Sentence examples similar to veneer over value from inspiring English sources

Simple: we probably over-value verbal fluency.

Puuc is a subtype of Mayan architecture which is characterized by its veneer-over-concrete construction technique resulting in geometric and repetitive façade structures.

The idea that the giver has nothing to lose becomes a very thin veneer over underlying and contending registers of value.

College students there seem cynical but writer thinks this is just a veneer over faith.

Nor did Colonel Qaddafi's Libya ever do much more than place a veneer over the long-simmering tribal animosities.

Slick desert varnish, a shiny rust-brown veneer over cream-colored sandstone, coated the route above.

Under his reign, Havana eventually became something of a Marxist Disneyland — a shiny, happy veneer over something much uglier.

The 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami caused severe damage to the coastal regions of eastern Japan and left a sediment veneer over affected areas.

Lucian Simmons, worldwide director of restitution at Sotheby's, said: "The Nazis were very keen on having a legal veneer over everything.

And one might wonder whether differences in taste are a superficial veneer over underlying normative universals, or whether, instead, culture plays a role in shaping normative facts.

Cooperation is not "merely a thin moral veneer over an otherwise nasty biology" (Frans de Waal).