Sentence examples for veneer of progress from inspiring English sources
"Despite West's Efforts, Afghan Youths Cling to Traditional Ways" (front page, Aug. 1) suggested that despite our recent advances, my countrymen have adopted only a veneer of progress.
Panh conjures his childhood by superimposing the colorful figurines onto black-and-white archival footage; he analyzes Khmer Rouge propaganda to reveal depravities under the veneer of progress and revolution.
"Beige," which brought the piece up to contemporary Harlem, was the weakest section, perhaps because Ellington was still working on it the night before the concert, but it stirred him to remarks about the "veneer" of progress and a people who still "don't have enough to eat and a place to sleep".
But the incorporation of gays and lesbians into these efforts makes this work especially troublesome, precisely because it gives this "new conversation" a veneer of progress.
There is a veneer of common prejudice about primitives and progress that first has to be stripped away.
"There's a lot of progress in modernizing the P.L.A., but a lot of it is just a high-tech veneer that goes over a system that is still pretty conservative," he said.
Signs of progress abound.
More evidence of progress.
