Sentence examples for a varnish of from inspiring English sources
It is partly, I think, in the narrator's poetically heightened language, which coats events in a varnish of subjectivity.
Like "Billy Elliot," the surface is rough and profane enough, and the acting sufficiently restrained, to cover the sentimental story with a varnish of gritty realism.
The story of Angie (Radha Mitchell), a glowing, young suburban mother who loses her baby boy to sudden infant death syndrome, is drenched in eerie sound effects that lend the movie a varnish of supernatural horror.
He could have been designed to erase any traces of the American faith in England as a green and pleasant land, where you might once have acquired a decent education and a varnish of manners.
Eastwood brings a kind of old-fashioned, valedictorian, fallen-soldier tone to proceedings that, bar Kyle's wraparound shades, feels more like a relic of second-world-war classics; coupled with awards talk, American Sniper comes with a varnish of elder-statesmen respectability able to attract disparate age groups.
Although the original Mass Effect was promoted as a go-anywhere, do-anything exploration game, it was in fact merely a varnish of exploration layered over an admittedly good action RPG.
Once, years ago, a pipeline burst and left a thick varnish of oil on the canal for miles, he said.
A fragile varnish of class and normalcy has cracked.
Eschewing thorough impersonation, Mr. Bamman and Mr. Mellor nevertheless trim their performances with enough familiar vocal and physical mannerisms to put a thin varnish of verisimilitude on these famous fellows.
It risks falsely dignifying these deplorable acts with an undeserved varnish of higher motive.
However, it should be noted that natural fissures might have various shapes, thus allowing different retention of a varnish applied and different access of toothbrush bristles.
