.
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In Veytsman's practice, re-contouring and bonding ranges between $500 and $700 per tooth whereas a premade veneer would be closer to $3k per tooth.
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And anything that is consumer related had better have a lot more going on than just a veneer of high-tech — or a digital sheen.
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As Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Campbell would have each pointed out, our modern civilization is but a veneer, that is often quite transparent.
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A police state with a democratic veneer, Ethiopia is buffeted by violent clashes in diverse ethnic enclaves where activists are demanding political and economic reform.
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"The idea of pulling off the veneer and seeing what lies beneath has always intrigued me," she told Konow, the author of "Reel Terror" (2012).
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And while double-sided tape is included to allow you to stick the device to a tabletop, I wasn't willing to risk damaging the veneer.
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We should expect the veneer of cooperation to fray over the next few months, especially if the investigation moves closer to the president's inner circle.
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The use of ironic, juvenile antics is something commonly seen on the fringes of the right because it allows a veneer of deniability, experts said.
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Dr. Keyworth became one of the most visible champions of the president's vision, giving it, for all its futuristic dimensions, a veneer of scientific credibility.
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"Giving General Secretary Xi the unearned title of 'President' lends a veneer of democratic legitimacy to the CCP and Xi's authoritarian rule," the report said.
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She is the narrator, the commentator, the exhumer who forces herself to dig out the often painful truth beneath the veneer of normality and respectability.
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The cracks in Claire's veneer of perfection become more and more obvious, until it's clear that she, like Fleabag, is just doing her fucking best.
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My Inland Empire skill, which allows him to see through the veneer of the world and into the sepulchral spaces beyond mortal knowledge, kicked in.
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When Mr. Trump veered away from orthodoxy during the transition, some of his advisers quickly tried to recast his comments with a more conservative veneer.
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One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
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One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
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Salvini's brazen politicization of the issue, critics say, has added a veneer of legitimacy to deep-seated prejudices, and emboldened racists to act more assertively.
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For many Democrats, preserving a veneer of "sophistication" or "worldliness" — a Europeanized, blasé approach to sex and sexuality — was central to their defense of Clinton.
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Hawke usually retains the voice and mannerisms of someone who never quite ditched his youthful bravado, giving him a veneer that guards a deeper vulnerability.
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Sure, Apex is a free game, but that makes it even easier to walk away when the shiny veneer of a new experience has worn off.
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Calling secretaries "administrative assistants" was supposed to make our work more dignified, but it often feels like a thin veneer over a contempt for women's work.
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In a video game, the proverbial nuts and bolts, the machinations of the AI, are hidden beneath a veneer of animation and sound, the surface presentation.
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Despite the scientific veneer of his study, van Andel says, the experiment was repeatedly rejected by reviewers—some of whom saw it as a lewd joke.
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Beyond the bloody veneer, however, is a much deeper meditation on PTSD and what it's like for soldiers to transition back to civilian life after war.
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We flew out to Arizona to mourn with his family — Bill was sweet and a bit of a sentimental mush beneath his oftentimes macho Southern veneer.
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From the beginning, the prestigious magical school, headed by the gaudy Madam Mumblechook and the deranged Doctor Dee, reeks with a veneer of opulence and pretension.
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In 2012, naturopaths in Alberta became a self-regulated profession (they're self-regulated in other parts of Canada, too) which gives them a veneer of professionalism.
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Behind the families' carefully crafted veneer of a public image, there's ugliness and tragedy, as well as the unseemly machinations that hold the whole dynasties together.
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Before you assume this was a radical act of free speech, it should be noted that the intent was less than noble despite its democratic veneer.
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Freed has a veneer of wokeness that smacks of an industry used to shirking off responsibility for a toxic culture by referencing their wives and daughters.
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And there's this hard to break through veneer of words and frameworks and mathematics — but once you get through that, the concepts are actually really intuitive.
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In his chambers, Robert Leventer—who as a commissioner is essentially a judge in this court—sits before a wood veneer table covered with case files.
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This veneer may have acted like a shield, preventing the ice inside `Oumuamua from getting overheated and evaporating when the rock passed close by our Sun.
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We see the veneer of civility and order, and society goes on pretending everything is okay because we are afraid to witness what we have become.
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The CryptoRuble does appear to be blockchain-based, however, which gives it at least a veneer of decentralization and could help prevent things like online fraud.
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The tacky technicolor veneer of the show only makes these cruel twists of fate feel more unnerving, like we've been baited into a witch's gingerbread cottage.
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Then you've got these sort of yes men in West and Hayne who come and give this scientific-sounding veneer to hunches that law enforcement have.
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Johnson of the wrong party, a Democrat added to the Republican ticket in 1864 to lend a veneer of national unity to Abraham Lincoln's reelection campaign.
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Trump wants to dramatically redefine America's relationship to the Muslim world, and to dispense with the veneer of tolerance that America has employed since 9/11.
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This Monday of all days, I doubt there were many people who were deeply invested in peeling back the thin veneer of plausibility on this story.
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Devised and performed by the Mad Ones, it takes place in the teachers' lounge, and swiftly reveals the frustrations bubbling under a veneer of ingratiating politeness.
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Sony also went gold with the aesthetic for its new flagship Walkman, which is one hefty chunk of solid copper covered with a beautiful gold veneer.
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Although the conversion revitalized the food hall, it also brought claims of gentrification, as the market's working class character was overhauled with a shiny new veneer.
