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  • For as his gaze moved from the Palace of Unions, to the Bolshoi, to the Maly Theatre, and finally to the Metropol Hotel, he had to marvel to find so many of the old facades unspoiled.†   (source)
  • But behind the dapper facade was a shrewd businessman with a strong sense of family.†   (source)
  • Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center, the Greek facades of your government buildings in Washington.†   (source)
  • The home was a large, three-story, five-bedroom row house with a jagged gray brick facade.†   (source)
  • A small, quiet neighbourhood with Arabic writing and crescent moons inscribed on the facades of the houses.†   (source)
  • Angry with them for letting me engage in a façade.†   (source)
  • Across a staggeringly expansive plaza, the imposing facade of the Louvre rose like a citadel against the Paris sky.†   (source)
  • The house—or what remains of it—is grand: twenty French windows in the facade, big freshly painted shutters, manicured hedges out front.†   (source)
  • The stone facade of the house.†   (source)
  • These gave way to Ardsley Park, an enclave of early twentieth-century houses with proud façades that featured columns, pediments, porticoes, and terraces.†   (source)
  • The American State of China had the appearance of its original country, but was merely a facade.†   (source)
  • He crossed back over the boat gunnels then, and Kabuo hoped that underneath his facade there was part of him wanting to discuss the land that lay between them silently.†   (source)
  • She motioned at the big square facade of the Chelsea.†   (source)
  • So then later after Lilly and I had cleaned up all the popcorn and gone back to her room, she asked me again who I would choose, Josh Richter or her brother, and I had to say Josh Richter, because Josh Richter is the hottest boy in our whole school, maybe the whole world, and I am completely and totally in love with him, and not just because of the way his blond hair sometimes falls into his eyes when he's bent over, looking for stuff in his locker, but because I know that behind that jock facade he maintains he is a deeply sensitive and caring person.†   (source)
  • The fierce weather of the region, mixed with the moisture from the sea, had taken its toll on the facades of the buildings—cracks spiderwebbed the exteriors of the complex—but they looked like structures that would exist there forever, unyielding to whatever man or weather threw at it.†   (source)
  • "No," Kaltain said flatly, the facade falling.†   (source)
  • It makes everything that I thought was happening between us nothing but a façade.†   (source)
  • Even on television you can see ivy overtaking the crumbling facade, the sag of the roof.†   (source)
  • As more and more footage rolls, showing the marble facade of the courthouse explode into dust or a diamondglass wall withstanding a fireball, part of me feels happy.†   (source)
  • It had a renovated facade, a recent layer of white stucco topped with connected rows of metal fire-escape ladders.†   (source)
  • The lawns are tidy, the facades are gracious, in good repair; they're like the beautiful pictures they used to print in the magazines about homes and gardens and interior decoration.†   (source)
  • Behind the facade lies a vast floor with no halls and no doors—just a gigantic room, doctors and nurses behind white masks, test tubes and pipettes, incubators and gurneys.†   (source)
  • It was as if these terrifying authorities, these uniformed agents, had been lying in wait behind the facades of pretty buildings for a disaster they knew must come.†   (source)
  • To drive home the point, its facade had been designed as a cement replica of a curved CinemaScope screen.†   (source)
  • In the light of the dying fire, I can see the building: a facade of broken windows, peeling white paint, and the roof one story higher than us.†   (source)
  • The outside of the factory was a facade to placate the Nazis.†   (source)
  • What would Thoreau have made of Las Vegas: its lights and rackets, its trash and daydreams, its projections and hollow facades?†   (source)
  • I have the hardest time trying to maintain a normal facade when I'm feeling so wretched and sad.†   (source)
  • It has two pool tables, a long bar with vinyl stools, and a red-and-blue neon facade.†   (source)
  • A dozen or so tiny windows—like the multiple staring eyes of a spider—are scattered across its stone facade.†   (source)
  • Start with the facade.†   (source)
  • The Twins abruptly dropped their facade of smiles.†   (source)
  • Mark Keppel High School was a Depression-era structure with a brick and art-deco facade and small, army-type bungalows in back.†   (source)
  • Soon again there was silence and her face, though remaining soft, took on a fiery intensity, as if she was able to peer deep inside of him, past the pretenses and facades, down to the places that are rarely, if ever, spoken of.†   (source)
  • i went closer and inspected the facade.†   (source)
  • His lecturer's facade gave way to a grin as he tried with marginal success to wipe the pitch off of his hands with a rag.†   (source)
  • The wooden facades looked like Gion, but the place had no trees, no lovely Shirakawa Stream, no beautiful entryways.†   (source)
  • I'd never seen him so completely freed of that carefully cultivated facade.†   (source)
  • She fell, her own shot wild, hitting the temple façade behind me, shattering some god, bright-colored chips flying.†   (source)
  • When Root saw early drawings of the Auditorium, he said it appeared as if Sullivan were about to "smear another façade with ornament."†   (source)
  • I saw the Grote Markt, half a block away, as clearly as though I were standing there, saw the town hall and St. Bavo's and the fish mart with its stair-stepped facade.†   (source)
  • EXIT The roar shook the whole facade of the hotel.†   (source)
  • War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.†   (source)
  • But once you got past the façade and looked in the rooms, most were broken messes.†   (source)
  • Several of the figures were eating directly off the facades.†   (source)
  • The great facade of the cathedral rose in a dark mass opposite the square, but the doors were open and I could see a soft, flickering light within.†   (source)
  • Idle scribbles at first—a detail from the crumbling facade of the vampire hotel: a fanged gargoyle with bulging eyes.†   (source)
  • Judge Moore hid a Harvard law degree and a highly ordered mind behind the facade of a West Texas cowboy, something he had never been but simulated with ease.†   (source)
  • He comes around a corner and finds himself on the waterfront street, looking straight into the facade of the Spectrum 2000.†   (source)
  • The facade of the house underwent no alterations.†   (source)
  • Some of them just had their front facade, the entire rear area having been blown out by U.S. bombs as the troops fought to run down the murderous Saddam Hussein.†   (source)
  • The houses were in the colonial style, with red brick facades, black clapboard shutters.†   (source)
  • She must be a really castrating lady with a facade of passivity — or perhaps she is a warm, passive-dependent woman with a surface defense of aggressiveness.†   (source)
  • He stood by the window rubbing his neck as he stared out at the illuminated facade of the church on the other side of the bridge.†   (source)
  • I buried my face in the pink velvet facade of Jay Cee's loveseat and with immense relief the salt tears and miserable noises that had been prowling around in me all morning burst out into the room.†   (source)
  • Behind his innocent facade of a doctor without prestige there was hidden a terrorist who with his short legged boots covered the scars that five years in the stocks had left on his legs.†   (source)
  • Hall's easygoing facade masked an intense desire to succeedwhich he defined in the fairly simple terms of getting as many clients as possible to the summit.†   (source)
  • Mia's eyes reach out to meet mine, and for a second I fear that my facade will fall apart.†   (source)
  • For such persons, being a butler is like playing some pantomime role; a small push, a slight stumble, and the facade will drop off to reveal the actor underneath.†   (source)
  • I went into the Arts Duplex, our newest building, a winged affair with a facade of anodized aluminum, sea-green, cloud-catching.†   (source)
  • Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast food conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking facade.†   (source)
  • He felt that there was something genuine in the way she spoke and acted, something caring and kind beneath the brittle facade.†   (source)
  • The cheerleader facade has him completely confused.†   (source)
  • His touch had left me ridiculously flustered and I tried to regain my facade of good sense.†   (source)
