Sentences with phrase «thin veneers»

Or is Wall Street still just a white man's world with a thin veneer of diversity layered on for public relations effect?

And whilst our extraction of oil is obviously having significant effects on the earth's atmosphere and oceans they are but a thin veneer on a very very big planet.

Fromm sees clearly that for many people Christianity is a thin veneer over the idolatrous worship of power, success, and the authority of the marketplace; or it is a cover masking their idolatrous fixation on their clan, religious or ethnic group, or nation - state.

agree for the most part, But there have to be negative consequences for horrific crimes or else the thin veneer on reality that we call civilization will crumble into anarchy where the aggressive rip apart the passive just for the hell of it.

All such fine points of differentiation were quite new to me, and I was totally unprepared for the thin veneer of tolerance and the highly visible condescension shown to Billy Graham when he preached (to a full house) at the Divinity School.

Also your comments regarding protestants are exactly the type of division that exists under the thin veneer of civility that coats religion.

We begin to suspect that the romantic love and respect that we are told mark motherhood and fatherhood are in fact nothing more than a thin veneer of civilization that covers intense human emotions.

The real Trojan horse in the Birmingham affair is the imposition on schoolchildren of a radical liberal agenda lurking behind a thin veneer of «British Values».

In fact, at some point along the way I realized I was hiding behind these recipes, sharing only a thin veneer version of myself.

Poured by Rootstock Wine Bar and available solely there and through their wine club, McCarthy Family Cabernets skew a bit towards the modern California palate, with the 2015 showing sweet, quickly ripened fruit with a thin veneer of chocolate.

It can not be said that Nestle is worse than any other corporation in this regard, but knowing where its chocolate comes from once again shows that underneath the thin veneer of cheery advertising and cartoon bunnies, Nestle is a brutally ugly company.

The floors in hospitals (no matter how pretty) are usually concrete under the thin veneer flooring.

Instead of «political expedience», I'd describe it more like «can congressional Republicans do the minimum possible to maintain even the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability to keep this obvious criminal madman in office so they can keep pushing their congressional agenda», but that would be opinionating, so I left that part out:)

We live our normal days wrapped in the familiar and the comforting, forgetting that civilization is a thin veneer, that barbarism is not far back in our past or far away in our...

We live our normal days wrapped in the familiar and the comforting, forgetting that civilization is a thin veneer, that barbarism is not far back in our past or far away in our present.

The general - purpose design allows you to use it for a variety of projects and with many different materials like plywood, wood, plastics, composites, and thin veneer.

Nearly the entire state sits on a thin veneer of limestone and dolomite rock.

The dark stuff on Iapetus is very black indeed, but it forms only a thin veneer less than a metre thick.

A new map called «The Patina of Feces» shows that the outer door frames of American homes wear a thin veneer of microbes that are normally found in animals» guts.

But they were nothing more than a thin veneer.

«The conventional picture of Antarctic sea ice being a thin veneer over the ocean is probably only true for some portion of it,» says Ted Maksym, an ice researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts (WHOI).

He also expects to be able to tell whether the crust of the Red Planet really is dominated by iron - rich minerals, or if the distinctive hue is merely a thin veneer.

To please the purists, the instrument is coated with a thin veneer of wood.

The dark, red polar cap — informally named «Mordor» — appears to have been shattered in places by impacts, suggesting that the dark covering is but a thin veneer.

Aside from an open casting call, the museum is the best demonstration extant that modern Los Angeles is a thin veneer of civilization overlying a sea of brutality.

Our Earth consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life, but the first potentially habitable worlds to form might have been very different.

Titan's surface may hold lakes of liquid ethane and methane, sprinkled over a thin veneer of frozen methane and ammonia.

Usually their looks are a bit too fussy looking for me, with only the thinnest veneer of unfussiness or carelessness superimposed, but I like the color and pattern play and can like them as a starting point (or outright, once in a while).

Blair also adds a thin veneer of feminism to the film by making Tony a sexually neutered platonic — romantic partner for Ruth, because any sexual chemistry between the two would presumably undermine her vigilante credibility.

I'm British and have to endure the overhyping of this show daily, I'm glad that people have finally started to see through the thin veneer though.

Critically acclaimed director Asghar Farhadi, whose credits include 2011's Oscar - winning A Separation, once again holds no punches in stripping back the thin veneer that shields humanity from our most basic instincts in his latest film, The Salesman.

Yet the stylized, creative camera work and precise editing are a thin veneer covering a message that lying, cheating and stealing are the basis of good luck.

Remember this is an allegory not unlike Luis Buñuel's surreal masterwork «The Exterminating Angel,» in which the rich, unable to leave a party, lose the thin veneer of civilization.

Though a longtime fan, my distinct aversion to «Grumpy Old Men» movies — which seem to coat a thin veneer of rebelliousness over reactionary conservatism — the story of an irascible nonagenarian staring down mortality, even tailored to its star, had little appeal.

In Satya, as in Company (02) and Sarkar (05), the two other movies that would form Varma's career - defining crime trilogy, cops and criminals are nothing more than rival gangs, and beneath the thin veneer of everyday life lurks the seething corruption that makes the world go round.

Beneath a thin veneer of sex jokes, the movie is about the denial and suppression of regret that occurs in the quest for long - term happiness.

Re: Finders Keepers: Seemingly a southern - fried freakshow if taken at synopsis alone, Carberry and Tweel actually realised something slightly heartbreaking here, wrapped in a thin veneer of the ridiculousness — a doc that could have poked fun, but peeled layers off a particularly American breed of aspiration (and a broadly human kind of disappointment), with impressive empathy.

In the first interaction we see between Louise and David, Crawford behaves like a woman trying her best to adopt a carefree, affable attitude before this thin veneer collapses and Louise confesses her desperate love.

When Sue reveals that she listens to Portishead to help her concentrate, it feels like a clumsy attempt to give a two - dimensional character a thin veneer of indie cred.

A mean - spirited cartoon beneath a thin veneer of faux - grit, screenwriter Brian Helgeland's feature debut is aimed squarely at the lowest common denominator:... read more

There is plenty of web ink dedicated to the inadequacies of «chocolate - covered broccoli,» as the field refers to edutainment apps that put a thin veneer of gaming on top of tedious digital versions of worksheets.

Force the pace and it bangs and crashes, bucks and slews, its thin veneer of composure peeled back to reveal a ragged, jagged, ill - tempered chassis.

This is where the R - Design's thin veneer of sportiness starts to crumble, as it's only available with a 2 - litre turbocharged four - cylinder diesel engine.

You're a wild and disobedient girl with violence impulses who chafes at authority and your thin veneer of polished civility has all the transparency of a whore's nightgown.

The game features some lovely artwork on its glossy cards, but really the theme is nothing more than a very thin veneer.

When you remove this thin veneer of fantasy there's very little that sets Epic Roll apart.

Underneath the thin veneer of resort - town Americana rests a place rich in history and local legend.

For me, it's all in keeping with the fictional context and never really becomes visceral or, functionally, anything more than a thin veneer of licensed tropes and promotional hijinx, but your mileage may vary.

But that thin veneer only barely covers an otherwise amazingly unpolished game.

Recent exhibitions include his solo show Potential Difference at the Agnes Varis Art Center, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY (2014), as well as group exhibitions including the SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai, UAE (2016), Perched in the Eye of a Tornado, Ying Space, Beijing (2015), A Personal Thing, 184 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY (2014) Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY (2013), Body And Material, Greenpoint Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2012), Fractured, performance at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2011), -LCB- Superposition -RCB-, Hyperopia Projects, Seattle, WA (2011), Art Here Art Now, University of Chicago / HyPa, Chicago, IL (2011), The Post - Glass Video Festival, Heller Gallery, New York, NY (2010), A Thin Veneer, RISD Museum, Providence, RI (2009).