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The family's home, with columns and stone veneer, has a gated driveway posted with campaign signs for Mr. Trump and a large "Do not enter" sign.
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Back in the first season, when he was fixing her broken veneer and she was conveniently passed out on nitrous oxide, he divulged his true feelings.
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When Judge Amy Berman Jackson emerged into the courtroom through a door cut seamlessly into the wooden veneer of the wall, she commanded my full attention.
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So while Baume's introduction strategy relied on the kind of influencer culture beloved of millennials and Generations X and Y, it had an expensive, exclusive veneer.
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Ms. Belsare is elaborately stylish, but with such a heavy veneer of charming dignity that I could never get past it; Mr. Rajagopalan's manner is ponderous.
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The Washington Post notes that Trump has previously maintained a veneer of respect toward Pelosi because she acted as a buffer against impeachment for so long.
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As a man who is hiding who he really is from the world, it's appropriate that his seemingly perfect veneer would come crashing down around Thanksgiving.
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Those sources say that the company is seeking to identify how even GE's board was unaware of how deep problems ran beneath Immelt's veneer of confidence.
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"Ultimately, corporate America has never been shy to profit using the veneer of altruism — this is, after all, the root of concepts like "greenwashing" and "pinkwashing.
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He also regularly researched Russian nationalist and neo-fascist writings that are regularly circulated among modern white nationalists to give their ideas a veneer of intellectualism.
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In the first movement, which begins with a melancholic solo theme for violin, Mr. Waarts tapped into tensions within the Neo-Classical veneer of Prokofiev's music.
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Their Jihad is only operating under the veneer of religion, it actually has nothing to do with Islam and is not supported by the Muslim majority.
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He opposed the idea of adding a stone veneer, which he said wouldn't necessarily improve the wall's appearance, as veneers, too, are a matter of taste.
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You look at the jeep but also through and beyond it to visible stretcher bars, while your gaze is drawn to sections made of wood veneer.
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And as an (at least ostensible) historian, he's able to partner with Republican lawmakers to cast a veneer of academic respectability over a thoroughly anti-academic message.
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For this room the custom built-ins (whiskey casks and more) make it unique, as does the stone wall, but brick veneer is a less-expensive option.
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It's refreshing for many to see such a huge celebrity deal with real-life problems and show vulnerability when we so often only see a polished veneer.
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Others see her as a more insidious figure — a telegenic personality with close ties to conservative figures who can offer Facebook's outreach the veneer of journalistic credibility.
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It is about those things, but it's also about how easily a friend can become an enemy the instant you strip away the thinnest veneer of civilization.
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The degree to which the opposition is crippled by things that had a veneer of legality to them, which made it very hard for people to condemn.
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By speaking to Scalfari, Douthat notes, Francis can explore (and, to an extent, "leak" to the public) unorthodox theological ideas while maintaining a veneer of plausible deniability.
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Mr Romer's paper decried the pretend "mathiness" of many economists: the use of meaningless number-crunching to give a veneer of academic credibility to near-useless theories.
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Elsewhere, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are faced with the difficult task of delivering downbeat messages under an increasingly thin veneer of optimism.
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The pageantry of statecraft, including things such as summits with foreign leaders and state visits to the White House, provide China's government with a veneer of legitimacy.
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All of this is then draped with a dark veneer, a truly disturbing narrative that poses many questions but leaves most of the interpretation up to you.
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But under the veneer of brotherhood, competition lurks - especially when it comes to soccer, a regional craze shared from northern Mexico to the icy tip of Patagonia.
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At the Rio Olympics, the Americans kept firing, burnishing their veneer of invincibility with a 57-point thrashing of China and a 44-point rout of Venezuela.
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Whatever remains of the rosy veneer of progress and hope peels away entirely on closer examination of Hernández's bid for reelection, which is illegal under Honduras's constitution.
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Under this model, unbiased (accurate) reporting is left behind, relegating mainstream media, with its veneer and general adherence to fact-based and balanced reporting, as increasingly irrelevant.
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By placing initial box office sales and secondary market resales side by side, they provide a veneer of legitimacy (and an illusion of regulatory transparency) for scalpers.
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As I've previously written, beneath the false veneer of this legend, Guzman was among the most aggressive organized crime leaders in Mexican history — and perhaps even globally.
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Opposition leaders meanwhile are skeptical of Falcon&aposs leftist past and accuse him of providing a veneer of legitimacy to an unfair election by opting to run.
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It is one of many such laws where Congress created the thin veneer of a process for presidential power that, in reality, was a virtual blank slate.
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When lifted from elsewhere and done cheaply, however, it can glint like a low-grade shellac veneer over a pop song, attempting to give it more credibility.
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There is nothing new about Christianity providing certain pop stars a veneer of respectability, especially when they're trying to rehabilitate a "bad boy" or "bad girl" image.
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The carefully choreographed event, at which top leaders make speeches and delegates rubber-stamp new policy, lends a veneer of democracy to China's autocratic system of governance.
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Washing the screen in carmine and ink, he paints a brittle, self-consciously arty veneer that, matched with Flying Lotus's dreamily insistent score, creates disorienting sensory overload.
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Gandhi tried to sheath her authoritarian regime with a veneer of lawful authority by ratcheting up the use of existing laws of preventive detention and police powers.
