Sentences with phrase «veneer as»

I was hoping to be able to showcase at least some of the original wood veneer as part of the restoration.

After taking a closer look at condition issues, it was clear that I had to rule out all of my designs that retained the original wood veneer as a feature (top row pictured above and 1st sketch in the 2nd row).

During a period when Rockburne was completing a body of process - based works made from chipboard stained with crude oil, her own assistant was Carroll Dunham, whose early paintings employed different types of veneer as support that, in their material investigations, harken back to this period.

But on his own, it is a solid created testament of the shiny veneer as what one perceives in the manufacturing strata as real fakes or ghetto fabulous, which was inspired by China's fake antique industry.

Overlapping vignettes reveal the dark forces beneath their middle - class veneer as they struggle to love one another.

The modern design features a graceful center stack wrapped in a single wood veneer as it transitions into the center console.

At first he is put under the spell of great promises, then he engages in amicable relations before finally he begins to notice the cracks in the veneer as the perennial smile fades from the face of his patron.

I was hoping to be able to showcase at least some of the original wood veneer as part of the restoration.

Cuomo has been criticized for preferring an arrangement in Albany that allows Republicans to retain power in the state Senate at the expense of his own party, allowing him to play the chamber off the vast Democratic majority in the Assembly, giving him the veneer as a third party who can broker compromises during high - level negotiations.

And it is best to avoid activated charcoal for teeth whitening if you have crowns, caps, or porcelain veneers as it may cause discoloration.

Full Bridge of Weir leather interior with Walnut facia veneers as standard.

This approach is accomplished through the high - vaulted ceilings made of grass - thatched roofs, the rattan furniture, the natural stone and the bamboo veneers as well as Indonesian artworks and ornate Balinese fabrics.

Not exact matches

Hughes may have built his empire on his knack for taking time off, but as he tells Nancy Won, behind the laid - back veneer lies a hardcore workaholic who's more likely to measure his downtime in hours than days.

While some people dismiss formal manners and civility as just a veneer, she views them in a more optimistic light: «the artifice as embellishment rather than disguise.

Thus, the «success» of diversification strategies was confused with luck during these times and such a strategy even provided incompetent financial consultants with a cover of credibility as it empowered them with an undeserved veneer of competency.

@Topher It seems that before Ken Ham started his own project over there at AIG, he worked for the Insti / tute for Creation Research, which basically does the same thing as the Discovery Insti / tute — namely, try to create a «sciencey» veneer for Young Earth Creationism.

You keep dwelling on the government shutdown (strongly hinting that you are a GOPer trying to mask your contempt for Obama under a veneer of humanistic concern for your country) as a sole metric for determining third world status.

Otherwise, they'd still be «doing it» (as some are)... Dangerous people under a veneer of respectability..

The question is, not only as a consumer but as a human being, how do you find your soul and dig underneath the veneer?

The book first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker and years later, writes Ben Yagoda in Slate, the fact checker reported that «he had never seen such an accurate account and that whatever the fiction veneer, In Cold Blood was a scrupulous non-fiction report.»

How can we read about this veneer - like faith and not shudder as we compare it to the broad, wide and often equally shallow thing that passes for Christianity in so much of our culture and in so many of our churches?

The Decade has pointed this out repeatedly to the churches - first that the veneer of silence with which violence against women is dealt with is a moral failure of the Church and secondly that outrageous biblical and theological legitimizations of violence, calling into question the authority and power of the church, as a moral community.

More importantly than cultural differences I think or what might be the «face» of the church int terms of its veneer, how it appears is the security, love, empowerment and approval form God, that unites in something that can be beautiful as Sabine put it with hope in and faithfulness of its founder.

This facade of Christianity gave a veneer of legitimacy to his hatred and allowed him to focus Germany's discontent on a scapegoat while simultaenously absolving the citizenry of guilt by letting them rationalize it as God's will: «My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.

When these traditions recede — as they are almost everywhere in the face of globalization — we shall see the re-emergence of the more brutal capacities of the human condition, which have long survived beneath the veneer of civilization.

There can be no spurious «branch» theory of the Church claiming unity as a veneer of niceness.

Celebrate a day when a customer comes out of their protective shell, their veneer of restraint based on the general knowledge that, as the buyer, they must beware.

Though war by unmanned aircraft has a veneer of detached impersonality, the conductors of these humane bombings still deal with stress disorders as often as their colleagues on the ground.

What happened in the Miami Dolphins locker room can be described as nothing else but a group of man - children hiding behind a veneer of alpha male - ism in a society that excuses their stupid actions.

But here's the thing: Rather than indulging in a self - absorbed mommy - rant — and, believe me, I fully support the occasional outburst — I want to talk about the myriad ways in which parents are supposed to suck it up and keep it moving right along without so much as a crack in the veneer to suggest otherwise.

Such as porcelain veneers, or switching out bridges for dental implants.

Barry Beyerstein, a professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University, wrote about the technique of applying a veneer of scientific respectability as a way to improve the status of pseudoscientific beliefs.

Their goal is to crack down on the white collar professionals hiding behind a «veneer of respectability» as they knowingly assist organised criminals.

The veneer of business - as - usual is shredded.

There is, as with every letter from a Minister to a union leader such as this one, a veneer of practicality masking a political attack.

The simulated lightning bolt also generated a glassy veneer on the rock up to 9 centimeters or so from where the bolt struck, a so - called fulgurite (fulgur is Latin for lightning) that serves as a sign to geologists that rocks have been zapped.

Beneath its thin ideological veneer, ISIL operates as an organized crime enterprise.

(The term to describe it is late veneer, meaning that water is delivered to the Earth as a veneer after the Earth has completed its growth.)

Alternatively, when we wear a veneer and attempt to come across as perfect, we sabotage any potential for intimacy.

For another jaw - dropper as to the gall of corporate interests to use the veneer of science to downplay the risks of their products, check out BOLD Indeed: Beef Lowers Cholesterol?

For two years, while in dental school, Dr. Cortés worked in sales for Huerius - Kulzer — she taught various dentists bonding as well as how to make free hand composite veneers (1979 - 1981).

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).

It was very cool and rather pretty though it did have some veneer cracking and missing on the front of it (as you can see in the before) so I had planned to probably paint it regardless.

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When I bought this I was so excited to get it as it had beautiful curves to the drawers and the amazing timber veneer and I just knew it would look beautiful.

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Phil, Stu and Alan come across as affable good - time guys, yet beneath the veneer they're fragile souls.

Seinfeld's veneer of superiority is thus replaced by a genuine humanity, even if every person who appears on this show comes on as an outlandish caricature.

Even with its veneer of hip sizzle, it gives off about as much heat as those depressingly generic ads for island vacations that show ultratan couples strolling hand in hand on a beach.