Sentence examples for veneer of control from inspiring English sources

Yet Mr. Hampson's fairly recent album of Verdi arias indicated that Verdi might be a good direction for him, not least because he is a singer who seems to do best when he's pulled outside himself, beyond the limits imposed by his own veneer of control.

In the 1980s, Qaddafi and his advisers tried to impose some of the economic ideas laid out in the Green Book, contorting themselves to put a veneer of local control on a centralized socialist system.

Schrader doesn't even depict his three antiheroes as consummate pros with an earnestly romantic veneer of self-control or style or a code of honor; they're self-deluding goofballs from the start, with the glowering and twitchy Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) watching daytime television in an incongruously pink and frilly home, in a repose that's neither idle nor innocent.

On the surface, the combatants have the veneer of a cause: control of smuggling routes into the US.

Murillo Karam's press conference was a ploy intended to give a veneer of competence and control to a government that in recent weeks had been internationally criticized for lacking both.

The US government is like Wall Street: behind their veneer of all-powerful control, most of the people who run things are not particularly bright.

But in the interim officials have accomplished something they likely didn't want they have punctured the authoritarian veneer of mystery about how the government controls what users see on the Interwebs.

But that is a riskier, more fraught policy in Damascus because it is such a symbolic prize and the government has tried to use the veneer of stability there to project the impression of nationwide control.

The veneer of due process.

— with a veneer of historical context.

A veneer of normality has returned.