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And with Orthodox American Jews aligned with evangelicals, that coalition has at least an interfaith veneer — even without Conservative and Reform Jews, the bulk of American Jewry.
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The moves, aimed at reviving a struggling economy, gave Myanmar a veneer of democracy and prompted the United States and the European Union to lift economic sanctions.
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Unlike politics of the past, which you could say has a veneer of politeness, or is under the guise of being colorblind, he is explicit about it.
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The Japanese like power to be disguised, hidden behind a thick veneer of modest manners, consultation with colleagues, opaque chains of command and diffuse centers of responsibility.
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There was a veneer of unity the night the Trump plan was announced, with Mr. Abbas and the head of Hamas's politburo, Ismail Haniya, speaking by phone.
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Second, that the Antifa movement hides behind its opposition to the Trump administration gives them the veneer of respectable protest the mainstream media needs to protect them.
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They see it as a veneer that hides important complexities in the way quantities are related—complexities that could unlock solutions to an enormous number of problems.
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We veterans have been fighting dumb brutal wars in the Middle East for almost 20 years, long enough that it's lost any veneer of noble self-sacrifice.
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These scams can come in the form of financial investment offers, loan schemes, charitable crowdfunding pages or countless other predatory tactics hidden beneath a veneer of altruism.
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Both Hopper and Dahl knock us off balance by peeling away the veneer of domestic tranquillity and inviting us to question what ugly truths are simmering beneath.
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ABG later made a deal with discount retailer Kohl&aposs to sell Juicy-branded products, effectively abandoning the brand&aposs veneer of luxury for many loyal fans.
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After adding cement board to the framing for a smooth surface, he installed a linear arrangement of buff-colored manufactured stone veneer from Eldorado Stone on top.
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While there is research to suggest that legalization does create a protective veneer that would facilitate the impunity of sex traffickers, decriminalization is a different approach entirely.
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And Harris somewhere in between, trying to channel the energy of the blow-it-all-up crowd while preserving the veneer of electability that Biden is selling.
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"Triple-Chaser" thus does double-duty in giving the Whitney a veneer of self-reflective cosmopolitanism while offloading the labor of museum governance to artists and visitors.
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As the film slowly reveals how the village's veneer of civility is built over a foundation of treachery, the darkened foregrounds suggest conspirators hiding in plain sight.
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Inside the List THE TRUMP BEAT: Journalists, even on TV, tend to favor a sort of invisibility cloak, protected by the traditional veneer of impartiality and remove.
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As a result, the Kremlin is fighting to whip up voter enthusiasm and paint the veneer of a real, competitive campaign in order to boost voter turnout.
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The goal of this future world seems to be concealing dingy reality as much as possible, creating a veneer of "beauty" that's often determined by corporate interests.
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That decision, along with his history, shows that his veneer of politeness is meaningless, and that misogyny is misogyny, whether it's cloaked in good manners or not.
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Radical and often questionable ersatz substances like vinyl, Fiberglas™, wood grain veneer, velour, and injected plastics climbed into the car as symbols of technological sophistication and durability.
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Soccer glory can only briefly apply a thin veneer over deep divisions within England, profoundly split by Brexit, or Belgium, long split between its Flemish and Walloon sides.
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She carves niches into her readymade sculptures for little bars of soap, a symbol both of domestic work and the desire to wash from history its congenial veneer.
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Both Rockburne and Dunham explore wood in different forms: the former used nails, crude oil, chipboard, and paper, while the latter employed gouache, charcoal, and pencil on veneer.
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That said, "there might be a limit to what the BoJ can do to prevent yen from rallying," he added—especially as the veneer of European unity splinters.
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Then, Dr. Apa placed a special light beam against my tooth and the veneer to activate the chemicals in the cement, causing it to quickly harden in place.
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At first glance, these edits gave the new order a more evenhanded veneer: three new countries on three different continents, only one of which (Chad) is Muslim-majority.
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Beneath that veneer there's a more obvious truth, however: Eugene always puts himself first, and he's just desperately trying to prove that he's valuable enough to keep alive.
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Ivanka Trump's tweets used to have the veneer of normality, despite the highly not normal premise of her being a senior White House advisor in the first place.
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"The monument ultimately designated in the Atlantic was largely the result of a series of political compromises layered with a thin veneer of public outreach," the organization wrote.
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We've long suspected that a dark underbelly lay hidden beneath the cute veneer of Animal Crossing, a Nintendo game about friendship, cute critters, and paying off mortgages (allegedly).
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Ross's detailed charges and his own claims that Birdman let him down are, in a way, more devastating because they have more of a veneer of independent authority.
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But by applying only a thin veneer of "modernisation" over a largely unreconstructed party, he had failed to imbue it with any coherent idea about how to govern.
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If anything, the experience taught me that many mass LGBTQ+ nonprofit organizations, despite using a philanthropic veneer as a shield, were subject to systemic racism, transphobia, and ableism.
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Check out more videos from VICE: But beneath the veneer of international statistics lurks a harsh reality: For each indicator, only certain countries are doing the heavy lifting.
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I wonder whether the emergence of this rhetoric is way to reject the rarefied, middle class veneer of veganism found in the increasingly less palatable "clean" eating movement.
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Rights groups say the new supervision law will give detentions the veneer of legality, while still risking torture and rights abuses that they say plagued the old system.
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While the West Coast scene often revealed in sky-high hair and make-up coated excess, a new sound was emerging in direct contrast to its sticky veneer.
