With age comes the veneer of respectability and a veneer of uncomfortable truths.

Along the way, it lost its veneer of superstition and was admitted formally into the jargon of politics.

Sometimes, it took a more, took a veneer of sophistication, and people said, You know, it's nothing to do with Indians.

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, albeit a very well crafted and convincing one.

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, albeit a very well crafted and convincing one.

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.

This is one reason why London has experienced the other, darker side of the multicultural society the veneer of multiculturalism is thin. It does not take much to turn people of one group against those of others with whom they had apparently lived in peace.

And what it entails is the use of resin, of this very thick resin with a veneer of the same kind of wood that's used throughout the hall, in a kind of seamless continuity that wraps the hall in light, like a belt of light rather than separating,