Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
Good design is not an applied veneer.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.
I really like raw connections, and so I've always had a harder time in politics because I feel there's a lot of veneer around everything.
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion