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You can understand it: Neon has always had a certain attraction for the extreme sports world, and bringing it to establishment events gives them a veneer of cool.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Greensboro Sit-ins, the Freedom Rides — these were responses to the veneer of civility that preserved racial injustice in the Jim Crow South.
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Just as representative of a world rotten by endless conflict is Cressida's comic relief of an uncle, Pandarus (John Glover), who has been shellacked with a malevolent veneer.
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Because the gallery opened to the public in 2013, well before retail tenants had set up shop, there have been years to appreciate it without any commercial veneer.
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Even before the fire starts blazing in the center of the room, we see water stains, rising like flames, along the base of the inexpensive wood veneer panels.
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It also sports a pair of nifty side-perks: First, you can choose between six casings for your Echo, including a wood veneer and a full fabric covering.
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Everything about the guest experience, from the smooth jazz playing in the lobby to the earth-tone décor, is designed to create a veneer of contentment and belonging.
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But when its lies are so painstakingly and publicly unpicked, and its veneer of untruth ripped away, there is undoubtedly reputational damage to the authority of Vladimir Putin.
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A normally mild-mannered lawmaker, Schiff had worked hard in recent days to maintain a veneer of bipartisanship when it came to Nunes and the Trump wiretapping probe.
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Velasco and Prickett gloss over the sexual harassment claims and try to rewrite the history, discussing Velasco's childhood bullying and other details to create a veneer of sympathy.
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Though Barneys had clearly worked to maintain a luxurious veneer even as it liquidates, we saw a few signs of disarray, like this this pile of sales tags.
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While many documentaries struggle to maintain a veneer of objectivity, Braatz wants the viewer to know that this story is filtered through the subjective lens of his experience.
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Grass, with its slick veneer and tricky bounces, is friendly to tall players with big serves who don't like long rallies and are comfortable going to the net.
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"He has to stop any pretense and veneer that he's the 'sunny ways' guy or Mr. Clean," said Ms. Kurl, the executive director of the nonprofit polling firm.
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But knowing the looks of Campion's other films, I have to imagine the ugliness was an intentional attempt to give the film's New York setting a seedy veneer.
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While the national poverty rate in 21625 was estimated between 2900 and 220006 percent, the current estimate in Westchester is still 2202 percent, despite its veneer of wealth.
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This kind of behavior keeps coming back, said Mr. Nilsson, the political editor, and feeds the suspicion that the party's more mainstream recent image is just a veneer.
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I grew up in the Soviet Union, and I know firsthand how damaging it was for us to maintain a mandatory veneer in which we could not believe.
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In that state, his charm is revealed to be a quickly peeling veneer; as monstrous as he is when drunk, you feel he would be even worse sober.
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Russian media, including Sputnik and RT, made the movement appear significantly larger, though, by interviewing activists and giving them both a platform and a veneer of legitimacy. 3.
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"The really sad thing here is that these numerical arguments have the veneer of seriousness, and as a result, they can drive really bad policy," Mr. Garthwaite said.
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Adulthood is a weird, ever-changing state and so Tuca & Bertie leans in to that weirdness to expose the harsh truths that lie underneath every life's wacky veneer.
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And those who put a legal veneer on judicially-sanctioned torture and murder shouldn't be the people interpreting our laws from the most vaunted bench in the land.
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Instead, the rebuilt town is merely a veneer — much like the repeated statements Nigerian authorities have made for more than a year that they have defeated the militants.
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Donald Trump got elected, in part, because he kowtowed to this cult of guns, pretending to be a lover of weapons, even a member, although this was a veneer.
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Twin Peaks has always been about the thin veneer of civilization we place over the more elemental forces that tug us between the twin poles of good and evil.
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Kim Kardashian made enough missteps early in her career for us to see the cracks in her glossy veneer, like that sex tape and her two minute-long marriages.
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The veneer of civilization, I concluded, was quite thin — a natural thought for an intelligence officer whose profession trends pessimistic and whose work is consumed by threats and dangers.
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His work makes no claims to subtlety in conveying its message — that beneath its cheery veneer, the United States harbors dark forces and virulent cynicism within its political system.
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The issue is that many unicorns are not sustainable; they have a shiny veneer of revenue growth, without a sufficiently durable competitive advantage to create substantial, long-term value.
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Yu discussed concerns of a "chilling effects" on civilians, where they may feel uncomfortable reporting officer abuse because of the veneer of objectivity the legal system gives video footage.
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In fact, it gets so cold at very high altitudes that nitrogen gas begins to settle out, leaving a thin veneer of methane brushing against the edge of space.
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It could end up just being the random musings of everyday Twitter users, as most of Periscope ended up becoming after the veneer of mobile live-streaming wore off.
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The Academy likes to keep up the veneer of intellectual superiority, and people dressed up in spandex body suits don't usually give off an air of dignity and poise.
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But does it not matter than the couple itself may not view its own nuptials as having a religious veneer, or that many Americans are wed in secular ceremonies?
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The one for the spring and summer of 1971, for instance, runs to 1,21997 pages and offers everything from Dacron polyester nurse uniforms to colonial birch-veneer bedroom sets.
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When I subscribed to wellness, it gave me the means to rationalize my food insecurities, while glossing over my fear of food with the respectable veneer of health-consciousness.
