Sentence examples for a patina of devotion from inspiring English sources

The museum itself plays straight man to the Stooges without returning their jabs and brawling, laying a patina of devotion over the irreverence and provocation.

Elsewhere, there are homages to everything from UK garage to jungle to handbag house: perhaps as proof that almost anything can attain a patina of respectability with age, Deeper Devotion sounds exactly like something Jeremy Healy would have played at Angels in Burnley around the time football was reputed to be coming home.

Yet lately Italian politics had acquired a patina of stability.

From the start, there was a patina of altruism.

It possesses a patina of sightly grainy mistiness.

Along the way they acquired a patina of counterculture.

Prints take on a patina of time and travel.

Grisly deaths, with a patina of PBS respectability.

Would the United Nations give the attack a patina of legality?

But there's a magic about it too, a patina of glamour.

We may have run out of anti-capitalist ethoses to give products a patina of cool.