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A year on from Jina’s death, in mainstream media and on our social media feeds a thin veneer of silence has settled in. With less attention on Iran, the world gives the Islamic regime the green light to step up its attacks on the country’s citizens.
Source: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23793816.scotland-power-amplify-voices-irans-women/?ref=rss
Beneath the spiritual veneer, the event’s canvas was painted with vibrant cultural hues.
But don’t let her calm veneer mask her true skill—liberating you from your festering swamp of seventy-five thousand four hundred and twelve unread J. Crew sales alerts and conspiracy rants from your uncle.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/new-airbnb-experiences-for-tired-adults
But Goth buries those violent tendencies under a veneer of authentic purity.
Hallström’s filmmaking style here has that slightly glossy veneer that makes so many films of the late 1980s and early 1990s feel overworked and vaguely artificial.
Source: https://time.com/6549175/leonardo-dicaprio-whats-eating-gilbert-grape-anniversary/
He was looking at how these mediums, how these technologies, open things up behind the veneer of their consumptive use as entertainment and economy and those sort of notions.
He was there all the time, and so what happened was he got it all — the veneer of regular life and then the depth, the messiness, the arguments.
I have put a veneer on it when I’ve been hurting inside like you wouldn’t believe.
It has the over-lit, over-saturated veneer that has typified Netflix’s teen-focused output, from and a distractingly shallow depth of field.
“Oh, God,” Marr whispered, as the instrument’s sunburst veneer was revealed.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/27/johnny-marr-loves-his-axes
Olyphant, Danes, and Quaid play characters who are squirrely and off-putting by design, but doesn’t even try to penetrate their veneer of wealth long enough to ingratiate them before it flips the script and reveals their secrets.
Source: https://filmschoolrejects.com/full-circle-steven-soderbergh-review/
"One of the lessons is that civilization is a very thin veneer that can be readily ripped away and in this case, we saw neighbours killing neighbours.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/medak-pocket-wayne-eyre-yugoslavia-1.6961497?cmp=rss
There was thus a veneer of liberal democratic values in the NPP as against what were perceived as illiberal NDC which from 1992 to at least 2000 elections had refused to accept any form of internal contest.
The window leaks and needs replacing, old wood veneer panelling must be removed from walls and the rear of the kitchen opened out to make a long gallery kitchen.
Source: https://www.begadistrictnews.com.au/story/8329100/scones-on-hold-in-this-kitchen/?src=rss
This three-bedroom brick veneer and tile roof home at 3 Churchill Avenue has high ceilings and large windows to let in the natural light.
To achieve this goal, BCC is shifting more of its internally produced veneer away from plywood, a product line that is prone to drastic price fluctuations.
When Lea is pressured by her group to dine and dash and subsequently gets caught, Tom steps in to defend her, establishing the veneer of being a good guy and forging a power dynamic in which she may feel like she owes him one.