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The one for the spring and summer of 21993, for instance, runs to 1,071 pages and offers everything from Dacron polyester nurse uniforms to colonial birch-veneer bedroom sets.
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" She proposes that Austen left a series of such clues linking the "unforgivable sin" of slavery to the Church of England, which gave it "a veneer of Christian respectability.
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Across the border in arch-rival Pakistan, the foreign ministry said the decision "shredded the veneer of so-called secularism" in India and showed minorities were no longer safe.
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Other candidates, in particular television-presenter-turned-liberal-mouthpiece Ksenia Sobchak and Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, a businessman known for his strawberry farm, provided a veneer of competitiveness.
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It was a wake-up call that all of that was always there, but the band-aid that was on the thin veneer disguising it had been pulled away.
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In truth, Mr. Bieber is more musically thoughtful than he's generally given credit for, and Diplo is a pop producer and always has been, despite a veneer of transgression.
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He might bottle up his frustrations during the day, maintaining a composed veneer of professionalism, and then release his pent-up emotions on his spouse when he returns home.
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The stores' owners, David Green and his family—like Chick-fil-A's Dan Cathy and many before them—have layered a Christ-like veneer onto the pursuit of profit.
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Its colorful veneer is underscored by the kind of queer-and-body positive attitude that I personally like to seek out in tiny, warm pockets of indie games culture.
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"The coronavirus puts a veneer of reputability on it that perhaps wasn't there before," said Ben Clift, a professor of political economy at the University of Warwick in England.
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Buyers can specify poles for hanging clothes, storage cubbies and slide-out shelves as well as select from finishes including walnut veneer, according to Jennifer Kalish, the sales director.
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Just as in "New York," the pop-inflected veneer of Da Corte's body of work candy-coats heavier sentiments; all of these are physical manifestations of fear and uncertainty.
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Commercial galleries are not necessarily gatekeepers or caretakers of complicated histories, but the veneer of social and political awareness could have been more rigorously worked out in these shows.
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Indeed, Trump could be a far more dangerous man if he had the emotional intelligence to hide his hostility, corruption and divisiveness behind a veneer of openness and rapprochement.
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My rather cheerless 22nd-floor superior king room boasted beige wallpaper, an armchair in chocolate-brown damask, and a TV atop a functional-looking dresser of ash-gray veneer.
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They started with Sofia, a sparkling wine, and are finally introducing still wines with a veneer of prestige: Diamond Collection canned wines, $20 for four 8.4-ounce cans, francisfordcoppolawinery.com.
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It is strange, in an age of female sound and fury, this enduring fixation on a near-silent woman who put forth the decorous veneer of an aristocratic hostess.
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Successive reforms of EU treaties have increased the Parliament's power over the appointment of commissioners, lending a veneer of democratic legitimacy to a process often criticised for its absence.
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In short, Mr. Mueller lost the veneer of "independent" special counsel and exposed himself as an ordinary sleuth in a politically motivated witch hunt to get Mr. Trump impeached.
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The new iteration is shorter, with sleeves made of fabric, wood veneer and other materials that allow it to blend in better with the rest of a home's décor.
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Ansari, now 36, often kept his emotions in check behind a cool veneer, but in "Right Now," he expresses not just notes of sadness and regret, but also anger.
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For decades, the country's elite have deftly crafted a veneer of prosperity on the backs of the country's marginalized, analysts say, but the bubble now appears to be bursting.
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He is ruefully funny about the lengths to which strip club bouncers would go, in New Orleans, to keep a black man out while maintaining a veneer of politeness.
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Tomic's tirade tore apart the veneer of harmony that captain Hewitt has been at pains to present after in-fighting overshadowed Australia's run to the semi-finals last year.
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Today, the veneer of proxies separating Russian and American forces is wafer thin -- so too between Turkish troops and America's Syrian allies -- as Iran's entrenchment collides with Israel's interests.
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It can be hard to treat these individuals in therapy because they are so invested in their flawless self-presentation; psychoanalysts must work hard to scratch off the veneer.
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As a safeguard of architecture of aesthetic significance, it clearly wasn't intended to enshrine what looks like the current Home Depot picture window or brick veneer on the inn's facade.
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Amazon made six different shells for the thing, including a few wood-veneer options, to blend into your home a little better than a big black can of tennis balls.
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This is all technically true, but season 1 of the streaming series reveals this love story is far more troubling than the romance novel veneer Netflix's marketing wizards cooked up.
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"Factor GMO has many of the hallmark characteristics of Russian anti-GMO propaganda, though it gives itself a veneer of scientific objectivity," Iowa State sociologist Shawn Dorius told BuzzFeed News.
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Corey, accompanied by his Angels, told us it was actually a $2,000 veneer that got knocked out of his mouth when he accidentally hit it on the mic in Milwaukee.
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The trade publication adds that Elgort had been looking for a more prestigious project after Baby Driver, hoping to shed the veneer of starring in a super-popular film series.
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This recent press tour has felt like a chance for Lawrence to tone down the cool girl veneer somewhat, and admit that she feels pressure to act a certain way.
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The CPP was banking on a high voter turnout to bestow a veneer of legitimacy on the election which many, including the United Nations and some Western countries, had criticized.
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However, as seen in flash-forwards and tiny cracks in the veneer of each person's story, none of that is what it seems, and everyone's motives and actions are suspect.
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Crafted with real ebony wood veneer and copper knobs and switches, they look like a retro piece of sound equipment — but they're equipped with the latest in wireless streaming technology.
