Sentence examples for human veneer from inspiring English sources

In workplaces that combine humans and machines, will we offer any more than a human veneer on jobs basically done by machines?

In these moments, in the canned responses from the towering athlete, the NFL and its fans find the calm, simulated human veneer that keeps its brand intact.

Beneath the veneer of human civility, genocide seemed the rule on the frontier, a conclusion reinforced by Darwin's meeting with General Juan Manuel de Rosas and his "villainous Banditti-like army," in charge of eradicating the natives.

But get past 20, and the world looks like it's caked in a veneer of human shit.

Videla may only have lasted as dictator until 1981 military rule finally collapsed under Leopoldo Galtieri a year later after defeat in the Falklands War but Argentina winning the tournament allowed the junta to continue their human rights abuses beneath a veneer of popularity.

Later, in Primates and Philosophers (2006), de Waal returns to interdisciplinary discourse, taking issue in particular with the notion that human morality is only a thin "veneer" covering a selfish core.

Facebook is a bottomless can of industrial strength Ronseal that strips away any lingering veneer of faith in human nature.

Ailey's pure-dance veneer, covering an essay on human relations, now gets a slick performance.

On the philosophical plane, "The Isle" strips away the veneer of civilization to imagine human existence as an essentially savage state.

The media still regularly ask Frans de Waal about bonobos; and he still uses the species as a stick to beat what he scorns as "veneer theory" — the thought that human morality is no more than a veneer of restraint laid over a vicious, animal core.

Her silicone and fibre-glass creations have human hair on their painted skin-like veneers, punched in one at a time by hand.