Sentence examples for smoother veneer from inspiring English sources

It has a smoother veneer.

But cracks are already beginning to mar the smooth veneer of Bush & Co.'s boardroom table.

With the smooth veneer and effortless panache for which he became famous, we were putty in his hands.

This upsets Chris, and it also puts a crack in the movie's smooth veneer of cynical indifference.

But there's something also there of smoothed veneer, of guardedness … but I'm still left with this feeling of … a bit of a wall — the veil.

He says his hero is Napoleon (another small man with a big ambition); his bust, not Hitler's, adorns his office.Yet scratch beneath his smooth veneer and Mr Mégret is a man with views just as troubling as those of Mr Le Pen, if not more so.

Underneath his smooth veneer Rourke's Yankee swindler is sinister.

So come as you are: Scratch the smooth veneer of the newfangled tech era, and you'll still find San Francisco is an eccentric town (for now).

Russia is, by some measures, a borderline developing country lacking both a free press and a political counterweight to Putinism, and possesses whatever smooth veneer it has only because of its oil revenues.

Its vignettes of sleaze and human shortcomings are eased into songs that pose and solve musical conundrums under a smooth pop veneer.

Most "young audience" movies are made by old people interested in money, and so they're machine-tooled to a smooth and edgeless veneer.