Tom Ellis

What I really wanted to do was take this character and go beneath the veneer of Lucifer. Underneath it all, there was a guy who was a hurt soul and rejected from his father. How that played upon his choices was kind of interesting, but also it's going inside a shell of someone who doesn't know what an emotion is.

Welsh Actor

Rick Wilson

With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta is always broad. If Trump said it was the best, it was average. If he said something was the finest, it typically included a spray-painted gold veneer.

American Author

Lauren Bacall

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

American Actress

Henry Giroux

The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

American Critic

Jason Jones

The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down.

Edward Hopper

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

American Artist

Steve Jobs

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

American Businessman

Michael Flanders

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

British Actor

George Washington Carver

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

American Scientist

Evan Esar

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

American Writer

Veneer often refers to thin wood layers on furniture or interior features for a luxury appearance.

Furniture and Interiors

Using veneer can imply a way to economize since it's cheaper than solid fine wood, but still looks good.

Cost Implication

Applying veneer is a skilled task. It may be mentioned in contexts discussing craftsmanship.

Skill and Craft

In dentistry, veneer often relates to cosmetic procedures to improve the teeth's appearance.

Cosmetic Dentistry

Dental veneers also provide a layer of protection to underlying teeth, implying both cosmetic and functional benefits.

Durability and Protection

Veneers in dentistry come in different materials, affecting their look and feel.

Material Varieties

Veneer can metaphorically describe something superficial, masking true feelings or situations.

Metaphorical Mask

Veneer often indicates that someone is hiding something less attractive with a more appealing appearance.

Concealing the Truth

Veneer can be used to describe attempts to fit in or seem more acceptable in social contexts.

Social Impressions

 I'd done well at school. Expectations for me were high, and I gleefully entered the student life of lectures, parties and traffic cone theft. Now appearances, of course, can be deceptive, and to an extent, this feisty, energetic persona of lecture-going and traffic cone stealing was a veneer,

The voices in my head PIPE...

 coalition of women's groups would caress the establishment with the usual blandishments while aids-free world would engage in high-level advocacy at the diplomatic level we shamelessly used the veneer of male privilege to gain access but we needed a blazing dossier

Advocating for gender...

 Indians don't do innovation the more polite one said well you know Indians make good software programmers and accountants but they can't do the creative stuff sometimes it took a more book a veneer of sophistication and people said you know it's nothing to do

India's invisible...

 in their transparent covers that they were delivered in. But what's more difficult to navigate is the emotional landscape between the generations, and the old adage that with age comes wisdom is not true. With age comes the veneer of respectability

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 It drives people from the smart part of the brain -- that dark, deep well of the subconscious, where instincts and experience, and all the other factors of creativity and good judgment are -- it drives us to the thin veneer of conscious logic.

Philip Howard: Four ways...

 a photograph that some astronauts took. And this tenuous veneer around our planet is what allows life to flourish. It protects our planet from too many impacts, from meteorites and the like. And it's such an amazing phenomenon

Why Earth may someday...

 surrounded by a layer of clouds. These clouds, predominantly made of hydrogen and helium, include traces of methane, which give this ocean world its rich blue color. While the clouds create a cool, calm veneer from afar,

Neptune 101 PIPE National...

 feel really well living out in the mountains like this this is my favorite place in the world there's this veneer of civilization as weighing people down and there's something inside waiting to get out and

Home Chandalar Home PIPE...

 also laser cutting holes then I realized what the illuminated side could extra bends and warp and twist because of the shrinkage of the veneer by understanding the behavior and characteristics of

Creating materials...

 the world of wood veneer they're like diamonds they're grain richer and more patterned than any other wood looks very rough but yes when you cut