We’re partnering with a blue-collar labor organization, ostensibly a group of farmers.
She ostensibly loves her job, but she’s known to be a people pleaser, so she may just not want to let anyone down.
I’m putting up with the long hours of big law until my student debts are paid off.
We put up with our boss’s terrible jokes because they’re good leaders.
Under the veneer of the office’s great interior design and high-tech equipment are a bunch of unhappy employees.
Racing to meet the deadline, we saw our boss’s veneer of composure crack a little.