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Example sentences for: patina

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, have far more of a patina of sophistication than any New York suburb.
Not only does this layer of varnish paint Dole as anti-education and anti-middle class, but the visuals give him the politically unprized patina of old age.
Critics like this movie better than Chow's last film and say it has "a stylish patina that puts it a cut above much of the competition" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). But the story, an exploration of the line between everyday palm-greasing and real treachery, does not capture everyone's imagination.
A hotshot English theater director (his Cabaret revival is still on the boards in New York), Mendes gives the film a patina of New Age lyricism and layer upon layer of visual irony.
Older pieces have the patina of age where new pieces — usually made on site — are bright and shiny.