Sentence examples for veneer around from inspiring English sources

After the managed munificence of distant Stratford, this was one of few genuinely central London events, applying a grand Olympic veneer around this central stretch of green, a rare open space at the heart of a clogged and hard-nosed commercial city that has still embraced these Games with all the clamour and abandon at its disposal.

"Clark has tried to build a veneer around that, but I don't think that's really going to hold once people begin to look at his positions," said Mark Penn, the pollster for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, another Democrat whose appeal is based largely on an argument that he can defeat Mr. Bush.

He busted out his hacksaw and started cutting away at the wood to slim it down… only to realize that it wasn't really wood at all, but a thin wood veneer wrapped around a cardboard core.

During health care reform, he wrapped the veneer bipartisanship around his opposition to the public plan.

These moments, then, are sort of "pseudo" in nature -- a hard shell of importance with shiny veneer, wrapped around nothing at all.

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.

From rock maple, rosewood and wood veneers from around the world, to setting the cast iron plates and stringing the piano with 13 - 21 gauge wire, producing a relatively small number of pianos a year shows the level of care, detail and engineering expertise they put into each piano.

Boxing wraps a veneer of showbiz around the craft of fighting, while pro wrestling wraps a veneer of fighting around the craft of putting on a show.

Although numerous US government investigations have pierced the veneer of secrecy around the torture program, the program's government architects have faced no legal reprisal.

Afterwards, as I watched her walking away into the milling crowds, I thought that her experiences gave the lie to the veneer of normality around us.

Whedon did reveal that Mark Ruffalo's hugely popular Hulk gets a bigger part in the sequel, and said he hoped to add a realistic documentary-style veneer this time around.