(n.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time, many of the buildings along the road have had their facades cleaned.
(2) And yet I sense a crumbling of the monumental Boris facade, the great artificial construct designed to make him prime minister, for reasons I have never understood.
(3) Yet beneath the facade of implacable command was a moody, capricious man with a strained marriage: while he was in India, his wife Edwina had allegedly conducted an affair with the Indian politician Nehru.
(4) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(5) Seven years later, the terms most frequently used to describe Mali's democracy during that era are "sham", "facade" and "empty shell".
(6) Houses with shattered windows were marked by bullet holes in their facades.
(7) "The organisers of this scam went to great lengths to provide a facade of legitimacy.
(8) They are looking into concrete formwork, the concrete that you’ll see next to the expressways, and facades of buildings.
(9) And then there is the erotic element, Scott's hint that "behind the facade of pots and pans there is sometimes another image … a private one … sensed rather than seen".
(10) Earlier in the evening, a number of demonstrators attacked a branch of Starbucks, smashing its front windows and ransacking it before shattering the facade of a clothes shop.
(11) Anti-Fifa campaigners make their Marx Anti-Fifa campaigners have spread their message in illuminating style by beaming a protest slogan on to the facade of a hotel in Rio de Janeiro where football officials were staying.
(12) The project’s co-director Max Wakefield says: “By helping people create tangible relationships with energy, we can enable an understanding of the need to reduce demand.” Despite the private tech industry’s seeming invincibility in many areas of consumer life, from copyright to privacy , there are cracks in the facade .
(13) Only once during the trial did a crack appear in his dispassionate facade.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kaisa-talo blends into the historic facade of the city There are a number of terrific old buildings in the city, but I’m going to pick Helsinki University’s new library building, Kaisa-talo.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, behind the nihilistic, numb facade of his new character, the Thin White Duke, Bowie was in trouble.
(16) Scratch at our egalitarian facade, I say, and you'll discover inequalities of means and wealth that even Louis XIV would never have dared contemplate.
(17) There is no link with the surrounding city to be found, not even a true facade.
(18) "Behind an orderly facade, the government pressured, intimidated and threatened Ethiopian voters," Rona Peligal, the acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said.
(19) Behind the facade, though, North Koreans want the same things as just about everyone else - or at least that's what defector after defector has said.
(20) More profoundly, the presidency itself was revealed to be an empty facade when Putin handed it over for a term, minus its powers, to Medvedev.
Guise
Definition:
(n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
(n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
(n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(2) Russia is alleged to have infiltrated special forces into Ukraine in the guise of rebels.
(3) Some desire just to live in the old ways but in a new guise: newly rich and empowered.
(4) Ethical issues regarding saline infusion in the guise of a potent convulsant should also be considered.
(5) While the U.S. Bureau of the Census has had a long-standing policy of abstaining from enumerating the religious beliefs or backgrounds of the American people, at least two-thirds of the Jewish population of the United States has been enumerated in decennial censuses and sample surveys in the guise of persons of Russian stock or origin.
(6) They were not observed in the hybrid cells but had supposedly reappeared in the guise of the CBs.
(7) Among China's other arguments are that countries should not interfere in each other's domestic affairs; that western definitions of human rights do not acknowledge China's fast-rising living standards; and that the west is seeking to impose its own standards in the guise of "universal values".
(8) Russia’s takeover of Crimea was done under the guise of a snap exercise.
(9) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
(10) The Foreign Office should not hide behind any relationship with foreign governments under the guise of ‘commercial sensitivity’,” they said.
(11) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
(12) Matthew Ryder QC, counsel for Trimingham, told Mr Justice Tugendhat the newspaper had a right to freedom of expression, but not to abuse her repeatedly under the guise of exercising that freedom.
(13) We suggest that PMR may present in a variety of guises, or have a "stuttering evolution" to the full syndrome.
(14) Kim may have ordered the confiscation of copies of the video under the guise of a crackdown on pornography, Ishimaru said.
(15) In the guise of a creative writing experiment, male and female college students were asked to listen to a tape recording of a same- or opposite-sex model relating a story in response to a sample TAT card.
(16) The inventions all seemed to herald a brave new world of British prosperity that never transpired, at least not in its engineering guise.
(17) What he of course won't accept is efforts to do away with the ACA that come in the guise of improvements.
(18) Shapps, in his guise as the multi-millionaire web guru in charge of the internet marketing company How To Corp, invited three internet entrepreneurs – Harvey Segal, Mani Sivasubramanian and Martin Avis – to Westminster in 2006 for the tour and an evening meal.
(19) Unlike most character comedians, who tend to keep their repertoire to half a dozen guises at the most, Enfield is known for doing such a broad spectrum of characters that it seems a strange choice to take one sketch and stretch it out into an hour and a half's worth of gags big enough to look good on 35mm.
(20) Army troops violently dispersed several protests in Tahrir Square and, in one incident admitted by the ruling generals, sexually assaulted female protesters under the guise of " virginity checks ".