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Established in 1934 to oversee radio airwaves and the Bell telephone monopoly, the FCC is one of those government institutions that conceals its importance behind an impenetrable veneer of boringness.
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Again, it's taking a wildly over-the-top view, all screaming guitars and cartoon demons, but the parallels with actual human history and current events are just beneath that veneer.
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But the veneer of nonpartisanship, too, is leaking away: In practice, candidates seek endorsements from state political parties, and groups with overtly partisan goals are among the biggest outside spenders.
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It is when they are paired with his lyrics, which are equal parts jocular and dour, that they take on the veneer of monologues by John Oliver or Samantha Bee.
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"Country Boy" was Campbell's fifth straight number one hit on the Easy Listening chart, but its schmaltzy veneer masks one of Campbell's deepest declarations of anxious introspection and self-doubt.
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The Afghan economy has yet to recover from the departure of foreign combat troops in 2014, which shattered a war economy that had produced a fragile veneer of fiscal stability.
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A pioneer of the DIY ethic that still permeates parts of the UK's so-called urban music scenes, it was the antithesis to the shiny, American veneer of MTV Base.
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Android has become many tech companies' original sin: fundamental to their identity and the character of their products, but buried under a thick veneer of insecure puffery, denial, and evasion.
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Its roots may go back as far as the Barbary Coast brothels of the 19th century, where living as a community lent a veneer of plausible deniability to sex work.
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Strip the veneer off this worn-out and worthless cliche: You won't find a commitment to sound money and free enterprise, but rather a government-knows-best mentality hiding beneath.
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Femtech companies may be little more than a modern gloss on the health and beauty industry, applying a veneer of feminism to age-old appeals to women's fears and insecurities.
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Justice Breyer was careful not to call out the Texas Legislature for placing a health-related veneer on laws whose true intent is to make access to abortion more difficult.
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We were also the first children raised on Stevens Spielberg and King, on all that cultural detritus that conferred a veneer of legitimacy on the folklore of aliens and ghosts.
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Those who have earned one of these boast the rarest accomplishment, and despite the league's changing veneer, it's still a warrior's badge, respected even with the extinction of league pugilists.
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When Banksy opened a dystopian version of the Waldorf Hotel last week in Bethlehem, directly facing the border wall, it was shrouded in the pseudonymous artist's typical veneer of mystery.
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Similarly, the decision to craft Betty (Lili Reinhart) as a watercolor Veronica Mars—searing, ungovernable anger coursing just below a sunny, plucky, perfectionist's veneer—is among the show's best surprises.
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Only when we listen to Walt Suskind, Owen's devoted older brother, contemplate the burden that lies ahead does the film crack its upbeat veneer and expose a much-needed nerve.
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Many Chinese people believe that having a Caucasian person front a project gives it an air of prestige or veneer of credibility, giving rise to "rent a white face" businesses.
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Once again, she has also altered the gallery's floor with a series of six-and-a-half-inch-high platforms, both small and large, in plywood with a pine veneer.
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Presidents are human, too, a blend of varying degrees of idealism, generosity, empathy, ambition, ego, vanity, jealousy and anger, but they generally hide their unvarnished traits behind an official veneer.
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Usually, there are a dozen ski runs curving into town; at the beginning of February, there was only one, an icy chute coated with a thin veneer of fabricated snow.
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In an apocalypse, we understand in a new way what human nature is like, what lies beneath the thin veneer of civilization, what we value, what we think is important.
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Mr. Trudeau was revealed last month to have dressed in blackface and brownface when he was younger, adding to critics' broader accusation that his liberal image is merely a veneer.
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But when they dial back the unnatural veneer of celebrity, it certainly feels like we're all on the same playing field, trying to find hope and connection where we can.
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But when they dial back the unnatural veneer of celebrity, it certainly feels like we're all on the same playing field, trying to find hope and connection where we can.
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Not only does that give the state's crackdown a veneer of respectability, it also impugns the reputations of the journalists it targets, making them less credible to their readers and viewers.
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Created in one of the world's most densely populated cities, there are no strangers in Tse's photographs, no passersby to chip away at the veneer of safety that fantasy may provide.
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The Google Pixel Slate might look like an iPad with a Google Pixel veneer applied, but there aren't a lot of products that have me as excited as the Pixel Slate.
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Below, a Bob Simmons—known as the father of modern surfboard design—board from 1949, made of a polystyrene core laminated with a mahogany veneer and sealed with fiberglass and resin.
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I think when you have a Mike Pence that now, sort of, puts this religious veneer on things and calls people values voter, I think we&aposre in a dangerous situation.
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And it signals how the president may enter campaign season, feeling that he is finally clear of the plots arrayed against him and ready to ditch any remaining veneer of restraint.
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It's a paradigm that offers two basic choices: Ignore the deplorati—which allows the dishonesty or cruelty to stand in public view and acquire the veneer of credibility by doing so.
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He's not a bad man; if anything, he's a victim as much as any of the teenagers he's responsible for, doomed to perform heterosexuality under a thin veneer of forced happiness.
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The show's first season set the show apart from most dramas both for its icy veneer, as well as its running time (each episode was only 30 minutes, a welcome rarity).
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She's the quiet force behind the film, handling crises with poise even as you sense that anxiety, loneliness and anger are all hitting boiling point under that veneer of capable calm.
