| 单词 | veneer |
| 例句 | Here and there, makeshift crosses and pictures of saints added a veneer of Catholicism to indigenous Andean belief. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The magic veneer had faded, leaving only broken walls and excavation pits. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Third, when Washington talked about independence from foreign nations, his understanding of what American independence entailed cut much deeper than the patriotic veneer customarily suggested by the term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Muhammad bursts in as I’m fingering the wood veneer on them, his phone in the air. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Because of the sheets of wood veneer her father has tacked over its windows, their apartment is stuffy and hot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Notice, for instance, the veneer headboard of the bed, made from “pure cherrywood,” as Milton likes to say, just like the little tree George Washington chopped down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Jesse’s normally cautious veneer would peel away in a second at the appearance of an interesting idea or argument. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever we first opened its door at the top of the creaky narrow stairs we smelled the fresh veneers of pine oil and bleach and lemon balm. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she blinked and her face smoothed out into a steely veneer. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Supermarket tabloids never provide an end-of-year list of false predictions by psychics, nor do the more upscale New Age periodicals, which, despite a veneer of sophistication, are just as fatuous. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By repeating this process many times, they removed the copper atoms from the surface of the metal, creating a veneer of almost pure gold. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We ate in a dining alcove paneled in mahogany veneer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As requested, the College assembled, but the veneer of mutual respect and consideration had worn very thin. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There’s a sort of primal hostility all around us, hidden by a veneer of suburban politeness. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Rage ignited in his eyes, the calm veneer dropping away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, “cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Corporal Reynolds looks at me and allows a small smile to crack his normally serious veneer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I had the sense that I should have been able to unpack them, that there was only a thin veneer separating me from their meaning, and yet the veneer was impenetrable. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Pith helmets with netting, tools, and wax candles hung from nails near the front door, and a thin veneer of honey lay across everything. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like its name, the place masked a whole lot of cruelty under a thin veneer of kindness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A veneer of jaunty self-confidence thinly concealed his nervousness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir,” he said quickly, his veneer of smoothness slipping. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They are wonderfully built homes, aluminum skins, doublewalled, with insulation, and often paneled with veneer of hardwood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One was a deep brown, with scrapes and scratches visible beneath the glossy veneer she kept up with biannual waxing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As Weaver notes, “rather than fading, the segregationists’ crime-race argument was reframed, with a slightly different veneer,” and eventually became the foundation of the conservative agenda on crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Inside, the windows are boarded over with wood veneer, and an airless, pearly light seeps through the knotholes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Architecture’s parameters are defined by utilitarian function and structural system, but there is almost always an aesthetic component as well, even when it consists of nothing more than a decorative veneer. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They had to hide their desires behind a veneer of respectability. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The so-called Dutch elm disease entered the United States from Europe about 1930 in elm burl logs imported for the veneer industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Tenzing was moving closely behind the other four, stepping exactly where they had stepped, when he broke through a thin veneer of snow spanning a deep crevasse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Satisfied, he takes a sealed envelope from the black gym bag on the floor and lays it across the veneered pressboard desk, making sure it’s straight. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I had decided to line the interior of the nozzle with a veneer of water putty, an inspiration that I hoped would act as an ablative heat sink. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The moment we walked out of the classroom, his cocksure veneer, the spit and polish, would return. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Even today the artist remains a magician whose work can mystify and move us—an embarrassing fact to civilized people, who do not readily relinquish their veneer of rational control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was little pretence now—no formal veneer of conversation. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there— watching and waiting. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In a way, she still was, but behind that veneer, Koffi caught a glimpse of something else, something older and far cooler. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z To break through the smug veneer of those who use their brains to find amusing ways to kill us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z With him came escalating demands for land and service—the veneer of reciprocity was fading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Since that day, he has adopted a veneer of unshakable courage. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The jocks held sway, but the focus on sports, the all-American veneer, had a dark underbelly, at least from Dallas’s perspective. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I cobbled together weekly rituals through which I might pretend to be close to her and imaginatively pierce her thick veneer,” she writes. ‘The Skin Above My Knee,’ by Marcia Butler 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z It neatly summed up the recital’s apparent aims: the rich but thin veneer of classical elegance giving way to other, unexpected possibilities. Review | Leila Josefowicz presents the violin, unfiltered, in Library of Congress recital 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z But if you carefully pry up the cove molding under the tread, install the veneer, then reinstall the molding, it will help anchor that edge, he said. My puppy chewed through the wood stair tread. What to do? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Massive, yet somehow aerodynamic, it was wrapped all around in book-matched walnut veneer and sported curved aluminum drawer pulls. What the saga of Chieftain Blue Sparks’s desk has to teach us 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In the months that have followed, classical music — an industry more precarious than its moneyed veneer lets on — has been devastated. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There, her veneer of lolzy insincerity is exactly what draws us in. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z His resplendent voice, with its distinctive mellow character and dusky veneer, sounded not at all compromised. Review: ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Anna Bolena’ Showcase Courage and Command at the Met 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The closet doors in the guest rooms have waterfall veneers, night tables feature faux red coral lamps, and the carpets are art deco-inspired swirls of red, blue and turquoise. Discover your inner movie star at this glamorous, ’50s-inspired Miami Beach hotel 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Or you could install new veneer over the surface, using peel-and-stick veneer. What to do when a DIY repair leads to a mishap with polyurethane glue 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z And while the veneer of sequins, hip-shaking and camp tomfoolery often draws audiences in, it's a good story that keeps them there. Eurovision Crowns a German Pop Idol 2010-05-30T08:20:00Z “There’s a desire for imperfection in veneers,” said Dr. Marc Lowenberg, a cosmetic dentist in Manhattan. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z There is the veneer of change at Nike. Reading All the Books on Nike, Déjà Vu Sets In 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z It certainly has the veneer of being daring. ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: A Different Kind of Oil Boom 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Q: We have a table covered with veneer. How to repair veneer that has bubbled up 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z A kitchen area — dark with blackened steel and walnut veneered cabinets — is at the back, dining is in the middle and living at the sunny end. Comforts, but Few Creatures (Unless You Count the Dog) 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Here, a thin brick veneer, which is easier to install than full-size brick and costs less, is used. 20 Idea House Kitchens 2010-03-04T02:03:00Z That language is, you know, manipulated and strangled in such a way that you get the message, although the veneer of accuracy and forthrightness is there. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Scalia, certainly not known for his moderation, went even further than he often does, describing the ruling, incredulously, as “lacking even a thin veneer of law.” Civilities: Roberts and Scalia are sore losers. Just ask Nixon, Trump or Gen. Robert E. Lee. 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z In fact, that mystery is the whole point of “Deviation,” which was published in Italy in 1979 and viewed as a memoir with the thinnest of fictional veneers. The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Underpinning the veneer of the fake face and fake hair and fake nails are Parton's talent, brains and warmth. Liberace to Carmen Miranda 2013-06-06T09:58:14Z When someone shoots her a dirty look, her veneer of happiness rapidly disintegrates, and she collapses. The Scars of Ukraine’s War, Illuminated in Fiction 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z But when you buy the replacement parts, you can upgrade to solid wood and never have to worry about veneer peeling again. Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z So it might be worth some effort to restore the veneered portion of the door. How to repair water-damaged oak veneer 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Melania’s warmth, he said, is often masked by a restrained veneer. In New York, searching for the reclusive and elusive Melania Trump 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The dedication tempts us with its veneer of sincerity. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z Q: My kitchen cabinets have a veneer that has rotted from moisture in certain places. Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Despite the veneer of experimentation suggested by the interactive aspect, there was little sense of innovation in “The Shooting Gallery.” Music Review: Bill Morrison and Richard Einhorn’s ‘Shooting Gallery’ 2012-11-11T23:00:07Z Welfare science deflects attention away from moral concerns over animal captivity, because it stays focused on immediate welfare challenges and provides a nice veneer of scientific and thus ethical acceptability to the overall endeavor. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Scratch off the veneer and all is revealed: a destructive economic liberalism that threatens the foundations of modern conservatism. Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity – review 2012-09-27T07:00:03Z Elsewhere Burri just marks time rearranging component parts, for example tastefully combining red and black paint with wood veneer. Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Under the veneer of all those glowing happy life posts, all of the married people are hitting on all the other married people, and the single people too. Facebook’s Last Taboo: The Unhappy Marriage 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Braised pork shoulder “in 23 flavors,” with a mere veneer of kimchi, is a stretch. Lunchbox: It looks good and sounds good, but it sure could taste better As the chauffeur navigated the wide sedan down the narrow streets, I pulled down one of the veneered picnic tables and set up my mobile office. A Day in Life of a Bentley Mulsanne 2012-08-05T21:56:52Z Her father, Joseph, was a businessman who imported exotic hardwoods and veneers for the furniture industry. Suzanne Rheinstein, Designer of Classic American Interiors, Dies at 77 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z This humanity is faintly glimpsed beneath the familiar veneer of spite, even in Kate’s first scene. Theater Review: ?The Taming of the Shrew,? at the Duke on 42nd Street 2012-04-03T21:16:19Z What made Thursday’s backstage events so shocking was the crack in the veneer. Perspective | The most painful part of Kamila Valieva’s Olympic stumble was what happened after she left the ice 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Lee created an entirely new material by laminating wood veneer to produce a lighter, stronger and much more beautiful version of cardboard. Light is right at the Brit Insurance Design awards 2011 ? review 2011-02-17T09:51:50Z And an equally intricate, sculptural “textile,” by Elisa Strozyk, is actually made of small pieces of laser-cut walnut veneer, glued to a viscose backing. Art Review: ‘Against the Grain,’ at the Museum of Arts and Design 2013-06-06T21:50:05Z When I was 12, a different dentist declared that decision absurd and wedged in a veneer to close the gap. The Dentist Who Treated My Divorce 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But Ms. Cody’s book for “Jagged Little Pill” — which strips away the picture-perfect veneer of a Connecticut family over the course of a year — is unapologetically on brand: by turns bitingly satirical, touching and frank. Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Beneath his thin veneer of charm, the locksmith is grouchy and curdled, a man who lies to himself as much as to those around him. Manglehorn review – Renaissance man Al Pacino delivers a masterclass as a lion in winter 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Garbett: L.A.’s glitzy veneer, dark underbelly and even darker past is a perfect fit for Lucifer -- but he pretty much owns any space he’s in, or certainly plays it that way. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Although the charm of this show is in its kooky fashion, excessive pun work, aspirational fruit salad brunches and afternoon Manhattans, there are numerous issues that crop up, puncturing its decadent veneer. Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z A crew of friendly, neutral “ground control” staff patrolled the field helping weary patrons without the veneer of policing. EDC opens in Vegas to 110-degree heat and existential questions 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Fuelled by drinking that makes Mad Men look like a bunch of lightweights, the veneer on their toxic marriage finally lifts on Rosie's 16th birthday. Love, Love, Love ? review 2010-10-13T20:31:00Z Another option would be to skip the idea of using plastic laminate and instead install new wood veneer plus a durable clear coating, such as lacquer. How to replace damaged laminate on an old bedroom furniture set 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z By allowing his story to be told, the government assumed a strategic veneer of tolerance. Havana’s Vital Biennial Was Trumped by a Stifled Voice 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z I like peeling back the shiny veneer on the surface to reveal the inner workings -- all the parts you aren't supposed to see. Hope Larson and Brittney Williams discuss 'Goldie Vance,' their upcoming teen detective comic book series 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z In the beginning, it seemed preposterous, but over the course of the talk it appeared likely that Flex identified part of Tyler’s rhetorical strength: the veneer of who-me innocence. Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z But this creation, like most minimalist works, conceals its art under a veneer of simplicity. Rethinking dining value: Eating at restaurants shouldn’t be only about volume Empty Hearts’ has the veneer of a thriller but it’s more accurate to call it a chiller: chilling in the accuracy of its satire and chilling in its diagnosis of our modern malaise.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Much of his work is about the power struggles between people who try to camouflage their mutual antipathy under the veneer of social graces. ‘LaBute New Theater Festival’ Review: It’s Neil LaBute in a Minor Key 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s hard to tell from your pictures, but if the surface is veneer, it appears to be cherry or mahogany — also common cabinet options. Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Vulnerable he may be, but when the series began, this delicate flower was encased within a pomaded veneer of self-obsession and materialism, a lack of social grace and a distinctly adolescent approach to women. New Girl: move over Jess, Schmidt is the real star 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z Thrilled with their reception, the musicians come out into the audience to perform an acoustic encore, so close I can see the layers of veneer on the lead singer's mandolin. My love affair with the American bluegrass festival 2013-07-17T12:00:03Z The guide brushes an unnecessary but fun veneer of brain science over its prescriptions. People Are Still Getting Married, and This Book Is Here to Help 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “Eleven and a half minutes made us create the veneer of actual story lines and character growth without requiring that we be committed to that,” he said. Television: ?Childrens Hospital? With Rob Corddry, Now a TV Series 2010-07-09T18:51:00Z And just as Mr. Cooper is moonlighting in the world of entertainment, Mr. Beck seems to be aiming for a veneer of hard news. The TV Watch: Anderson Cooper Gets Personal on New Talk Show 2011-09-16T23:33:24Z 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. Hotel Review: The St. Regis Toronto 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Here and throughout, as when a recording of the cheesy 1970s single “Seasons in the Sun” is played, Ms. LeCompte erases the period veneer from the play entirely. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z The performance respects that restraint, and never pries too far beneath the immaculate veneers; all perfectly pleasant, but this is music to sample piecemeal rather than in large helpings. The Complete Quilter Songbook Vol 1 – review 2013-03-14T21:40:01Z In an e-mail, he recommended removing the existing veneer and filling any remaining gaps with automotive body filler, such as Bondo. How to repair water-damaged oak veneer 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Attacking both political affiliations with equal disgust, “Irresistible” seems disappointingly fatigued, its glossy veneer concealing a hollow core. ‘Irresistible’ Review: The Voters Are Red, the Message Is Blue 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Last night’s debate was a callback to that Trump-less debate in January, which also concealed its bonkers rhetoric underneath a veneer of less-fascistic civility. A calmer, cuddlier, and way more horrifying GOP takes the stage for the CNN debates 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Part of that comes from its soothing veneer: Fleetwood Mac's songs often arose from relationship tension and interpersonal drama, but the band tended to cloak these fractures in elegant poetry and empathetic sentiment. Why Fleetwood Mac's music resonated so deeply in 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The financial world is the only potential hurdle for the venture because international architectural competitions serve the master of commerce, albeit with a veneer of culture. The real iconic architecture 2010-10-01T16:43:00Z The maple patterns are inlaid in Indian rosewood using marquetry, the traditional technique of creating decorative wooden veneers. Is it design, or is it ... art? 2010-05-04T14:49:00Z This might be because the movie has been pitched at young adults, as evidenced by its pretty leads, electronic soundtrack, contemporary vibe and veneer, and caution. | 'Red Riding Hood': The Girl Who Sighed Wolf 2011-03-10T22:26:20Z But those things should remind us that the bourgeois social-democratic consensus of the European Union is a veneer pasted atop centuries of warfare, religious terror and imperialism. “Borgman” is a deeply disturbing look at the dark side of suburbia 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Despite the veneer of individualism which stars such as Stirling conjure up, that is how architectural design works. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z “Now I’m reminded that these ugly attitudes toward Asian-presenting people have always lain just under the veneer of the country, and that they are erupting now.” How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Establishment Washington was always wealthy, but most of it was old money, which required a certain veneer of respectability. ‘A married man’s fantasy’: The unapologetically sexist, wildly successful Fight Night changes course 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z This woman knows no one in The Hague, which allows her to concentrate more than she might like on the legendary city with its “veneer of civility.” Review | Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z 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. Review: In Matthew Perry’s First Play, a Chandler Gone to Seed 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The librarian remains polite, but you can see her increasingly bristle beneath the veneer. Review | An ‘Alabama Story’ that has national relevance 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Sometimes, an adult in the room just provides the veneer of maturity that helps a toddler in the room get away with everything. Perspective | John Kelly and the myth of the ‘adult in the room’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z I've concluded that a good heart beats beneath a veneer of stubborn intolerance out here in my new home state. 20 years ago, Matthew Shepard was murdered: A letter from Laramie, 1998 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Ellie, a performer herself, went full movie star with veneers back in her twenties. "You want a rich lady mouth": Could fixing my teeth fix my life? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z There’s a political tinge to those details, which presents an illusion of substance and a veneer of social conscience. “Midsommar,” Reviewed: Ari Aster’s Backwards Horror Story of an American Couple in Sweden 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Factory-made costume jewelry imitated the real thing, and cheaper woods mimicked the look of expensive ones through the use of veneers. A century after art deco’s birth, designers say we’re due for a revival 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Though he sustains a veneer of jokiness, it’s clear that he winds up thoroughly flummoxed. ‘God’ll Cut You Down,’ a True Crime Book by John Safran 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z A range of extended techniques, including bow whips, improvised pitches, vocal shouts and careening slides, revealed the ritualistic violence latent in the aristocratic hunt — the savagery underneath the thin veneer of civilization. German composer-clarinetist shows his virtuosity 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Working on paper and canvas, he gave a veneer of gentility and preternatural, even timeless calm to the Midwestern river valleys in the decades before the Civil War. Review: George Caleb Bingham’s Serene Images of Rivers and Frontier Life, at the Met 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Lest the earnestness of his parody fall on deaf ears, he makes sure his true feelings can be discerned behind the character’s veneer of Deep State anxiety. 'This show traffics in culture wars': Jordan Klepper on his Alex Jones-inspired satire 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z His book, really a series of essays on such themes as loyalty, heroism and "The Enemy Within," strips off the veneer of fiction that served him well in his best-selling novel, "Matterhorn." 'What It Is Like to Go to War': Karl Marlantes' unvarnished account of the highs, lows and tragedy of war 2011-09-07T20:06:04Z Test stains and finish on scrap pieces of veneer. My puppy chewed through the wood stair tread. What to do? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Some veneer chips are missing, and a crack has formed in the mahogany. Antiques: Hunting for Windows in a House by Frank Lloyd Wright 2011-07-07T21:49:42Z Essays, in particular, have a veneer of currency right now. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z The movie sells the same fantasy: the veneer of old-fashioned, old-world culture, without any level of difficulty. “Non-Fiction,” Reviewed: A Vacuum-Sealed View of France’s Culturati 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z The baritone Andrew Wilkowske’s portrayal of Overall captures both his manic swagger and the crumbling of his veneer. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z Born in 1891 on a farm some 30 miles from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he also seemed to be in pain yet not fully aware of it who maintained a genial veneer that appeared almost childlike. Grant Wood at the Whitney Both Thrills and Disappoints 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But Jason is not the only character in “Hand to God” whose gentle veneer has begun to succumb to the allure of anarchy. Theater Review: In ‘Hand to God,’ Steven Boyer’s Puppet Is Unfiltered 2014-03-11T02:00:02Z Meanwhile, in 2007, the British Film Institute started screening artistic and experimental videos in a monthly showcase called , giving the medium a hitherto unimagined veneer of respectability. Goldfrapp tell tales in cinema project 2014-02-27T02:04:21Z Beneath the glossy veneer of a dating show the program felt more like a clichéd confrontation between Chinese and foreign cultures. Looking for a Date as China Looks On 2011-08-07T02:00:19Z It has an effect on your skin — the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z There is a slightly old-fashioned veneer at times. Patricia Clarkson, the sultriest character actress 2010-08-07T18:01:00Z Have you seen that perfectly chiseled couple on social media, with their big veneer smiles and perfectly cuffed jeans enjoying perfectly plated food and perfectly poured craft cocktails on a perfect summer day? Gabrielle Union on why women can stop chasing after balance: It's "fictitious BS that doesn't exist" 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Yet in spite of his veneer of resignation, Sendak would still sometimes capitulate to anguish toward the end of his life. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Florez, known in the opera world as a vocal acrobat, plays a domineering king whose steely veneer crumbles when he encounters the striking Elena, revealing his sensitive core. Vocal acrobatics of "La Donna del Lago" an "Olympic" challenge 2013-05-18T15:11:39Z It exposes what seems apparent to be just a veneer. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z This was a Stars and Stripes sort of place, with a Norman Rockwell veneer. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z And Mr. Birney is excellent as ever, turning in a precise portrait of a middle-aged man trying to mask his flailing ego under a bright veneer of competence and good cheer. Theater Review: ‘Core Values,’ by Steven Levenson, at Ars Nova 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z Behind his veneer of well-being, he cannonballed through as robust a safety net as anyone with a mental illness could reasonably have, including two psychiatrists in his immediate family. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z The veneer of “Awkward Black Girl” is light, but the insides are far more substantial. Critic’s Notebook: Issa Rae and ‘Awkward Black Girl’ Are Breaking Ground 2012-07-13T22:54:29Z Despite Weinman’s claim that “Lolita” converts readers into “moral mincemeat,” Humbert’s morality is not the novel’s, even if the novel profits from what she calls his “silken veneer.” The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Its veneer is chipped, there's a hole in the right drawer, and it bears scars at knee height where chairs apparently bashed against it. SC library shows 'Catch-22' author's writing tools 2012-06-17T17:01:04Z Unsettling, even ominous corners are everywhere apparent under the serene veneer of medieval French music and literature. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church 2013-05-13T21:59:59Z Then the door is ready for new veneer. How to repair water-damaged oak veneer 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z And that bipartisanship — or even just the veneer — is critical to the other business of Washington: fundraising. Washington’s establishment hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Despite old flared jeans and no makeup, the Stones seemed very camp, hairy, comical, special and determinedly professional, despite the shambolic veneer, and the music they shared as the night progressed felt extraordinary. The night I saw the Rolling Stones jam until 7am 2012-11-25T00:05:36Z It’s an enjoyable thrill ride, slicked up with a thin veneer of Asking the Big Questions. “Prometheus”: Ridley Scott’s dazzling, sci-fi spectacle 2012-06-06T20:09:00Z A renovation in 2000 had tried to make the still-open parts of the site more traditionally Moroccan, veneering the concrete with green tile and carved wooden panels. Brutalism Springs Eternal in Morocco 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Our table is a cheaper type of wood, probably a thin veneer. How to restore a peeling kitchen cabinet 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z But “As we were held up more and more as an example to the world of how integration could work, it became more and more a veneer.” Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z 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. Striving for unity 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Under Pop’s sleek veneer lay traces of the social and political pathogens that made the ’60s in America so jumpy. Pop Art International: Far Beyond Warhol and Lichtenstein 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s far more common these days for young feminists to adopt a radical veneer. The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Skeptical journalists would occasionally try to pierce what they perceived as his perfect veneer, but they generally discovered that there wasn’t much to pierce. Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Excavations conducted in 2007, just steps from the traffic hub of Piazza Venezia, revealed two Imperial era villas embellished with mosaics, polychrome wall veneers, fountains and frescoes. In Transit: Under Rome, a Trip Back to Imperial Times 2011-04-20T10:00:30Z Mr. Fellowes holds up a bowdlerized edition of British society, where beneath a thin veneer of stratification, servants and masters are friends and confidants, and even cataclysm doesn’t break the bond. The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z These rooms may lack the opulence of the Southwest Chief’s predecessor, the “Super Chief” – whose lavish veneered interiors charmed LA-bound Hollywood stars in the 1940s – but they are quiet and comfortable. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s a testament to Yeun’s commitment that Ben’s veneer of disquieting swagger never breaks: he yawns, laughs, speaks, smokes, shakes hands, and discloses his casual pyromania all with the same air of arrogant self-possession. And the winner probably isn't: this season's 11 overlooked film performances 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z There is even a radiogram, one of the pieces which the Dowager Duchess herself is selling: it is of course a rather grand walnut veneered model by the royal jewellers Garrard and Co. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch ?2.5m 2010-07-14T09:23:00Z What are these twinkling gems doing amid articles about tooth decay and veneer restoration? Review: ‘Philip Sparrow Tells All’ Paints a Samuel Steward Portrait 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z A veneer of seriousness cuts down on the fun. Review: Singing and Dancing the Postwar Blues in ‘Bandstand’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z I loved that character -- again, it's the veneer of respectability disguising suburban prejudice of a really quite vicious and dismissive nature. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Her fiction taps and cracks the veneer of life. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z But beneath the veneer of Johnson’s proclaimed fidelity to the Constitution lurked a combative personality and deep-seated bigotry that drove his opposition to political equality for former slaves. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Appel’s basic stance is pretty facile — yes, he was deliberately avoiding the traditional profundity of the European past and embracing naivete, but that leaves you with a slender veneer over not much substance. A pair of critics on Karel Appel: Two ways of saying ‘meh’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The works by Ms. León and Mr. Lightfoot showcased the company’s power-packed, faultless technique, yet both seemed to unfold beneath an icy veneer, the performers never revealing any hint of vulnerability. Review: Nederlands Dans Theater Prizes Procedure Over Passion 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The easy symbiosis between the Fuglen partners and their Japanese staff points to a shared mindset; the veneer of effortlessness belying a rigorous attention to detail. | Culture Klatch 2014-03-05T23:13:43Z “The Good Boss” provides prime material for Bardem, who has to maintain a polished veneer even as his character’s mendacity and troubles mount. ‘The Good Boss’ Review: Company Man 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Using polemicists as pseudo-experts may give a veneer of balance, but in the end such an approach devalues the scientific method. Review was right to criticise BBC's science coverage 2011-07-21T17:06:24Z Victor fakes his way through the encounter with a veneer of condescending courtesy. Review: In ‘All Our Children,’ Moral Authority Wades Into Nazi Germany 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Victims of their affected apathy and subject, beneath their veneer of disinterested sophistication, to the same immemorial terrors and heartbreaks, Madeline, Dorian and Ethan are eminently believable. ‘An Innocent Fashion,’ by R.J. Hernández: The millennial fairy tale 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Through another lens, Lipa’s performance could be seen as a wink to the music of yesteryear — a classicist with a high-gloss veneer. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Brooklyn Rider has a trendy veneer, based partly on its interest in music that draws on other cultures and its openness to combining acoustic and electronic sound. Music Review: A String Quartet?s Nod to Debussy at Angel Orensanz Foundation 2010-03-16T21:59:00Z Through his own mask, Driver is barely recognisable from his previous film and television roles, essaying an unexpectedly deep James Earl Jones-style baritone – even if his version doesn’t quite have the original actor’s velvety veneer. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – six things we learned from the new trailer 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The veneer of Midwestern stoicism, and the aura of trouble surrounding the gallery of characters, vanish as cast members erupt into all manner of harmony. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The veneer of civilisation falls away very fast. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z But the movie is still pretty thin stuff, and after a while I missed Tangerine Dream, which at least gave the thin story and anemic characters a veneer of freshness. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z The servants have gone, supplies are dwindling, the veneer of civility peels away as hours become days. From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Koirala, a Bollywood star, brings a taut poise to a mother whose veneer seems adamantine until the Duttas walk in the door. ‘India Sweets and Spices’ Review: Gossip, Secrets and Biting Laughs 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Beneath its humorous veneer, it is a prickly, confrontational story about identity and belonging. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 7: Who’s Daniel? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z But behind the veneer, in clearly visible frames toward the end of the video, are abandoned houses and streets. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z But the sparkling veneer of this respectful production hides a much more brooding, sanctimonious and didactic play. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z Some people maintain their veneer — the Los Angeles rapper YG never appeared to break a sweat — but most struggle at least a little bit, and the struggle is the thing. ‘Hot Ones’ and Other Shows Parade the Rich, Famous and Oh So Vulnerable 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z And in a really fine set piece Mr. Spencer stages a long chase through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the relics of primitive times and the veneer of privilege always coexist. Books of The Times: ‘Breed’ by Chase Novak 2012-08-29T20:56:42Z “The Young Pope” largely reads as an implausible, if cautionary, tale of absolute power, sprinkled with hints of true divinity beneath Pius’s cruel veneer. HBO’s ‘The Young Pope’ is confounding, captivating and one of the most unsettling shows in years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Most are hewed from wood, but the artist contrasts actual, veneer and engineered forest products with translucent crimson urethane. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Her voice is whispery, as it is throughout the album, and her backup puts an acoustic veneer on an electronic foundation; two chords pull her back and forth as she weighs her options. U.S. Girls’ Luxuriously Absurd Disco, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Leaping to do your daughter’s bidding without even a veneer of civility is doing neither of you any good. My relationship with my daughter is now as bad as with my ex | Dear Mariella 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z In other words, calling a piece of furniture “oak” because it was coated in oak-colored stain or clad in oak veneer was against the rules. Misleading furniture labels: How to tell whether you have the real deal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z And so Mr. Bieber is not yet fully grown, and in his real life, he’s been doing his best to maintain at least a veneer of young-person normalcy. Pop: Justin Bieber’s Album ‘Believe’ Comes Out Tuesday 2012-06-14T12:00:00Z “Clinical trials” she bitterly concludes, are “acts of desperation made barely palatable by a thin veneer of science performed on mice.” Review | ‘Live, friends. Just live,’ a writer urges us in a memoir published after her death 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And what’s left, I think, must be blankness and rigid veneer, slick surfaces to which memory and sentiment don’t adhere. The day Vida Wayne vanished, wearing a quarter-million dollars in jewels 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z A widow’s closeness to her late husband, and her familiarity with his political beliefs, offered at least the veneer of continuity as well as a tasteful, if temporary, memorial to the deceased office holder. The Unfavored Daughter: When Margaret Chase Smith Ran in the New Hampshire Primary 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Chicken liver mousse shows up with a veneer of madeira gelee, scattering of chives and airy sea salt. Review | These three restaurants can help you keep date night on your to-do list 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Although the flashbacks slow the otherwise breakneck pace, they have an important purpose: McDermid wants to examine the complex, sinister life beneath the TV star's gaudy veneer. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z “I don’t have veneers. People really think that!” Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Beneath its charming comic veneer, the piece offers a larger lesson: what the politics of the family can reveal about the politics of the state. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Now all I wanted was the veneers, the gloss. A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z 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. Big Risks as Landmarks Preservation Commission Moves to Prune Proposed Gems 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z If your cabinets do have a wood veneer, they are almost certainly not solid wood underneath; they are much more likely to be a manufactured product, such as medium-density fiberboard. Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In its place, he said, was a “sprayed-on varnish stain veneer” of mass-produced goods, American gangster films and Tin Pan Alley songs. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z Where you sanded through the veneer, your door is probably ready for paint. For a damaged wood front door, paint might be the only solution 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z They all attempt, with varying success, to use the veneer of education to distance themselves from stereotypes that their roadside zoos are seedy and rife with abuse. Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America’s 19th-century tiger kings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Despite the veneer of objectivity his later stories required, the reader is never far from a detail that generates a disproportionate amount of descriptive light. A brief survey of the short story part 42: Danilo Kiš 2012-08-02T15:03:20Z More common access is through the considerably less dated glass-and-steel veneer of the Arts Centre on Tobin Street. Cine-files: Triskel Christchurch, Cork 2012-11-20T10:15:29Z It spends vast sums on the veneer of class, swank, luxe. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z You see, the girl who fell in love with Ben still lurks anxiously beneath the glossy veneer that Phyllis has since acquired. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z The problem for Kick-Ass 2 is that the slicker it becomes, the more it risks losing the joyous veneer of half-baked heroism that helped make the first film so singularly, enjoyably offbeat. Will Kick-Ass 2 stay offbeat as our self-made superheroes polish their act? 2013-03-14T11:54:38Z “Fifty Shades Darker” is about a man seeking substitute mothers to gag and penetrate, and yet it’s the movie’s shiny veneer that feels deviant. The Sad, Shiny Surfaces of the “Fifty Shades” Movies 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z There is Brahms’s signature striving toward classicism beneath its warm Romantic veneer. Eschenbach and the NSO play Brahms and Tchaikovsky It’s a rapid, profuse, overwhelmingly inventive comedy of sorts that uses caustic satire to blast the veneer of normalcy off of societal horrors that typically go unchallenged—when they are even acknowledged. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Vanities are veneers covering vulnerabilities, and there are layers this show doesn’t plumb. Review | ‘A Misanthrope’ brings Molière’s fabulous fakes into the 21st century 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Yes, white privilege can be so blinding that he isn’t the only one who’s managed to become enamored of the shiny veneer of Nazi chic without thinking overmuch about the actual content of Nazi ideology. Celebrity deaths and the “problematic fave”: Enough with the moral tug-of-war between “hero” and “villain” legacies 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Because beneath a veneer of mockery, Thom’s existential pain is taken surprisingly seriously. Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z So here are deviled eggs, made wickeder by breading and deep-frying the whites, crunchy veneer giving way to wobble. Butterfunk Kitchen Is Driven by Soul Food and Built on Memories 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Because frankly, most British businesses run on cheap wood veneer, a half-arsed inspirational poster and a strip-lit warren of offices that smell like the unhappy ghost of Maxwell House. Have you been watching ... Undercover Boss? 2011-08-03T10:48:22Z Scott Thomas's watchability and classy cinematography add a veneer of class to an otherwise straightforward portrait of a Lady Chatterley-ish affair. This week's new film releases 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z 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. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6: Here’s Where We Left Off 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The novel has been tinkered with and given a veneer of updating — cellphones play a prominent role, and 21st-century medical mumbo-jumbo involving genes and stem cells is tossed about. Television Review: ‘Coma,’ an A&E Mini-Series With Lauren Ambrose 2012-09-02T21:56:33Z All that allure, that veneer of endless cool, it can be a little intimidating. 'Sex and Rage' have always been the territory of the It Girl 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Behind the veneer of dutiful, encouraging wife is someone who knows the truth but needs to play along for her own sake. Regina Hall Sees the Bigger Picture With ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘Forensic Files’ 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Trump’s team knows the political power of a concise, catchy, and easily repeated phrase—and they must recognize, in “alternative facts,” a potential crack in the veneer of Trumpism. The Kind of Comedy That Can Hurt Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The walls are brick veneer; the bar, authentic mahogany. A Contender Elbows In 2011-02-18T22:42:20Z A. Mrs. Bush wanted all of the veneer in the building to be Texas pecan. | Q&A: Aaron Moser on Furnishing the George W. Bush Presidential Center 2013-04-24T22:22:13Z It looks like birch veneer on the front and walnut veneer on the back. How to repair veneer on a mid-century Kofod-Larsen chair 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z My cats, who normally hate strangers, would allow her to pet them and she would feel inspired to reveal some shard of a more authentic self that existed beneath her celebrity train wreck veneer. Ill Doctrine 2012-06-11T15:44:00Z Photograph: PA Lady Thatcher was not a woman prone to self-examination and so it was with great humility I accepted the task of protecting her legacy while maintaining a veneer of even-handedness and objectivity. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography – Volume One by Charles Moore - digested read 2013-04-22T23:52:02Z Los Angeles, despite its showy veneer, demands that kind of hyper focus. 'Inherent Vice' goes for Los Angeles as state of mind rather than destination 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Zacarías shellacs a thin veneer of seriousness on the play by having the actors intone into microphones various statistics vaguely pertaining to the plotline. Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington Is an Energizing Showcase 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z But even when her smile is at its most dazzling, as when her husband's name comes up, there's also a protective veneer that doesn't allow strangers in. Alicia Keys: 'Everything I do comes from a primal place' 2011-07-14T20:30:02Z “There’s no veneer or pretending to be something else,” he said. Spike Jonze, Cinema’s Big Kid, Gets a New Playground 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z "I hope future generations will become more agile in seeing past veneers," she said. 'Blackfish' documentary dives into killer whale captivity 2013-07-18T21:58:39Z And yet, at the same time, with that kind of objective veneer, people are just talking about themselves. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z To her public, Jackie’s identity was rarely in question, so formidably had she succeeded in paving over any hint of disturbance and self-doubt with an immaculate, strictly constructed veneer. Jackie Kennedy: The First Instagram First Lady 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z For someone so connected to New York’s various subcultures, Fab 5 Freddy recalled, Mr. Dougherty had a “strait-laced veneer” and an Orchard Street apartment that was “orderly, quaint, middle-class.” Peter Dougherty, Who Brought Rap to MTV, Dies at 59 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z But she wears a veneer of wariness, a wariness that stems from suspecting what others want of her, and why. Lean in? Here’s why the glass ceiling still exists 2013-09-15T10:59:00Z You could even argue that “Me and My Girl” is an especially useful multiple-exposure exhibit, with its veneer of modern Broadway and its weird grab bag of now-uncomfortable jokes underneath. Review: A Multiple-Exposure ‘Me and My Girl’ at Encores! 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z This is yet another dialogue "The Morning Show" embarks upon two years after cancellation debates boiled over and caramelized into bitterness, and when the concept of cancellation held the veneer of power. "The Morning Show" looks at how consequences catch up to some people sooner than others 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z A new football season will start in Happy Valley and a new season will start in Lincoln and in college towns all across the country, casting a wholesome veneer over some ugly truths. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z With their hollow legs of wound maple veneer, they were a delightful testament to this young Korean's craft skills. Planning for the future: how design students got serious 2010-07-13T13:18:00Z A glossy coat of translucent deep purple with glittering metal flakes embedded in it gives the abstract form a sensuous veneer. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z The veneer of civility required of the nine justices to work together has been eroded, she writes; Ginsburg would have been appalled by the leak of the draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Nina Totenberg was friends with RBG. Got a problem with that? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Supreme, the most prominent of Stussy’s heirs, added a New York veneer of heightened exclusivity and sophistication to that legacy; it’s equal parts retail, art project, and hangout. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Beneath the veneer of sleek accomplishment, there’s an undertow of risk. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z The movie is a comprehensive vision of monstrosity under the veneer of civilized artistic refinement. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The writing is smart and the episodes well structured, but much of the credit goes to Mr. Kinnear, who maintains a veneer of charm without stinting on his character’s underlay of seedy desperation. Television Review: In ‘Rake,’ on Fox, Greg Kinnear Is a Smart Ne’er-Do-Well 2014-01-22T22:54:04Z These snippets of song — delivered in tight close-up and accompanied by an electronic keyboard — encompass a full range of pandemic reactions, though always with a comic veneer. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z And his new sculpture/drawings made of and on birch veneer are equally good. Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In the section where the pieces come to a point at the center, the veneer has bubbled up. How to repair veneer that has bubbled up 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z "True Story" is produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B, giving it a veneer of social concerns found in other Plan B dramas such as "Selma" and "12 Years a Slave." As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Manufacturers got so many complaints about warped doors that they switched to making doors with stable cores wrapped with thin veneers. This is what happens when someone slaps veneer on a century-old wood door 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z All of this veneer and everything is to make him look the fool. The Gaudy, Glittery, Gorgeously Subversive World of Taylor Mac 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Beneath a thick veneer of gratefulness, I felt a guilty, unspoken regret. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z But to the girls’ parents and the world at large, such schools offer a veneer of respectability that a stint in rehab cannot. The Trouble With the Troubled Teen Industry 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “What I learned to do in that moment,” she explains, “was to doubt my reality; to realise that what was critical in life was the story, the veneer. And that felt like dying.” The science of addiction: a personal struggle to kick cocaine gives a neuroscientist unique insights 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z When industry is mostly a memory, the industrial is reinvented either as veneer or a stuffed mascot. What were the highs and lows of your Olympic Park experience? 2012-08-08T15:16:58Z Magnises was a template for what Mr. McFarland’s other businesses would become — a touch of celebrity, a gloss of tech and the veneer of success, thanks to social media and high-powered connections. How the Fyre Music Festival Turned Into an Epic Fail 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z In a break room that seems bolted to the building’s side, a handful of men cluster around a wood veneer conference table clutching coffee cups. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z But we’re in a curious spot today, where the music industry is manoeuvering to convince audiences that the veneer of an artist’s presence is a compelling substitute to watching a flesh-and-blood performance. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z As if history needs a kind of veneer, even in the moment. Variations on a Lead 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The entire 77th Street front would butter itself over with a thin veneer of sober gray limestone. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z But behind their warm and fuzzy veneers, these growing media companies are businesses, and they peddle in uplifting content because they believe it’s profitable. Websites Like Thought Catalog and Upworthy Aim to Uplift 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z He also proves to be far more interesting than the book's plain veneer would suggest. 'Big-Time Sports in American Universities': weighing why universities embrace and encourage major sports programs 2011-05-18T23:12:34Z Only one other supporting character is anywhere as good at cutting through “Big Little Lies’s” snobby veneer: P.J. Review | ‘Big Little Lies’ returns with more (and still more) of its exquisite, high-end suffering 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Despite its veneer of puritanism, America was a country already much preoccupied with sex – as Alfred Kinsey's renowned investigations, which he had begun the year before, were to show. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z The staging often veered into murky symbolic conceits — bolts of cloth swaddling and unspooling, a ritualistically torn newspaper — or stiff, stylized movements that clashed with the realistic veneer. Review | This production of ‘L’Enfance du Christ’ gets tangled up in current events 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The vocal is cool, exhibiting a veneer of emotional distance that suggests a numbing-down following a torrid past. New band of the day – Feathers (No 1,440) 2013-01-28T18:00:29Z Even though they have a veneer of primitivism, they’re not as simple as they look. Punk pioneer Lenny Kaye reflects back on “the original sin of rock ‘n’ roll” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Or how about January Jones' frustrated housewife Betty Draper, whose icy veneer masks a woman constantly on the verge of coming undone? Women rise to the top in "Mad Men" 2010-07-30T18:00:00Z But this relaxation into the show's next phase also allows the writers to break through the veneer of each individual's colorful cheeriness and bulk up their psychological complexity. The return of "Tuca & Bertie" sings, while ruffling some patriarchal feathers for the good of us all 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z But the mainstream art world, despite a well-advertised veneer of diversity, still barely even tries. In ‘Black Power!,’ Art’s Political Punch and Populist Reach 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But if you're looking for programming that offers a clean break from the glossy veneer of most Disney+ offerings, you're going to have to turn to, well, not Disney+. Winter TV Awards: "The Mandalorian" is a crowd-pleaser, but is it an awards player? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Inside the album’s big, vintage swing, she sings herself into places that Born to Die, with its pop veneer, couldn’t touch. REVIEW: Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence Is the Album We Need Right Now 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Chicken breast with a veneer of Parmesan comes with a pleasant-enough cream sauce, as does the poached salmon surrounded by thick, crinkle-cut carrots and monster broccoli florets. Dinner cruise on the Potomac: A moveable feast with unbeatable views As surely as the teen idol is a part of pop culture, so is the molting of her shiny veneer. Music: Miley Cyrus Is Growing Up and Testing Identities 2010-06-29T21:41:00Z As she gets more involved in her boss’s life, Annie’s polished veneer cracks, with violent consequences. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z In An Easy Girl, Zlotowski carefully deconstructs Dehar’s persona and its underpinning stereotypes, revealing the hurt behind the coy smile, the emotional burden beneath the carefree veneer. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Dig below the event's thin veneer of Christianity and you'll find a pagan springtime ritual. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Once the veneer of his bedside manner slips away, he is unrepentant and cagey, knowing just which buttons to push to agitate his captives. Nazi thriller "The Debt" set in wrong period 2010-09-07T01:47:00Z But Margo then disappears and the novel takes on the veneer of a mystery tale. Fault in Our Stars author John Green's Paper Towns gets big-screen green light 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z An envelope of mirrored stainless steel will give it a glistening veneer. Storm King to Add a New Commission to Its Permanent Collection 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Unfortunately a thin veneer of currency isn’t sufficient to revitalize a drama that feels positively quaint, despite Mr. Vidal’s winking cynicism about the political arena and his undeniable prescience about future trends in American politicking. Theater Review: ?Gore Vidal?s The Best Man? at Gerald Schoenfeld Theater 2012-04-02T02:17:15Z Kinship isn’t without faults — a misplaced dish one night, a vague veneer of roasted tofu supporting otherwise lovely rockfish — but the newcomer’s considerable assets put them in perspective. Kinship review: The welcome return of a favorite chef 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The more we can deconstruct the veneer we hide behind, the more we can break out of the isolation. Q & A: Author, activist Eve Ensler, in Seattle May 18 2013-05-16T02:09:12Z When he moves his wife, stepdaughter and son to a stately old mansion in Surrey, the veneer on their yuppie life starts to fade. Jude Law, Carrie Coon on the moody marital drama ‘The Nest’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Yet underneath this veneer of religious tolerance and you-go-girl feminism, The Brave is belligerent, even bloodthirsty. The war with no end: why American television refuses to leave the trenches 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Of greater interest, however, is the show’s veneer of staggering realism and its sense of timeliness. “This is the anti-Christ of ‘Law & Order'”: Stars and creators of “The Night Of” weigh in on the making of HBO’s engrossing crime drama 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Throughout much of the program, Mr. Veggetti’s choreography did little more than paint a thin veneer on top of Xenakis’s odd, ominous and sometimes frightening music. Dance Review: A Greek Composer?s Japanese Inspirations 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z It’s a false democracy, she thinks, a veneer behind which powerful groups can slip in and assume power. Liv Ullmann on Miss Julie, Donald Trump and why she hates the modern age 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It doesn't always work, and I often find myself sinking into the couch, scrolling through the social-media veneer of people doing fun, perhaps unsafe, things while I mope around. Upcycling old jars is self-care in its purest form 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Despite the veneer of good fun, at least one performer said that Trump had asked his roasters to steer clear of one subject: the true extent of his wealth. ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z The store also carries adhesives suitable for veneer work, as well as cherry and mahogany veneer with a pressure-sensitive adhesive backing. Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In conversation, he says he sees himself lining up opposite a well-resourced foe, as monied elites, shielded by a faux-counterculture veneer, line up to make a buck. Popular book on marijuana's apparent dangers is pure alarmism, experts say 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Civilisation is a thin veneer in the urban jungle, and Morgan wishes himself a gorilla, a big beast. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z Though despoiled of their stone veneer, mosaics and columns, the Baths of Caracalla provide an evocative setting and intensify the magic of this decades-old tradition. In Rome, Opera in Ruins 2010-07-11T10:00:00Z A romantic who hid his deeper feelings beneath a tough veneer. Books of The Times: Talent Is What Made Him Dangerous 2011-02-14T23:29:12Z Lively captures, as do few actors today, the iridescent veneers of social behavior from a more formal era, a time when public behavior and private emotion were even more sharply cloistered. Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Or witness Mary Barchetto, 44, who is running for Borough Council in Glen Rock, N.J., and who also rebelled against the idea of all the women running for office “being shelled in the same veneer.” It’s 2018: You Can Run for Office and Not Wear a Pantsuit 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z A restaurant, of course, is not a tech start-up, and compared with the overlapping communications systems used for remote office work, the social veneer of a service like HotSchedules is thin. Inside the Social World of Shift-Scheduling Apps 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z This season, she has dropped yet another layer — not of artifice, she never had that — but of the kind of performative veneer that any dance artist has. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z There’s a thin veneer of stylishness over this choreographic banality that probably persuaded some members of the audience that they were seeing something new and daring. Dance Review: They Stumble That Run Fast, These Star-Crossed Shakespearean Lovers 2011-06-24T23:17:04Z Today it seems possible that harmful racial stereotypes have been pushed further underground, obscured by a veneer of political correctness. Motherlode: Talking About Race (Etc.) 2011-03-10T18:27:57Z Atlas is least interesting in the present book when he talks about himself and tries to disguise his egoism and arrogance with a veneer of mock modesty. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Twelve-foot ribbons of elm veneer were looped on a table, awaiting application on furnishings for a Delta Hotels project in Manhattan. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard It’s Full Steam Ahead 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Under a cosy veneer – Corbett can't help but sound initially cosy – there are lovely, bleak observations about family life. When The Dog Dies 2010-05-03T07:00:00Z So the veneer stays pinned down once the area cools. How to repair veneer that has bubbled up 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Charm is a ready currency in the theater, but Lloyd’s is disarming; he seems simply to be being himself, without veneer. A Director Making His Mark in More Ways Than One 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The new, wildly popular Animal Crossing for Switch is a perfect example of a deep game hidden beneath a kiddie veneer. Video Games to Play With Your Kids That Won’t Drive You Crazy 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The veneers are no longer available for purchase on the company’s website. Teenager compares smile to ‘Mr. Potato Head’ after ordering clip-in veneers online 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z 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. Chuck Berry’s Memoir Grabs You Like a Song 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The do-gooder veneer he puts on his megalomania fools nobody, except maybe Copley. ‘The Old Guard’ Review: Fighting to the Death, and Beyond 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z He pointed out a rusty bent spike that once fixed marble veneer to the rough-hewed stone. Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z My current rental's kitchen has builder's grade maple veneer cabinets. How to make the most of your kitchen cabinets 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z It was like there was a shiny veneer over most of the city. In Munich and Dessau, Art and Design Call. But History Is Even More Compelling. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z It doesn’t take very much time to break down their veneer when we bring out . . . remote- controlled bugs.” Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z Naturally, this glossy commercial veneer rubbed some people the wrong way. It’s time for the critical reappraisal of Def Leppard, whether you like it or not 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z 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. Review: 56 Years Presenting the Best of Young Artists 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z She’s a saleswoman, after all, and the key to selling is keeping up a shiny veneer of confidence, even when there’s a silent screech of desperation threatening to leap into your throat. Theater Review: ‘Bethany,’ With America Ferrera, at City Center 2013-01-21T03:00:00Z But its autocrats are Soviet-era dinosaurs, its democracy a veneer and its cultural life stifled. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z In watching it for the first time last night, I found its peculiar disavowal of anything outside well-maintained white, middle-class brick veneer truly frightening. House Husbands, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars – TV review 2013-06-10T06:21:47Z But beneath his happy showman veneer, Holmes is a spiritual seeker and existential thinker, who in a recent video call quoted Ram Dass as often as he did Ray Romano. In ‘How We Roll,’ Pete Holmes Looks to Bowl Over Mainstream America 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Walled off from South Africa’s troubles by a veneer of libertinism and cut off from the rest of Africa by its monolithic, 3,558-foot mountain landmark, Cape Town feels like the last frontier. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Remove the paper backing from the veneer, and set pieces of wax paper toward the front of the step to keep the veneer from prematurely sticking while you carefully align the top, back edge. My puppy chewed through the wood stair tread. What to do? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Gone was the veneer of righteousness and spirituality. My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Call this politeness, call it civilisation, call it a necessary veneer of hypocrisy – we need it and when it breaks down, things get ugly. NYPD attempts to censor anticipated Park Avenue art project 2013-07-29T16:39:12Z We meet “trailer trash” characters with thick southern accents and tacky wardrobes, and the wealthy white collar strivers who are just as seedy and ridiculous under their fake veneer of elegance. Insatiable: how offensive is Netflix's controversial new comedy? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Tentative plans for the teen’s future cosmetic surgery include fillers, Botox, breast implants and teeth veneers. Woman slammed for crowdfunding butt lift after free nose job scandal 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Giger’s visions of hellish monstrosities gave the original slasher in space an enduring veneer of infernal threat, of unspeakable things from cursed netherworlds. From Alien to Nosferatu: the most horrifying movie monsters of all time 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But the troubling veneer of realness is its aim. Confronting the “Shocking” Virtual-Reality Artwork at the Whitney Biennial 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z You would need to trim the edges carefully and then stain and finish the veneer to match the rest of your cabinet. What to do when a DIY repair leads to a mishap with polyurethane glue 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z It stripped off the veneer of, your feminism has become illegitimate because now women have accrued so much power within this flawed system. Rebecca Traister: “We know what [MAGA] is code for. It’s not even a secret” 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Still, this was largely a lugubrious, tone-deaf pageant of the walking dead, played out against leafy green wallpaper and tatty wood-grain veneer. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z The show exists to prove how thin the veneer of social custom and courtesy really is, and to reveal the inner sociopath that we are supposed, at all costs, to suppress. Festival Dispatch: Life Lessons from Larry David 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z On Tuesday Richard Plepler, the chief executive of HBO, said he regretted that a show he described as a complex exploration into “the thin veneer of civilization” was announced with a brief news notice. HBO Boss Regrets Announcement of ‘Confederate,’ but Not its Concept 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Student pieces like the Sonata in F-Sharp Minor display a veneer of skill but little originality. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z One is a descent into the nightmare of the unconscious; the hidden lusts, and brutality lying under the veneer of civilisation. Modernism's first wave: turn-of-the-century literature 2013-01-17T11:44:48Z Only the brutally written “Dirge” brings out rough cracks in his vocalism’s delicate veneer. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Besides, look around, outside of downtown: the economic veneer has chipped in recent years, but the legacy of mob-run spectacle and sensation is still astonishing. Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z But the vérité veneer disguises the movie’s pointed use of place and space. If You Want to Learn About the L.A. Rebellion Filmmakers, Start Here 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z One of the many outrages that Smith portrays so powerfully is that white atrocities must never be acknowledged, the veneer of Southern gentility must never be scratched no matter how horrific the crime. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z 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. Pushback 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Crunch is a sound the owner also offers with his meatballs, shaped from beef, pork and veal shoulder, and fried so their bread-crumb veneer practically registers on a decibel meter. Alta Strada invites diners on a Roman holiday 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z And as a collective, they had an almost mystical veneer. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “They gave Barney contacts, a nose job and bigger veneers. Sad,” read another tweet. Barney’s coming back, but people are mostly talking about his nose job 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Scrubbing with fine-gauge steel wool and then applying oil is often appropriate as a way to restore the surface on teak furniture, whether it’s solid teak or laminated with just a teak veneer. How to clean old tile grout that’s become unsightly 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The private box is the only remaining one in the hall to retain the original timber veneer and mirrored panels, estate agent Harrods Estates said. Royal Albert Hall box for ?550K 2011-08-02T11:22:39Z Nearly a century later, it still reads as something new and different though its subject, the tragedy of desiring most what Ernest Shackleton called the “veneer of outside things,” is an old one. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z What's concerning is Allen's choosing to top off his show's overall veneer of homespun sweetness with such direct shout-outs to white male resentment, expecting that somehow we are supposed to laugh it off. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The actor captures keenly the veneer of jovial camaraderie, but the wounding — perhaps wounded — man who destroyed one family and then set about quickly building another thousands of miles away never registers very strongly. | 'Lemon Sky': ?Lemon Sky? by Lanford Wilson at Clurman Theater - Review 2011-09-28T02:30:33Z If you want to tackle the work yourself and scraping off existing veneer is something you’re willing to do, you can buy replacement veneer at a woodworking store. Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Maurery has great fun with the character, a tricky part because Maria nearly always maintains a kindhearted veneer, even at her most venal. Review: ‘The Teacher,’ a Classroom Satire on Political Corruption 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The dessert that calls to my inner Beaver Cleaver is the Tandy cake, a sponge cake spread with a veneer of peanut butter followed by chocolate icing. Preserve restaurant review: Grounded in tradition, lifted by invention 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z “And if you put on new veneer, you still have to sand and finish it. So it’s better to just get a new drawer or door and stain that.” Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Despite its old school veneer, Hanx Writer features the ability to email, print or share documents, as well as saving them for future revision. Tom Hanks typewriter app tops iTunes store chart 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Dating is just a veneer that these shows use to plumb the depths of human discomfiture. Swipe left: why dating shows have become irrelevant 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z And as much as I admire the perfectly cooked squid, mussels and more on the paella, available in medium and large, they’re scattered on a mere veneer of bomba rice. Review | The new Boqueria in Penn Quarter knows how to throw a party, starting with roast chicken 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z So I’ve had several projects related to distracting the sitter from their practiced poses into something more akin to reality, albeit an artificially engineered veneer of it. Turning orgasm into art 2012-08-24T23:28:00Z Doors made that long ago weren’t originally coated with veneer. This is what happens when someone slaps veneer on a century-old wood door 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z 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. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z She meets a former friend-turned-enemy as they both confront a potential financial disaster "lurking beneath the inn's cheerful veneer." 'A People's History of the Seattle Mariners' and other NW books 2012-04-02T23:12:04Z For the guy who’s all about appearances, Twitter provides the veneer of populist connection without the hassle of accountability. Trump, Twitter and the Art of His Deal 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z "It had this museum-like veneer in our part of the world," he says. Peter Gabriel on 30 years of Womad – and mixing music with politics 2012-07-26T19:00:01Z In this, the play’s emotional highlight, Damon’s veneer of dogged acceptance briefly slips to reveal the still naturally responsive heart underneath. | 'When I Come to Die': When the Final Curtain Doesn?t Fall 2011-02-11T03:01:32Z Ligeti’s architecture is clearer, not only because the work is split into five distinct, contrasting movements, but also because sudden fortissimo bursts, amid long stretches of quietly eerie writing, create a veneer of dramatic intensity. Music Review: Sounds of a New World, a Few Years On 2011-03-29T21:50:16Z The walls of the narrow bathroom were covered in a veneer of white, gray-veined marble. Check In/ Check Out: Hotel Review: House Hotel Bosphorus, in Istanbul 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z Thicke always played the smooth ladies’ man in his songs, his slick veneer softened by neediness. Robin Thicke, 'Blurred Lines' album review 2013-07-29T16:08:00Z A skinless, boneless breast is floured and fried just enough to provide a veneer of golden crunch. 50 North puts fresh twist on American standards 2011-06-23T20:45:04Z The strict architecture of the piece is underlined by the plain mahogany veneer punctuated by small chiseled steel fittings. A Gathering of Treasures 2010-09-17T18:00:00Z While she comes off as an exhibitionist onstage, in private Ms. Schumer is introverted, sometimes melancholy, with bouts of insecurity occasionally breaking through her acerbic veneer. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central Show, From the Inside 2013-04-18T12:00:01Z “Breaking Bad” feels most alive when capitalism is being acted out violently, rather than the veneer of domesticity of the middle seasons, suggesting that it is in capitalist domesticity that we are least energized. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z A 1766 cabinet designed by Martin Carlin with Japanese lacquer and an ebony veneer is similar to one on exhibit at the Louvre. Art Review: The Salon: Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory 2012-11-08T22:20:07Z They only see my veneer, the confident person – confident because of our daily phone calls. A letter to… my psychiatrist, who exploits me 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z But these days, there’s a growing demand for painstakingly customized, natural-looking veneers created by professional dental ceramists, offering a balance of lifelike translucency and opaque whiteness. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z Hadelich is a sunny player, and here he gave radiant warmth and a veneer of thoughtfulness to a piece I tend to think of as tedious. Review | In festival opener, a small orchestra shows it deserves the spotlight 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z It features high ceilings, walls of windows, hand-scraped oak floors, glazed veneer plaster walls, hand-cast moldings, and polished mahogany doors and trim. Bay Area Mansion Sells for $47.5 Million, Breaking Records 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Without that, we risk falling prey to what Josef Goebbels called the big lie, in which falsehoods, repeated often enough, take on the veneer of truth. David K. Shipler's 'Freedom of Speech' reflects our fractured times 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z For Chinese élites who are eager to adopt lifestyles commensurate with their massive wealth, such status symbols lend a recognizable veneer of Western-style aristocracy. China’s Butler Boom 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But she never let anyone see behind her beautiful, stoic veneer. What I learned about love during my years of reporting on weddings 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z There is little in the way of plush carpets, exotic veneers and plump armchairs, yet the building is anything but unfriendly. James Murdoch's Sky scraper 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z And when the authorities finally track the group down, Morris doesn't spare them his withering eye: the cops are as incompetent as everyone else, despite their veneer of technological sophistication. Four Lions | Review 2010-03-25T19:45:00Z These websites, many emphasizing romance and long-term commitment, hide lies aplenty—about height, weight, education, the real year a profile picture was taken—underneath their veneer of respectability. My geriatric “catfishing” cautionary tale 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Even tables that appear to be made from wooden planks glued together are often made with veneers because veneered tabletops tend to stay flatter. Making a worn oak table look like new 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Trump dropped any remaining veneer of politeness this month with a series of tweets accusing Obama — without offering evidence — of illegally surveilling Trump Tower during the campaign. Two months out of office, Barack Obama is having a post-presidency like no other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z She watched Black women walk out of the salon a bit healed, if not armed with a veneer of self-esteem and several bags of Kanekalon braided into their hair. Ami Colé Fills a Void In Black Beauty Products 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z If you like overstuffed costume dramas with a veneer of literacy layered over debauchery, latch on. Review: ‘Will’ Serves Up a Very 21st-Century Shakespeare 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z The Times tried to cloak its news with a veneer of respectability, but the sounds of the street could still be heard through the newsprint. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z 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. Seymour M. Hersh — the Journalist as Lone Wolf 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Back then, American TV shone with a veneer of peak optimism. ‘Party of Five’ Makes the Personal Political 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z So, in his art, is he trying to point out that beneath the veneer of civilisation we're all seething ids and repressed psychotics? How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z Williams wasn’t exposed to much comedy, but one experience showed him that jokes could be a way to connect with his father by breaking through his cold veneer. “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind”: 10 things we learned from new doc 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The facade is not thin veneer or glass but brushed Milford Pink stone milled at the same granite quarry John Russell Pope used in the 1930s to design the museum’s pompous Central Park West facade. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z In his world that civility involves camouflaging unruly animal instincts under a veneer of wit. Music Review: Return to Civility, With Wit and Rhyme 2011-01-20T22:47:11Z If you feel a jagged edge where the cherry color stops, it’s veneer. Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Over that core, manufacturers glue a thin veneer of natural wood. This is what happens when someone slaps veneer on a century-old wood door 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z I’ve heard some valid criticisms of the way Sorkin has modulated Atticus as a more withdrawn character, whose veneer of moral certainty, in Daniels’ magnificent performance, hides deep emotions he is unwilling to release. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But Ly-Yhang, when speaking of her parents, momentarily allows the veneer of matrimonial normality to slip. Deported and 9,000 Miles Apart, but ‘You Stay With the Person You Love’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In the face of epidemic disease, a city loses the veneer of normal routines. A plague in both these novels: why does disease make such infectious fiction? 