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1. The driver laughed out loud as he surveyed his little world of perfectly stitched cow hide, walnut veneer and deathly totem
2. to close the box, to shape the streets with a thin veneer or order,
3. Her rhythmic stride faltered as the immensity of her surroundings battered through the veneer of self-important awareness in the twentieth century woman’s mind and struck at the primitive being beneath
4. Alex hears the kettle click off as it spits water out onto the dressing table veneer but pays no attention to his primary need for stimulation
5. The veneer of affection, the camaraderie of violence, of shared experience, is ripped away from the carcass of their relationship
6. Unfortunately they saw right through his city slicker veneer, and when he just couldn't bring himself to get on a horse, Jim pulled his fat from the fire by saying he was only there to assist her
7. They entered the Drop a third of the way down where the vine was still plentiful enough to put an abstract veneer on their view of the world
8. The Magic veneer that was his face appeared angry, violent, and perhaps even deadly
9. Alistair's face looked like it should - the real ugliness beneath the thin veneer of the everyday
10. He nodded, finding it hard to maintain a veneer of interest
11. Veneer of Civilization, n
12. He didn’t give a second thought to Alex as he wore his normal early morning veneer of goodwill over his early morning scowl
13. The edges of his presence bled into the air around him, pushing through his veneer of humanity
14. With its beige sidewalls, Cream headliner and Beige carpet he immediately pulled out one of those dual fold-down executive tables with its leather inserts covered in high gloss veneer
15. She was, I suppose, an attractive woman, but her vile spirit seeped through the veneer of her looks making her rather evil looking, I would say
16. Gonzalo was very devout to his religion and I imagined the lack of even a veneer of morality by its leader was very troubling to him
17. Scientism is the pursuit of power concealed by a veneer of pseudoscience
18. And even though it camouflages its true selfish agenda in the benevolent language of "environmentalism" or the "social good", anyone who knows anything about history or politics should be able to see through the State's sleazy veneer
19. It was melting my stony veneer
20. Anxiety at this strange new development tugged at her thought, its thin strands threatening to break the veneer of control she clung to in the face of the unknown
21. sneering laughter humming through the veneer as soon as they
22. Details of the father were added to the records for registration, and the new parents were encouraged to spend some time in the clinic both before and after the 'birth' so as to give the scheme the veneer of legitimacy
23. Whatever veneer of respectable legitimacy there was on the main street in Gulagh was lost the further one got from it
24. brick veneer house became a log cabin and so did the entire
25. You are al owing a negative veneer with which you have surrounded yourself
26. I was looking at a skull with a thin veneer of gray skin pulled tight across the bones
27. 'Bring me Tarascus' head and I'll make you a baron!' In the stress of his anguish Conan's veneer of civilization had fallen from him
28. 'Fool!' A gust of passion broke the veneer of the wizard's calm
29. But underneath this veneer of naivete coursed a stream of insight and perception that was incomprehensible to Jo Kirby‘s mendacious son
30. The Head of the Task Force used this fact to derive the title for the final report “Beneath the Veneer”, reflecting the fact the equality of opportunity in the civil service was only a thin veneer, beneath which women were compressed to the lowest levels and pay grades, and only rare women managed to break through the ‘glass ceiling’ which limited their career progression
31. Rory also understood that underneath the veneer of any society
32. That explains why my trusty assistant and I were knocking on the door of this modest suburban brick veneer, hoping the articles mentioned would be mounted over the mantelpiece or such
33. There was an interaction between these two poles of emotion, eliciting a strong torque that twisted Ambrosius' upper lip into a sneer, a sneer that was but a veneer of a thoroughly tortured being
34. look that says that just under this thin veneer of skin is a bomb ready to unleash
35. Surveying the mahogany-paneled lockers adorned with brass nameplates engraved with the member’s name, he noticed a small keypad lock beneath the handle on each veneer
36. The facçde of mans’ creations, is just that, a veneer of the work of his head, hands and feet, the same things that Christ allowed to be nailed on the cross
37. to cover them with an intellectual veneer, but to own up to them
38. he teetered back and forth stubbing his toe into the veneer
39. walked across the veneer floor to the front door
40. He provides us with a glimpse of the horrors that lie beneath the veneer, the barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was like before we invented civilization
41. Space stations K-7, the Ilaintance Outpost, and the Veneer space station are under attack by unknown forces
42. The museum’s crisp white landscape lighting weaved through trees and vines to scratch shadowy nets across the new marble veneer
43. Now they try to veneer it over with electric lights and bright varnish, but I suppose it comes to the same thing
44. Libby forced a laugh and struggled to maintain a veneer of
45. veneer, he thought, recalling that she was
46. the Temple’s gold veneer and ornamentation
47. No veneer stones on the body
48. When admitting that they will have to forfeit their veneer of godliness about how enlightened they
49. that lives up to the veneer of being the best mathematical intellectuals on Earth, never though of testing
50. They hadn’t gone ashore yet and Nicky marveled at how quickly the thin veneer of civilization that everybody took for granted could be ripped away
1. Jock has laid out a small number of plastic sachets on the veneered chipboard top of the desk
2. My veneered desk looked like it came from a minimally furnished Cornell student rental room
3. As for himself, he handled only the big cases in which he veneered the dirty work by a sort of finesse
4. Everything seems to have moved uptown lately, to have been veneered over to meet the fastidious second decade of the twentieth century
5. has forever veneered their status with this blanket of “they know all”
6. Les had paid to have her teeth straightened and veneered
7. One of the pieces that I remember from my childhood was a windup gramophone cabinet with veneered inlays and little dumbbell handles that opened doors to the horn
8. In the corner of the front sitting room is a windup gramophone in a walnut cabinet with small brass dumbbell handles on veneered doors like the ones that admitted Alice
9. Veneered and polished mahogany furniture, very much too large and too heavy for the rooms; black haircloth, like the grave clothes of Art, for the covering of everything that could be sat upon; cold, brownish-red curtains, of shiny but not lustrous material; silver candlesticks of monstrous design,—these, and such as these, were the decorative objects which our fathers or our grandfathers admired, or felt that they must admire for want of better, during the unhappy years that I have cited
1. With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath
1. the veneers of liberty that he clothed himself in
2. of eroding civilised veneers to reveal the inane,
3. When Self looks at them externally, and perceives others as mere superficial veneers
4. William Breitling smiled with a full set of veneers, and Hoffman felt the ice melt in the jury box