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Misinformation does not always come in the form of links, but often as forwarded texts and videos, which look the same as personal messages, lending them a further veneer of legitimacy.
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Whether it's layering on a veneer of blushed tones or upping the "cute" factor of events, there's a big assumption that to welcome girls into coding, we need to think pink.
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But under that sci-fi veneer is a film about communication, and the effort required to understand someone (or, in this case, something) who looks and speaks differently than you do.
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" Others, like the website ThinkProgress, refused to use the term, saying it put a hip veneer on "hidebound racist movements such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
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In his involving account, the lawyer reveals just how tough it was to combat Simpson's celebrity factor among jurors -- until Simpson himself took the stand, and his polished veneer eventually crumbled.
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"To create a torture program with a scientific veneer, defendants drew on experiments from the 1960s in which researchers taught dogs 'helplessness' by subjecting them to uncontrollable pain," the lawsuit states.
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These moments of developers standing on a stage and speaking in (sometimes very specific) terms about how the sausage is made is distinct from the polished veneer of a bigger show.
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To celebrate 70 years of continuous production of its beloved founding product, Klipsch is introducing a special edition this year, limited to just 70 pairs, made with an Australian walnut veneer.
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In a bid to give his regime a veneer of legitimacy, he began to invest heavily in Zaire's football infrastructure with the aim of turning them into Africa's first sporting superpower.
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In their willful poshness, these names read as attempts to hand an insulating veneer of comfort to babies being born into a world shot through and sinking with discomfort and uncertainty.
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But when she uses language in this way, she disguises a very particular ideology—one that I believe leads to harm against trans people—beneath an exceptionally dishonest veneer of civility.
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The arrogance and thin veneer of the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech is not a license to mislead, lie, and cheat the even unwitting public out of the truth.
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Gerhaher possesses a singular vocal style in which the veneer of classical refinement periodically gives way to the world-weary rasp of the balladeer or the arch charm of the crooner.
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Ms. Merkel put together a deal between Turkey and the European Union in March that gave a veneer of unity to the Continent's very mixed response to arriving refugees and migrants.
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And if you'd like to disguise your appreciation for Ayn Rand with an intellectual veneer, you're in luck: The gospel of supply-side economics could always use a few true believers.
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The new Echo also received a face lift thanks to a more squat, redesigned body and the option to swap in one of six different fabric or wood veneer color shells.
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Despite their good intentions, many of these technologies repackage millennia-old narratives about how the business of avoiding rape is a woman's job—only now with a veneer of feminist branding.
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Maduro, elected to replace late leader Hugo Chavez after his death three years ago, counters it is in fact the opposition vying for a coup beneath the veneer of peaceful protests.
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Nakesha's story reminds me of how few the degrees of separation we all are from one another & how thin the veneer of stability is that holds each of our lives together.
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The junta leaders hoped that the long-delayed lower house elections on March 24 would give them the veneer of legitimacy at home and abroad, while ultimately letting them retain power.
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The mayor's deepening legal troubles seemed to highlight for some in the city that the veneer of progress — the new casinos, coffee shops, yoga studios and apartment developments — was a mirage.
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He seemed relaxed, even good-humored, beneath his eternally dyspeptic veneer as he reflected on the improbable arc that began with his tenure as a small-city mayor 39 years earlier.
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The most delightful thing I ate all year: fruit buried in whipped cream between two impeccably toasted slices of shokupan (Japanese milk bread), their crisp veneer giving way to beautiful sponge.
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Even so, society needs reporters like Hersh — skeptics who take nothing on trust and who go to exhaustive lengths to dig beneath the thick veneer of gloss, dross, fakery and spin.
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Trump and Kim have maintained a veneer of personal warmth since then, and met one more time briefly near the demilitarized zone in the spring, but official talks have gone nowhere.
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The conventional understanding has been that Breitbart editors shared that underlying bigotry but were clever enough to shroud their intentions in the obscurantist veneer of tweedy-sounding gibberish about Andrew Jackson.
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The bitter beauty of the script, by Mike Leigh (whose films include "Secrets & Lies" and "Another Year"), is the disappointment behind the veneer of satisfaction, all laid out in prosaic dialogue.
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On Sunday at the SAGS we started to see the veneer crack — almost everyone talked politics from the stage — and my guess is that speaking out only crescendos at the Oscars.
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When we blithely consent to the collection of our personally identifiable information as a condition of free and continued use, a social contract is formed and the veneer of privacy fades.
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"(Trump) created a situation where that veneer of the invisibility of politics and the invisibility of race in the Super Bowl has been shattered in a lot of ways," Runstedtler said.
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Michael Flynn, a retired general, and H.R. McMaster, an active one, also served as Mr Trump's first two national security advisers, lending a veneer of normalcy to his anarchic foreign policy.
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But the series is ultimately less concerned with the mystery, which accordingly turns out to be less complicated than its veneer would suggest, and more with the characters working through it.
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NASA would surely claim that its researchers are more serious-minded than their Malaysian counterpart, whom it dismissed as a tourist, but the thin scientific veneer on his trip is revealing.
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The big picture: Companies are painting over existing practices with a veneer of rule-following, argues NYU law professor Ari Waldman in an upcoming article for the Washington University Law Review.
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Instead of depending on its photogenic actors making meals out of the scenery, Big Little Lies revealed its luxurious trappings to be nothing more than a veneer concealing much uglier truths.