2011-01-12T17:28:16Z The stripping away of some of that veneer of palpability, I think is incredibly important and crucial to the growth of a feminist conversation and having it drilled down to realer places. Rebecca Traister: “We know what [MAGA] is code for. It’s not even a secret” 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z She’s able to switch into a cold, calculating veneer that I don’t know if I have — I guess I must, because it can come out of me. Melanie Lynskey on That Chilling ‘Yellowjackets’ Finale 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z You lose nothing if you order the rice with the excellent chicken instead, poached with bay leaves and cloves and pan-fried for a crisp veneer right before serving. A Menu Ruled by Chance at Iraqi House in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Paintings are made from wood veneer with scorched plumes of black, or thin sheets of welded steel. Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Kerr hit upon the idea of stripes as a reference to the “lines or layers” of veneer, which was made in Chisenhale’s building in its original guise as an early 1900s veneer factory. The Artistry of Inconspicuous Quality 2010-05-02T18:00:00Z But look past Singapore’s shiny veneer and you’ll find a compression of Chinese, Indian, Malay and other heritages reaching back far beyond the city state’s half-century history as an independent nation. 36 Hours in Singapore 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The glossy appearance and trappings may evoke standard Anglophile nostalgia, but below the veneer is a cynical portrait of bored, shallow Britons halfheartedly going through the motions of a celebration. Movie Review: ‘Cheerful Weather for the Wedding,’ With Elizabeth McGovern 2012-12-06T21:22:23Z More than that, Interpol's veneer will never fully be transparent, meaning there's always something more to peel away and discover. The secret to Interpol’s ongoing success 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Hapless newlyweds with copious personal issues simmering beneath the veneer of puppy love, Stefan and Valerie are spellbound by the Countess and her doleful assistant while honeymooning at a decadent seaside resort in the off-season. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The affidavit maintains unfinished fingerboard blanks that are more than a centimeter thick cannot be exported under Indian law; only finished pieces of veneer, about half as thick can be exported. ArtsBeat Blog: Famed Guitar Maker Raided by Federal Agents 2011-08-31T16:52:11Z If hardwood isn’t an option, solid wood veneers are better than laminate, he said. The household items you need for an updated, grown-up home 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Their recent album, “Afraid of Heights,” has a slick production veneer that keeps their Pixies-brand harmonies and incorrigible D.I.Y. energy intact. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Merrywood was neither merry — certainly not at the end of the Dickersons’ residence, when his father, C. Wyatt, lost his fortune and divorce shattered the veneer — nor wood. Face time with John Dickerson, the new host of ‘Face the Nation’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z 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. In a New Biography of the Bouvier Women, Jealousies Rule 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s a reminder that underneath Ms. Grande’s veneer of calm and certainty pulses doubt, anxiety and heart. The Playlist: Ariana Grande Shows Her Heart, and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The East Building of the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C., married a sharp, trapezoidal construction with a monumental marble veneer. The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z All of this makes for a riveting album, one that has something much more sinister happening underneath its cheery veneer. Sleigh Bells Turn it Up on Reign of Terror 2012-02-23T16:59:55Z Murray plays with a fierce intensity and commitment that gave each of the works a veneer of greatness. Review | A violinist veils herself in virtuosity 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The cases and drawers are wood, but the tops and sides are particleboard with a thin, plastic veneer. How to replace damaged laminate on an old bedroom furniture set 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Plaza chipped away at her sarcastic veneer with the 2012 indie comedy “Safety Not Guaranteed,” in which she is a somewhat earnest writer. Aubrey Plaza Is Dangerously Funny 2013-07-11T17:02:12Z Beneath the veneer of baffling musicality, it's evident there's nothing new under the sun, no matter what galaxy you're in. Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z In Mr. Mahalchick’s best work an almost devotional sense of precision shines through a thin veneer of slovenliness. Art In Review: MICHAEL MAHALCHICK: ?It? 2012-04-12T19:53:50Z Despite her veneer of wounded innocence, it was increasingly obvious Alexis was revelling in the attention. Jonathan Bernstein's aerial view of American TV 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z Did a Lot Band of Outsiders specializes in men’s clothes that allow the veneer of respectability without the stress of acquiring it. Shopping at Band of Outsiders 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The thin veneer on our wood table was chipped; my plastic chair stuck to the back of my legs. Journeys: In Singapore, Drinking in the Kopitiam Experience 2012-06-29T15:28:14Z Different as this approach is, "Normal People" is still a teenage love story, only one that trades sunnier lighting and rosy filters for a hard, silver veneer and the cloaking dim of bedroom privacy. "Normal People" takes a common teenage love story and matures to a rated-M, sex-driven heartbreak 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Tables like yours are solid wood only on the edges and legs; the top is veneer because the wood stays flatter that way and you get the look of beautiful, wide wood. How to restore a 1956 walnut dining set’s luster Instead, without the distracting veneer of a nice beach sarong, the pageant felt more antiquated. Perspective | The ‘new’ Miss America and the trap of ladylike expectations 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “The King’s Speech” is a pudding of a movie, easy in, easy out, and its lack of chew is ideal for those porcelain veneers twinkling in the dark at the Kodak. Film: Oscars? Red Carpet (Parallel Universe) 2011-03-02T12:42:49Z Likewise, Markita Prescott and Christopher Livingston, as Peanut Brittle and Oliver Oak, apply inventive comic veneers to characters built on loss. Review: In ‘Wilder Gone,’ the Pull of Soil, Soul and Preacher Sex 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The veneers of many of these buildings are made of terra cotta, too. Tracking the Seattle urban bestiary with the Seattle Architecture Foundation 2011-01-06T20:16:05Z They’re played with a veneer of worldly good manners by Redmond and by an equally nimble Michael Glenn as a sort of agent for the young man. Review | Two Irish comedies shine in the heart of the city 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Beneath her perky veneer and many layers of makeup, however, Anna’s skin erupts with unsightly volcanos of distress, and her food is rarely permitted to remain in her stomach. Movie Review: ‘Somewhere Slow,’ Directed by Jeremy O’Keefe 2014-01-31T00:52:51Z Then comes the solid veneer sealing everything in, the unbreakable finish: I’m here, and someone else is not and never will be again. “We can’t just be going through all of this for nothing”: The final season of “The Leftovers” finds its power in the confusion of loss 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z To me it was the beginning of him dropping this veneer of sarcasm and satire. Daniel Clowes?s Retrospective at the Oakland Museum 2012-03-30T13:43:38Z The colors produced by the film infuse a vintage aura, brushing on a veneer of nostalgia. Photography From the Year Time Stopped 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z The Travel Channel knows that the first step in creating a veneer of excitement is an eye-catching title. Travel Channel’s ‘Xtreme Waterparks’ and ‘Insane Coaster Wars’ 2012-07-03T12:00:14Z As she strove anxiously to keep our plates filled and our glasses topped up, Roy and I eyed each other beneath the veneer of polite conversation. My geriatric “catfishing” cautionary tale 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The last step imparts a crisp veneer on the fork-tender duck. First Bite: Chez Billy Sud, now welcome in Georgetown Nicks in the mahogany veneer did not deter bidders from running it above the high estimate. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z At a time when even our appointed experts rarely know what’s really going on, the veneer of respectability is always at risk of tumbling down. The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The empty stylistic veneer extended to most of the soloists as well. Mariinsky Ballet's 'Raymonda' at Segerstrom: Why love story could use a little heart 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Instead, this case reminds us that it is under the veneer of normality that we should be looking for the most hideous crimes. Shafilea Ahmed's murder is a crime meshed in migration and modernity 2012-08-05T19:30:06Z In his memoir, Williams remembered himself as a shy boy who concealed his insecurity "behind a veneer of cheek and self-confidence." 'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at age 84 2012-09-26T14:41:23Z Storytelling through flashback always has the veneer of sophistication, as if any deviation from a straightforward narrative is inherently interesting. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 12: Your Child Is Your Child 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The shows draw is its veneer of family-friendly innocence, and even its most controversial participant, Sarah Palin, has been defanged by the political establishment. "The Masked Singer" may not normalize Rudy Giuliani, but its a crime to even try to make him cuddly 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z For more fleeting uses of news networks in scripted series, creating a network avoids the need to recruit actual news personalities and to get permissions, while still presenting the veneer of realism. Sorkin?s Newsroom Plans Premiere, Adds to Vast History of Fake TV Networks 2012-02-08T17:27:12Z Most novelists prefer to maintain a distance between themselves and their characters; it preserves a veneer of sanity. Sue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five' 2013-03-18T09:00:06Z The veneer of the detached visitor crumbles as he considers his young daughters and how easily a predator could reach their bedroom windows. Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z There’s a concern you’re just sort of tossing it into this gumbo and giving the show an intellectual veneer when those characters’ actions and motivations don’t correlate to their namesakes. Television: The Men Who Made ABC?s ?Lost? Last 2010-05-14T01:15:00Z The article describes one of the veneers, and an interesting one, but there is real substance beneath this chunk of the U.S., as there is elsewhere. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Broccoli later said: “I wanted a ballsy guy ... Put a bit of veneer over that tough Scottish hide and you’ve got Fleming’s Bond.” Sir Sean Connery obituary 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s an album as all-night term paper written frantically on 40 milligrams of Adderall and four Red Bulls, turned in with a clear plastic folder to suggest a veneer of professionalism. Review | Kanye West’s ‘Ye’ is the unedited ramblings of the world’s oldest adolescent 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of classical training in it, but it’s very much embedded underneath a more naturalistic veneer. Twyla Tharp and Her Dancers Look Back, Mindful of the Future 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “All I see of them is the veneer,” said Matthew D’Agostino, 45, a photographer from Baltimore who freelanced for The Daily Mail from 2017 until earlier this year. The Paparazzi Staked Outside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s D.C. Home 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z But that veneer of propriety and restraint fell away when the trolley of roast meats arrived tableside. Feasting in Verona, Italy’s city of Romeo and ravioli 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z However naive the dramaturgy or child-like the humour, Vick respects it and never tries to impose an extra veneer of sophistication. Mittwoch aus Licht 2012-08-23T00:44:22Z He still did not entirely believe this was happening — his lead in the polls, the new veneer of being taken seriously. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z But even allowing for roommate style differences, I suspect a lot of us recognize Stacy: someone trained to believe the only way to be strong, respected and liked is to maintain a veneer of perfection. Carolyn Hax: Wanting to break free from defensive and controlling roommate Rather, a network of people, sometimes unwittingly, repeatedly helped lend these fake paintings a veneer of credibility. Selling a Fake Painting Takes More Than a Good Artist 2014-05-02T21:48:29Z Originally, they come with a veneer of artful mess, but the songs prove that to be a lie: there’s polish in Howler’s future, because there’s structure in its present. Music Review: The Minneapolis Band Howler at Pianos - Review 2012-01-19T23:28:18Z If the veneer suggests fragility, the women’s gazes are forthright. Review | In the galleries: Artistic reflections on what mortality leaves behind 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z But she is hampered by an overtly theatrical veneer, and the power plays between her and her fellow dancer, Niall Jones, were rather too coy and identifiable to long engage the mind. Dance Review: Danspace Project?s Parallels Series at St. Mark?s Church 2012-02-25T00:10:17Z Brief quotes give the text the veneer of nonfiction, and keep the narrative at arm’s length, rather than pull you close as fiction often attempts to. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z And, in an era of digital living, twisting Mobius-strip chairs and kidney-shaped coffee tables seem more relevant than veneered antiques. Salon Art + Design, a Fair With Wit, Cheek, History 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z My son is me with a particularly tough veneer of autism: he’s a bit lazy, finds most things hilarious and is given to bouts of self-injurious behaviour. Seen Rain Man? That doesn’t mean you know my autistic son 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Granted, Bell's acting was enhanced by performance-capture technology, which layers computer animation onto actors to add a veneer of recognition as well as the atmosphere of the old comic books populated by villains and heroes. AP Interview: Bell seeks to channel Tintin 2011-10-21T15:55:12Z Vogel, in his interviews with Rogers, attempts to break through what he considers to be his subject’s veneer of calculated, strategic, and tightly crafted decency, in order to find the unvarnished person behind it. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z A later change of clothes seems as arbitrary as the deliberately meandering movement, a sort of amateur veneer laid over clearly trained bodies. Dance Review: Watch It Tonight, Consider It Tomorrow 2011-04-21T21:45:17Z Also, be forewarned that the cured epoxy might absorb stain differently than the veneer, so press some onto a scrap piece of wood and use that to test the color. How to fix chipping cabinet doors 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z But my veneer of normality was convincing enough for my girlfriend – who later became my wife – to move in with me. 'I quit my job. Drink gushed into the space I left for it': confessions of an alcoholic 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z A tale of vengeance, “John Wick” has an equally high body count, but it’s better structured, more modulated, and has a brittle veneer of high-mindedness. ‘Bullet Train’ Review: Ride and Die 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z For extra insurance, spread water-based contact cement with a low-nap, small roller over the whole tread and the edge before applying the veneer. My puppy chewed through the wood stair tread. What to do? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z In other words, Disney is selling a veneer of feminist empowerment because it’s profitable. Seattle stages will soon be packed with princesses. Is that a problem? 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The result: small golden pouts, three bites at most, with a crispy veneer. Doughnuts in New York City from Carpe Donut NYC to Pies 'N' Thighs 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z PARENTS+KIDS=WAR Sitcoms built around a family may have a veneer of love, but that is covering a warmongering heart. Television: ?New Girls,? ?2 Broke Girls,? ?Last Man Standing?: New Season for Old Jokes 2011-11-23T14:30:42Z His front-four veneers are so lifelike, he said, that they fooled his girlfriend of more than two years. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z Mr. Gergiev’s performance caught those qualities, especially the campy veneer, which is somehow crucial to preventing the music from slipping into sentimentality and keeping its strangeness on the surface. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z “I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer,” he said. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z Ken chose a brick exterior with stucco veneer, accented with stained cedar, for its low maintenance as well as its tendency to look better with age. Rural Cottage with Character 2013-04-19T21:20:12.147Z Mr. Dawes’s defense of his profession — sarcastically mocked by Dante — lends his character a touch of pathos under the macho veneer. ‘The Muscles in Our Toes’ Follows Friends on a Mission 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Well, yes, and it may be a good cause and a just cause, but what you get will not be a novel – it will be a political tract with a veneer of fiction. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z But the veneer of patient, disinterested inquiry cannot disguise Cézanne’s diabolical oddity. Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The chilly, exacting Upper West Side socialite has gathered a circle of sycophants at her Connecticut country house to witness her gnashing her veneers over the recent election of Donald Trump. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The movie’s enameled veneer is what holds it together, and once you strip that away, the whole sparkly edifice crumbles, leaving … well, all Mr. van Hove seems to have found is a vacuum. Review: ‘All About Eve’ Gets the Vampire Treatment from Ivo van Hove 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z This is architecture as veneer, as drone fodder, as brochure material. Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Beneath the silk veneer of Martin's ascot push is a simpler notion: Washingtonians should loosen up a little bit. Ascot ascendant? Martin eyes neckwear comeback 2010-05-14T22:17:00Z But its fast section sounds almost Brahmsian, with only a veneer of modernist acidity. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z Compared with the determination of so many other comics to tear through society's bourgeois veneer, this is quite charming. Comedy gold: Jason Manford's Live at the Manchester Apollo 2013-02-14T14:03:04Z Hartley asks, using the mountain dialect that comes so easily to Mr. Rash and gives a veneer of folk-art Americana to his elegantly sophisticated work. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z But such full-bodied expression assumed an artificial veneer. Critic’s Notebook: Trespassing on the Proving Ground of the Next Generation 2013-07-28T21:30:12Z As such, it can feel irritatingly artificial and insubstantial — beneath the philosophical and literary veneer, there’s not a whole lot going on. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z 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. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The black-and-white 1950s sitcom is named after a perfect town with perfect people — one that starts to lose its glossy veneer once David and Jennifer bring reality into the frame. What’s on TV Tuesday: Gabriel Iglesias and Super Bowl Commercials 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “Farewell to Hollywood” is moving yet queasily unsettling, even if Ms. Nicholson’s enthusiasm mitigates the veneer of exploitation. Review: ‘Farewell to Hollywood,’ the Last Years of a Budding Filmmaker 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z And what if it’s not a veneer problem? Restoring cabinet veneer may take more than elbow grease 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Refacing is also an option, but it costs significantly more because the job usually involves buying new doors and drawer fronts as well as covering exposed parts of cabinet boxes with laminate or wood veneer. How to renew whitewashed cabinets 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “The Getaway” ultimately asks what price is too high to pay for the veneer of safety — and what happens when that veneer cracks? 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z As performed with dexterous felicity by the reliably excellent Mr. Birney, this seemingly mundane half-conversation offers us a devastating glimpse of the submerged desperation beneath Joseph’s veneer of chipper carrying on. | 'Tigers Be Still': Escaped Predator? What Else Is New? 2010-10-07T02:01:00Z One of the many outrages that Smith portrays so powerfully is that white atrocities must never be acknowledged, the veneer of Southern gentility must never be scratched no matter how horrific the crime. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z 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. On the Internet, No One Knows You’re Not Rich. Except This Account. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z There’s chatter about Swiss schools, fine hotels, family castles, the good old days — all of which helps maintain the veneer of normalcy. ‘Azor’ Review: A World on Fire, Discreetly 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z So this memoir includes an appreciative chapter about Ms. Coddington’s working relationship with Ms. Wintour, about how much Ms. Wintour loves her children, works hard, maintains a steely veneer and so on. Books Of the Times: Grace Coddington Gives Inside Look at Vogue in Memoir 2012-11-25T21:43:40Z You do get to see her lose that veneer later in the season. Q&A: Newcomer Allison Tolman gets her big break on ‘Fargo’ 2014-05-01T19:02:41Z Her ongoing rerecordings project layers a veneer of artistic liberation atop a business tug of war with the owners of her master recordings. Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Schumer brings with her a veneer of spiky feminist cool, not to mention a singular mode of warm-hearted yet hard-hitting satire. Living doll: why Amy Schumer's the best thing to happen to Barbie 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z But the adhesive in pressure-sensitive veneers doesn’t hold up in exterior applications. How to repair water-damaged oak veneer 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Still, the timing might be right for both, simply because in recent years, glam rock's sound and veneer have bubbled up into the cultural consciousness. It’s time for Roxy Music’s debonair art-glam to get its due 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Danny Farrell We know that Don's veneer is cracking, but tonight we see just how far. Mad Men: series three, episode ten 2010-03-24T22:45:00Z The form that most influences these pages seems to be the screenplay, and despite her stylish intelligence and sparkplug characters Oyehaug struggles to scratch the narrative’s cinematic veneer. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z More than 60 years later, at most every MFA workshop in America, writers strive for local color and the veneer of authenticity it provides. Lindsay Hunter's 'Ugly Girls' plays it safe in the dark 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Safermedia is just one of many religiously inspired lobby groups for whom the sexualisation debate has provided an easy route into the media and a veneer of credibility on the left wing. Reactionary forces are shaping the debate on internet porn 2010-12-23T15:30:00Z This is a sadder, more fragile way to be survivor; it doesn’t uphold any veneer of virtue or valor, it simply gets her through another hard night into another cold day. Sansa Stark has always been a warrior: She’s been fierce all along — and it kept her alive 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Sonmez's lawsuit shines a light on just how harmful and dangerous this pursuit of the glossy veneer of "media objectivity" can be for marginalized journalists. “Being emotionally closer to stories isn’t weakness”: Inside Post reporter's bombshell lawsuit 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Everything just had a new kind of veneer on it that was the same thing the day before and the month before. Pamela Adlon on ending "Better Things": "It hasn't been a piece of cake — but it's been a total joy" 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Made from little pieces of birch veneer glued together every which way, these upright silhouettes are finished off with graphite scribbling and color. Lucky DeBellevue: ‘Open Concept’ 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Propaganda this may have been, but how extraordinary, in 1942 – with the war far from won – playfully to imply that the home-front manners of British decency could easily be an insidious veneer. Film review: Went the Day Well? 2010-07-08T22:20:00Z Along comes “3C,” a flat-footed black comedy by David Adjmi that tries to excavate the grime lurking underneath the sitcom’s perky, glossy veneer. Theater Review: ‘3C,’ by David Adjmi, at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 2012-06-25T02:00:00Z Men who, like Don Draper, use a veneer of professional success and cultivated masculinity to mask their true identities. 'Mad Men' recap: Doing it their way 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The chairs are available in cherry or oak veneer from $4,100; a limited edition upholstered in hide, is $5,500. Where Is Design Going? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z No surprise, really: Le Poisson Rouge, in both its chic veneer and its earnest disregard for genre boundaries, has embraced a style and ethos fostered by the Kronos Quartet for more than three decades. Music Review: A Quartet Mixes It Up With Younger Voices 2010-10-11T22:00:00Z While those authors toyed with facts, both books retained the veneer of truth. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The most common subject for Pop art in the 1960s was other art, buried within a commercial veneer of advertising, magazines, tabloid newspapers and — famously in Lichtenstein's case — comic strips. 5 pieces in the Broad collection that highlight Pop art history 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z To achieve today’s desirable veneer of innocence, the industry recommends a practice of constant, self-diagnostic work. “Morgan,” “The Girls,” and the Beautiful Cyborg 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet education advocates say that these bills provide only the veneer of choice for parents, while removing parents’ avenues for demanding accountability via collective action. Playing for Michelle Obama 2012-06-11T21:25:00Z Behind the slapstick veneer, however, the actress wrestled with a host of personal travails. Judy Carne, Actress Known as the 'Sock-It-To-Me Girl', Dies 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Sadwith — a seasoned television writer, director and producer making his feature debut — adds faint echoes of “Catcher” while lending a polished veneer, most evident in a romantic scene amid swirling milkweed seeds. Review: ‘Coming Through the Rye’ Tracks Down J.D. Salinger 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z |
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