Noun the author goes on in that sarcastic vein for pages
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Still, there's a deep vein of humor and humanity that Polley and her actors mine from the text, and something quietly mesmerizing in their meticulous world-building. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2022 Moreover, unlike the all-American Apollo program in the 1960s, the Artemis program will include a rich vein of international cooperation. Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2022 But with prices shooting up this year, his miners—all six of them—were back in El Diamante again, this time finding a rich vein in a shaft that runs 200 feet deep. Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022 City is in a rich vein of form, too, especially with Foden taking on the scoring and creative mantle while playing in the false-nine role. Steve Douglas, ajc, 23 Oct. 2021 Led by hosts Jon Weigell and Charlie Cooper, the tournament brought dramatic flair to the livestream studio with a fictionalized narrative built around the event in the vein of pro wrestling. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2022 Mike Feuer’s mayoral campaign before Feuer dropped out and endorsed Bass — suggested that Caruso might be learning a difficult lesson in the vein of former gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Al Checchi, who both lost badly after spending big. Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022 Look Both Ways Netflix movie First up is Look Both Ways, a romantic dramedy sort of in the vein of Sliding Doors. Andy Meek, BGR, 17 Aug. 2022 Under chairman John Landgraf, FX now sees itself as a brand in the vein of Marvel and Lucasfilm, but under Disney General Entertainment oversight, developing/producing/marketing its own content that is then seen mostly on Hulu. Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
Verb
Companies are offering marble-look tile in unexpected hues like magenta and green, or with veining in gold or copper.Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019 Coming up, says Tien: Parker House rolls veined with scallions and shallots, a riff on Chinese scallion pancakes. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019 Quartzite comes in an array of colors and veining that ranges from subtle to bold. Jeff Reina, Houston Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2019 Instead, the crust is dense and focaccia-like, its insides veined with olive oil. Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2019 Against an uncharacteristically gray June Parisian sky, veined with fine clouds like marble, Pierpaolo Piccioli, the 52-year-old creative director of Valentino, crouches contemplatively, brow furrowed, chin resting on fist. Mariano Vivanco; Fashion Editor: Miguel Enamorado, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2019 The border region of Lombardy adopted blue-veined cheese over mozzarella, and substituted rice for the ubiquitous Italian pasta. Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019 Kayak through the General Carrera Lake’s Marble Chapels, a network of glacial caves veined with blue striations carved from calcium carbonate by over 6,000 years of water pressure.National Geographic, 5 July 2019 Taking 579 years and at least 78 chief architects to complete, the cathedral is one of the jewels of Europe; a canal network was created just to transport slabs of its pink-veined marble from Lake Maggiore 50 miles away. Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-French veine, going back to Latin vēna "blood vessel, channel," of obscure origin