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His grip on power has only tightened since then, as he's refined his trademark brand of authoritarianism, press repression, nationalism, and heavy surveillance, packaged under a thin veneer of democratic legitimacy.
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"It's a thin veneer of satire and plot, that's so thin, it's actually the smallest and lightest and most confusing plot that's ever been released from a major studio," Cohen deadpans.
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Alison Kent, 42, told BuzzFeed News she was happy with all of her West Elm purchases until she bought a $600 Reeve marble dining table that started chipping, revealing a marble veneer.
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So in an effort to provide some balm for myself, and hopefully for you, I want to unpack what gifts might be hiding beneath the rotten veneer of the 2016 presidential election.
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"One of the most deeply evil tricks of cults, Nxivm/DOS in particular, is that they hide behind the veneer of choice, even choices many rightly say are virtuous," Catherine Oxenberg said.
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Woodward's credibility as a renowned investigative reporter, however, gives the oft-heard accounts of incompetence and disarray in the White House a veneer of believability that Trump officials are straining to cheapen.
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They've been ginning up so-called research for everyone from shady corporations to anti-LGBTQ groups to white supremacists for decades—they're practiced, and their faux-academic veneer is thick and glossy.
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In Us, it's the deliberate societal choice to forget, repress, and refuse to learn from the mistakes of the past that allow subterranean horror to cultivate beneath a societal veneer of stability.
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The common refrain that "if you're not paying, then you're the product" is particularly unhelpful, simultaneously implying that companies don't care about users, and that apps are primarily a veneer for exploitation.
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San Francisco (CNN)As the two Democrats running to succeed him enter a caustic stretch of campaign, President Barack Obama is working overtime to project a happy-family veneer for his party.
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The massive construction project, marked by a glittering exterior veneer made of volcanic ash, cost a reported $18.2 million for the interior build out for a building the gallery doesn't even own.
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Beneath this veneer, however, the bold attempt to create the world's third largest carmaker risks becoming rapidly embroiled in the fraught relationship between France's europhile President Emmanuel Macron and Italy's eurosceptic leaders.
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It's shown in the form of inquiry as to where your family is "originally" from — shedding all veneer of a "common French heritage" as merely a matter of niceties and wishful thinking.
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The Uruguay operations include more than 300,000 acres of timberlands in northeastern and north central Uruguay, a plywood and veneer manufacturing facility, a cogeneration facility and a seedling nursery, the company said.
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NuAns has increased the variety of styles on offer for the two-tone covers, which now includes tennâge (wood veneer sheets), clarino (synthetic leather), ultrasuede, cork, denim, dotted ultrasuede, and stone options.
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Dr. Finkel says that the price of an average single veneer in New York City is $2,000; Dr. Apa charges roughly $3,500 to $4,000 each, putting a full set at around $80,000.
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There's a variety of reasons that we may fail to completely tune into their desperation, and the desperation that they may be hiding behind this sort of smiling veneer of professional competence.
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Balenciaga may call their new giant blue bag the "Arena Extra-Large Shopper Tote Bag," but there's no mistaking that oversize trapezoidal shape, short and long side straps, and glossy blue veneer.
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Terrorist label doesn't fit When we don't know the motivations of these new killers who simply cover their actions with an ISIS veneer, why do we give them the validation they seek?
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But what's most galling about the book is that it uses the veneer of art and assumed cultural value to whitewash the realities of how many of these spaces came to be.
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His biggest bargaining chip is that the army chiefs who snatched control less than a week ago want him to "agree" to resign, to lend a veneer of legitimacy on their takeover.
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Just as Trump has given a veneer of "respectability" to expressions of bigotry and xenophobia, he's made calls for reining in popular democracy sound, to many people's ears, like a reasonable response.
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Pocket doors were installed to create private nooks and to maximize floor space; the ceilings were raised three feet, and a long wall in the kitchen acquired a veneer of thin brick.
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Sullen and suspicious, she seldom lets someone into her heart, but the few people she chooses to love get to see what's beneath her icy veneer: genuine warmth, compassion, and undying loyalty.
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After a brief period of trial and error, they succeeded, maintaining a veneer of democratic legitimacy while all-but-inevitably guiding voters towards the preferred choice of party heavyweights and interest groups.
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And it has changed the national discourse for the worse, thanks in part to elected officials and other notable figures providing the group a veneer of legitimacy and amplifying its demonizing rhetoric.
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Despite his commanding lead nationally, his second-place finish in the Hawkeye state stripped away the veneer of invincibility around his campaign and raised questions about the efficacy of his ground game.
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Thus when the French established their first colonial base of Cochin-China in 1862, they did not build a state so much as layer a French veneer onto an already functioning one.
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"Bathing in Moonlight," which has been handsomely mounted under the direction of Emily Mann, is given a veneer of currency in its implicit criticism of the church's rules forbidding priests to marry.
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Other politicians like the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan (the Harvard professor who added an academic veneer to the Senate for four terms) could make a speech sound like an Ivy League seminar.
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Back inside, Goldhagen pointed out shoddy construction details: mismatched reflective panels, misaligned molding joints, a wall from which half-dollar-size pieces of wood veneer had fallen away, revealing the particleboard beneath.
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The problem comes from people reacting positively to a new veneer being lathered atop some old junk just because they remember something from the time when their critical faculties were somewhat lacking.
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