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Tom Andrews, the United Nation's special rapporteur on the rights situation in Myanmar, had in June accused the junta of designing a "mirage of an election exercise" to give itself a veneer of legitimacy.

Pollmeier in Germany, for example, has BauBuche – a laminated veneer lumber, very thin layers of wood pressed and glued together – made using beech.

This is a key way of maintaining a veneer of legitimacy and manufacturing consent.

Until then, the specter of a possible German atomic bomb had conferred a sense of urgency and a veneer of moral legitimacy on what many scientists otherwise recognized as a profoundly unethical undertaking.

In the rare event Moore does make a mistake — like the time he sanded through the veneer on a coffee table — “we have the capabilities to repair it after,” he said.