  • The brick facade of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour glistened with dew as we said our good-byes.†   (source)
  • But each time I did, I just saw her steely, professional facade, and I wondered how I could have been so mistaken.†   (source)
  • She continues, "Were the 1920s a period of true intellectualism, or was it just a facade of intellectualism?"†   (source)
  • We are so careful to maintain the facade that even though no one could possibly hear our conversations, we conduct them as though others were sitting at our table.†   (source)
  • Four thick columns hold up a Gothic facade of imposing statues and rose windows and intricate carvings.†   (source)
  • The view changed with each step, as if they were following a winding mountain path surrounded by breathtaking scenery: a young man kneeling in the middle of the sidewalk praying; a few steps away, a beautiful black woman leaning against a tree; a man in a black suit directing an invisible orchestra while crossing the street; a fountain spurting water and a group of construction workers sitting on the rim eating lunch; strange iron ladders running up and down buildings with ugly red facades, so ugly that they were beautiful; and next door, a huge glass skyscraper backed by another, itself topped by a small Arabian pleasure-dome with turrets, galleries, and gilded columns.†   (source)
  • Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out.†   (source)
  • It would have been easy for me to just accept the facade of blind sacrifice that has always cloaked her, to believe my momma never minded the backbreaking work and the physical pain as she dragged me up and down a thousand miles of clay.†   (source)
  • Maybe it would be a good idea to establish a facade of normalcy.†   (source)
  • Old Tom's scaffolding had been removed, and the building's clean stone facade stood exposed, much like a patient freed from gauze and plaster.†   (source)
  • The buildings pressed close, their facades blank, chalky, windowless.†   (source)
  • Across the street, a television news van was already setting up with the backdrop of the hotel's facade.†   (source)
  • But overseas, Castro's popular facade as a revolutionary hero took hold.†   (source)
  • When the crown facade of the aerie topples onto the broken heap, there is an awed silence.†   (source)
  • In the sunshine of summer, the trees bordering the canal cast lovely shadows on the water and on the facades of houses on the opposite side.†   (source)
  • But the time for facades was at an end.†   (source)
  • I couldn't keep up the "I'm fine" facade much longer.†   (source)
  • Then he chuckled and shifted his eyes away from the glossy faux marble facade of the lofty building.†   (source)
  • Then, as if aware of letting down his facade, he straightened up.†   (source)
  • He pointed at a tall, gaudy facade at the edge of the square.†   (source)
  • I hurried to my address and was challenged by the sheer height of the white stone with its sculptured bronze facade.†   (source)
  • Twice during the short ride to the monumental facade that overlooked the Seine, Jason's taxi passed the black sedan, only to be subsequently passed by it.†   (source)
  • It is raw and urgent, with no facade to hide behind.†   (source)
  • Forgetting the cool facade, she propped her elbows on the table and leaned forward.†   (source)
  • Momentarily disoriented, she looked down the street at the facade that had drawn her attention.†   (source)
  • Gazing at the facade of the abandoned tenement, he said to himself that he never wanted to leave here again.†   (source)
  • The architectural decorations on the facade of this doomed opera house had been so worn down by wind and water that the devils were toothless, the gargoyles faceless, and the cornices round, but Italy had always been full of buildings that seemed just about to fall down, and this one, in its timber girdle, waited until Alessandro had left the city.†   (source)
  • I tried to maintain a serene facade in the upstairs chamber, even as I agonized over my husband's safety.†   (source)
  • The family's duplex in Tehran—with the marble on the walls and a marble exterior facade—seemed equally foreign.†   (source)
  • "Who indeed?" retorted Jensin Brent, now a bit of fluster showing through his calm facade.†   (source)
  • Our building was a five-story professional office, trapezoidal, contemporary, with smoked windows and a blush-red granite facade, the structure nestled in among other office buildings in a large, well-wooded corporate park in Purchase, New York, fifteen or so miles north of the city.†   (source)
