Hutton had camouflaged his criminality well, the veneer thick and brightly polished.

These are usually owing to wood shrinkage and reveal themselves most often in antique items, which have relatively thick veneer that is not as flexible as thinner, modern veneer.

"It has a lovely, crusty old surface and a thick veneer that had been cut by hand," he said.

But in the Pequod's case this has been negated by the thick veneer of barbarity that has been overlayed onto the ship in the form of fantastic scrimshaw embellishment.

She was a Tibetan, and of no high rank, which is to say that she was oily, covered with a thick veneer of dirt, and pig-eyed.

She could no longer identify her own Englishness - it was lost under the thick veneer of assumed Italian ways and manners.

Planum Boreum is home to a permanent ice cap consisting mainly of water ice (with a 1 m thick veneer of carbon dioxide ice during the winter).

The biggest visible change in his coaching life was a thicker veneer of professionalism.

Brooklyn-bred, with a thick veneer of theatrical charm, he seems at first an unlikely collaborator for a man who cries at carols.

Soon Picard spied the figure of a man, human in appearance, sitting upon a granite boulder covered by a thick veneer of frost.