Sentence examples for its veneer from inspiring English sources
His 2000 book, "Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France" (Hill and Wang), chronicled the Nazis' stunning victory, after six weeks of blitzkrieg in May 1940, while stripping it of its veneer of inevitability.
Made of mahogany, satinwood and ebony, with a kitschy little inlaid design on its veneer front, it epitomized the luxury appeal of Art Deco, not meant for a mass market.
At every turn, it seemed, I stumbled into MORE SCHLOCK and felt compelled to ogle it, to finger its veneer of worthiness and to toy with the notion of adding it to my ever-growing mound of that-which-I-would-one-day-regret-purchasing.
Basically, its veneer of bohemian (it is on cool East Sixth), and its prices creep toward bourgeois.
SCOTT -- Another one I thought was terrible, although it was quite popular, was "Love, Actually," with its veneer of class and good taste -- and everyone's British and it's nicely shot.
And even when it was done, the band didn't drop its veneer: the crowd stuck around and cheered well after the house lights went on, hoping for an encore, but Coldplay was long gone.
The company is best known for its veneers.
Puuc is a subtype of Mayan architecture which is characterized by its veneer-over-concrete construction technique resulting in geometric and repetitive façade structures.
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.
At the same time, though, this ideological rigidity is also a clue to the significance of this celebration: It is the ruling party's reminder to its own people and the outside world that it has, underneath its modern veneer, a raw instinct to preserve its prerogatives.
Rapture's sci-fi-meets-the-supernatural (via a healthy wallop of religiosity) creepiness, lurking just beneath its pastoral veneer, remains for its entire duration.