  • I realized that my profession, my reputation, my entire perception of myself was nothing more than a facade.†   (source)
  • In about three minutes they pulled up before an ornate facade resembling, of all things, the front of a tomb.†   (source)
  • And one of those firms was Sanxin Facade, based on the South China Sea.†   (source)
  • He stopped in the center of the square and gazed disapprovingly at the darkened southern facade of the ancient cathedral.†   (source)
  • When I first saw the place I was instantly reminded of the facade of some back-lot castle left over from the MGM movie version of The Wizard of Oz.†   (source)
  • They're just an imposing facade.†   (source)
  • Living in Moscow, Yurii Andreievich had forgotten how many shop signs there still were in other towns and how much of the facades they covered.†   (source)
  • The whole facade drooped and gave way in the soft light, like the face of an old woman fallen asleep in church.†   (source)
  • The Democrats, however, were jubilant—although concealing their glee behind a facade of shocked indignation.†   (source)
  • My fingers twitched—the irritation breaking through my perfect facade.†   (source)
  • The cheeriness of the place now seemed ominous, a facade hiding a darker truth.†   (source)
  • Many have an ornate facade of red brick, with four-or five-step stoops leading to the front door.†   (source)
  • "The cathedral facade is blocking the searchlight," Langdon said.†   (source)
  • Jacob dropped the antagonistic facade completely.†   (source)
  • It had a red brick facade, an ornate balustrade, and sat framed by sculpted symmetrical hedges.†   (source)
  • Up the block, Abdullah saw a huge poster hanging from the facade of a tall building.†   (source)
  • She talked about structural supports and facades and stuff, and I tried to listen.†   (source)
  • The rear of Mercer House was distinctly different from the Italianate façade in front.†   (source)
  • The brick facade of a manor house shimmered through the leaves of a circular group of lime trees.†   (source)
  • Finally, I reached the Midgard facade of the Hotel Valhalla.†   (source)
  • A squat citadel with a giant, neon equal-armed cross emblazoned atop its facade.†   (source)
  • Behind the fragile facade of greenery lived a press of people who could gather at a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • Or was this all a facade to get what she wanted?†   (source)
  • Her fingers crawl down the facade, find the recess in the front door.†   (source)
  • As he stood there, the lights on the facade of the church went out, and it was dark all around him.†   (source)
  • Damp bunting swelled from building façades.†   (source)
  • Her building has a crumbling stoop, a terra cotta—colored facade with a gaudy green cornice.†   (source)
  • The only lights on the castle were exterior floods illuminating the facade.†   (source)
  • His face was as benign as ever, but unlike before, I sensed a strange blankness behind the facade.†   (source)
  • It wasn't enough time for me to pull together a calm facade.†   (source)
  • Shea and I sat in front of the Cue Lounge, a bar and billiards club whose facade was painted black.†   (source)
  • At the Quinto Patio, with its hot pink facade, a sign beckons: LADIES DANCE.†   (source)
  • The name punches through his mask, cracking the facade of cool indifference, but isn't enough.†   (source)
  • Charlie was quiet for so long that I wondered if he heard the strain beneath my facade.†   (source)
  • Tudor facades, tiny metal balconies, wood chips under the stairs.†   (source)
  • The facade of a grand building rises gracefully, pilastered and crenelated.†   (source)
  • The marble facade blazed like fire in the afternoon sun.†   (source)
  • At midnight the lights on the facade of the church were turned off.†   (source)
  • Several gaze openmouthed up at the facade of the château.†   (source)
  • Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith.†   (source)
  • Eleven windows on the facade, most of the glass out.†   (source)
  • The house is tall and narrow, eleven windows in its facade.†   (source)
  • Maintaining a facade of normalcy had been exhausting.†   (source)
  • My facade crashed down, but I struggled to keep it together.†   (source)
  • I—I am not able to create the perfect facade at all times.†   (source)
