Not in every respect improvements on the "Sons of the Covenant," though; replacing the primitive manners and the piety of the foreign Jew by a veneer of cheap culture and a laxity of ceremonial observance.
Something deeper than theveneer of her culture overpowered her.
Only there seemed to be a certain natural brutality about him, under a thin veneer of culture and good breeding, that repelled us all dreadfully from the moment we saw him.
Then the Tartar in him broke through the thin veneerof European culture, and he lolled his tongue out at her in savage derision, with a hideous menacing leer like an untamed barbarian.
The Mexicans are polite all the time, but beneath the veneer of this nauseating oleaginous manner it takes no shrewd observer to see that as a people they are possessed of the most unpleasant characteristics.
The latter, owing, as we have said, her fashions and her veneer of civilisation to Paris and New York, is assisted by her size in still being much herself.
Her manner was less artificial than common, but theveneer of affectation was too firmly fixed to be peeled off at a moment's notice.
The quaint veneer of fashion with which for many years she had overlaid her speech and manner was more apparent in this address than common, but suddenly she broke through it and spoke with an approach to passion.
They were in some respects simple, and the complex life of the cities was unknown to most of them, but they had seen human nature stripped of its veneer in the bush and understood it well.
Under stress of fatigue and anxiety the veneer had worn off both of them, and in that impressive hour, when the spirit is bound most loosely to the clay, each had seen something not hitherto suspected of the other's inmost self.
A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like.
Defn: A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
Defn: To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany.
It is the source of considerable loss in the fancy veneer industry, as the veneer from valuable logs so affected drops to pieces.
Mexico had shown that the political stability which investors had believed it to have achieved was a very thin veneer and a series of revolutions had plunged that hapless land into anarchy.
Despite its veneer of brazen effrontery, the face, with its great mouth and two days' growth of beard, was haggard and weary looking.
Deep down below our consciousness, far beneath the veneer of civilization, there is an instinct, relic of the vigilant savage days, that warns us of personal danger.
Veneer was as abhorrent to him as to all genuine lovers of the artistic.
But the men whose outer veneer has not yet choked the soul will remember and understand.
The conflict, in this man, was always between the intrinsic good and the veneer of vice that the world puts on.
Inasmuch as rubble used in this manner becomes merely an aggregate in a concrete wall, the consistent thing to do is to consider it as such and give the wall an outside finish or veneer of rough plaster.
Perhaps the most picturesque of the old houses of this type is Wyck at Germantown Avenue and Walnut Lane, Germantown, a long, rambling structure of rubble masonry with an outside veneer of rough white plaster standing end to the street.
It is wrought in mahogany, the veneer made in pie-shaped pieces, each bit being outlined with a delicate line of hollywood.
It was not till the late Georgian period that machinery for cutting veneer was first used, and slices were produced one thirty-second of an inch in thickness.
Veneer of this early period, particularly burr-walnut veneer, was about one sixteenth of an inch thick, and was sometimes applied to oak.
Marquetry is veneer of different woods, forming a mosaic of ornamental designs.
Black walnut veneer is made by the slicing method and to a limited extent by the rotary-cut method.
It is used either in the form of solid wood cut from lumber or in the form of plywood made by gluing sheets of plain or figuredveneer to both sides of a core.
The veneer of classical refinement and humanistic urbanity, which for a time had hidden the natural savagery of the Roman nobles, wore away.
It was not long before the stiff veneer of bourgeoisie which bored me had worn off.
She is a shrewd and wise observer, with a real sense of humour, and Heaven knows a sense of humour is necessary if one gets the truth out of the veneer of tragedy that surfaces the situation.
It was in the morning that the veneer of the Ritz began to wear off for Henry.
On the east side of the kiva, the veneer facing of the wall had fallen, and it could not be positively determined if these alcove rooms also had similar slot stairways in front of them.
To support the weight of the upper rooms, the lower walls are much thicker and are composed of rubble fill with an outer veneer wall of the better shaped rectangular blocks.
You said--at my first and last supper--that money and station are the mere veneer of life, the central reality is love.
Truth sears, eats, destroys that which is but veneer and golden covering.
The Catholic spirit of half a century ago was not operated on by the literature of a nation that is daily losing even the veneer of Christianity.
The mere veneer of Christianity is fast fading off among the sects.
A veneer of affectation overlies a bulk of truth, with the evil consequence, if perceived, that the substance is estimated by the superficies, and the whole rejected.
He had long ago ceased to take even the smallest amount of interest in the question of the exact depth of a negro's veneer of civilisation.
