In this family, as in every family, the veneer sometimes cracks.
Erase all the visible pencil marks, then lightly sand the jagged edges of every piece of veneer you've cut.
BOSTON - THERE has been too much peacenik in the Dude from Nazareth, too much hippie in the Red Sox player most likely to own a VW van, too much passivity in a leadoff hitter who usually defies his 60's veneer with every aggressive at-bat.
McGuire noted the album's primary fault is that "Usher never surrenders his meticulously groomed veneer", with every track being formulaic, or "radio-safe".
"I try to apply a Reality-Check veneer to every story I do," She told me, "rather than reporting that this candidate said this and this candidate said that".
I get that a public disaster that pulls back every inch of the veneer of professionalism you rely on to be taken seriously, revealing the rank stupidity and incompetence underneath, is a tough thing to come back from.
I am grateful that we have Barack Obama in the White House -- because he has changed the face of the nation - and altered forever the horizon of what is possible for Americans who don't have the Anglo-Saxon cosmetic veneer that every U.S. president before Barack Obama possessed.
The décor, like the breakfasts, is a sleek fusion of Western and Japanese corporate chic, in golds, blacks and wood veneer tans.. Every night, a bookmark featuring assorted quotes from Lost Horizon is placed on your pillow.
There is a veneer of festivity — not every campaign's approach is as ascetic as Mr. Obama's — but it is a thin and transparent one.
That cheap veneer was used to cover every policy inadequacy.