  • Brick facades and chimneys still stood, but wooden frames and roofs had been incinerated.†   (source)
  • That was successful for a while, but over time, cracks appeared in the facade.†   (source)
  • Simon was sitting on the front steps, looking up at the facade.†   (source)
  • The facades had soaring white columns like Roman temples.†   (source)
  • She'd always sensed he put on a facade of sorts, one she'd never been able to breach.†   (source)
  • He'd maintained the facade without breaking.†   (source)
  • They had stopped in front of Taki's, with its sagging roof and windowless facade.†   (source)
  • I watched her, forgetting for the moment about being cool and friendly, about maintaining my facade.†   (source)
  • So much of the Jackal's various facades is tied to the Church.†   (source)
  • His face was expressionless, the blank facade that meant he was in the grip of some strong emotion.†   (source)
  • But behind the Norman Rockwell facades, each holds its secrets.†   (source)
  • It was all a facade, a perfectly designed mask.†   (source)
  • Jason scanned the palace's facade for an entrance.†   (source)
  • He begins studying the front facades, his step slowing.†   (source)
  • A sign attached to the façade read 7/24/60.†   (source)
  • I cared too much about appearances, about the facade that faced the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • Do I scale the sheer facade of a ninety-story building, wearing a clip-on belt?†   (source)
  • I wanted to please Moody, even if he saw through the facade of my thin-veiled plan.†   (source)
  • Good, I'd succeeded in getting under that perfect facade.†   (source)
  • When Shaunee was gone, some of my happy facade faded.†   (source)
  • Once she ordered the drink she knew the facade would crumble.†   (source)
  • It offers a glimpse of what's hidden behind this huge blank facade.†   (source)
  • But behind the Norman Rockwell facade, I'm slowly coming to terms with our secrets.†   (source)
  • And suddenly her calm facade cracks and she begins to cry.†   (source)
  • She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away.†   (source)
  • She had the pleasure of seeing his smooth facade shaken a bit by her statement.†   (source)
  • The one without the attitude, without the facade.†   (source)
  • Clary examined the facade of number 232.†   (source)
  • Behind the facade of his words, he was trying to put together some kind of an alternate plan.†   (source)
  • The view from her bedroom was a firewall on a gable facade.†   (source)
  • I peeled the costume mask off his face, the last facade ripped away.†   (source)
  • "But you don't have to create a facade," he said, bewildered.†   (source)
  • Behind the polished façades, bouquets of teased cloth, buffed leather, cunning silver trinkets.†   (source)
  • He pointed toward the facade of the house, toward the light spilling from the French doors.†   (source)
  • She hurried across the yard, keeping her step light and her back to the facade of the house.†   (source)
  • Edgar could see part of the east facade of the Plaza, about a dozen blocks away.†   (source)
  • And Sanxin Façade, it turned out, would be the firm building the glass in Freedom Tower.†   (source)
  • The entire southern facade of the National Counterterrorism Center had been shorn away.†   (source)
  • He had fit in, blended so well, created the best possible facade as a detective.†   (source)
  • School is the one place I can keep up my "perfect" facade; everyone at school buys it.†   (source)
  • Who cares if it's a facade as long as it keeps her happy.†   (source)
  • All of your clever fronts and facades are neatly, perfectly in place, aren't they?†   (source)
  • The hi-bounce rubber ball, the pink spaldeen, rapping back from the brick facade.†   (source)
  • They talked about different facades on buildings around New York—"Have you seen this one," blah, blah, blah, so I hung back and walked next to Nico in uncomfortable silence.†   (source)
  • Then I hop-climbed from window ledge to cornice up the white marble facade, channeling my inner Hulk until I reached the top.†   (source)
  • We've got this whole facade between us, like we're different people all the time, and it's exhausting!†   (source)
  • Up ahead, I see a faded blue facade.†   (source)
  • Would Evan kill one of his own kind to keep up the facade with me—or was he forced to kill them because they thought he was human?†   (source)
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