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Example sentences for: patina

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The green patina of the building’s copper skeleton is an artful homage to the copper roofs on the old Parliament Buildings.
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.
Now, with the onset of outsourcing, globalization, and the virtual corporation, those old factories have acquired a patina of humanist authenticity they could not have had in their own time.
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.
The feeling, one assumes, is that broadcasting them, regardless of context, at times when children are listening, lends rude words a patina of approval that inures them to the corrosive atmosphere of taboo.