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  • The home was a large, three-story, five-bedroom row house with a jagged gray brick facade.†   (source)
  • The entrance was designed to look like the facade of a castle, and you entered the maze through its open gates.†   (source)
  • A small, quiet neighbourhood with Arabic writing and crescent moons inscribed on the facades of the houses.†   (source)
  • Across a staggeringly expansive plaza, the imposing facade of the Louvre rose like a citadel against the Paris sky.†   (source)
  • The American State of China had the appearance of its original country, but was merely a facade.†   (source)
  • Angry with them for letting me engage in a façade.†   (source)
  • The rear of Mercer House was distinctly different from the Italianate façade in front.†   (source)
  • The stone facade of the house.†   (source)
  • Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center, the Greek facades of your government buildings in Washington.†   (source)
  • The outside of the factory was a facade to placate the Nazis.†   (source)
  • She motioned at the big square facade of the Chelsea.†   (source)
  • "No," Kaltain said flatly, the facade falling.†   (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)
  • The house—or what remains of it—is grand: twenty French windows in the facade, big freshly painted shutters, manicured hedges out front.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It had a renovated facade, a recent layer of white stucco topped with connected rows of metal fire-escape ladders.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Four thick columns hold up a Gothic facade of imposing statues and rose windows and intricate carvings.†   (source)
  • Even on television you can see ivy overtaking the crumbling facade, the sag of the roof.†   (source)
  • I have the hardest time trying to maintain a normal facade when I'm feeling so wretched and sad.†   (source)
  • The facade of peace and cooperation had been undisturbed almost since the bugger wars began.†   (source)
  • It makes everything that I thought was happening between us nothing but a façade.†   (source)
  • What would Thoreau have made of Las Vegas: its lights and rackets, its trash and daydreams, its projections and hollow facades?†   (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)
  • A dozen or so tiny windows—like the multiple staring eyes of a spider—are scattered across its stone facade.†   (source)
  • It has two pool tables, a long bar with vinyl stools, and a red-and-blue neon facade.†   (source)
  • …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)
  • EXIT The roar shook the whole facade of the hotel.†   (source)
  • I couldn't keep up the "I'm fine" facade much longer.†   (source)
  • The Twins abruptly dropped their facade of smiles.†   (source)
  • But once you got past the façade and looked in the rooms, most were broken messes.†   (source)
  • To either side of these twin doors spread broad windows of stained glass, rising at least twenty meters toward the overhang. i went closer and inspected the facade.†   (source)
  • I'd never seen him so completely freed of that carefully cultivated facade.†   (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)
  • Damp bunting swelled from building façades.†   (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)
  • He comes around a corner and finds himself on the waterfront street, looking straight into the facade of the Spectrum 2000.†   (source)
  • Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast food conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking facade.†   (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)
  • I went into the Arts Duplex, our newest building, a winged affair with a facade of anodized aluminum, sea-green, cloud-catching.†   (source)
  • To drive home the point, its facade had been designed as a cement replica of a curved CinemaScope screen.†   (source)
  • Idle scribbles at first—a detail from the crumbling facade of the vampire hotel: a fanged gargoyle with bulging eyes.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Start with the 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)
  • Several of the figures were eating directly off the facades.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The wooden facades looked like Gion, but the place had no trees, no lovely Shirakawa Stream, no beautiful entryways.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She'd always sensed he put on a facade of sorts, one she'd never been able to breach.†   (source)
  • Maybe it would be a good idea to establish a facade of normalcy.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But each time I did, I just saw her steely, professional facade, and I wondered how I could have been so mistaken.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Then, as if aware of letting down his facade, he straightened up.†   (source)
  • The family's duplex in Tehran—with the marble on the walls and a marble exterior facade—seemed equally foreign.†   (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)
  • Across the street, a television news van was already setting up with the backdrop of the hotel's facade.†   (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)
  • The facade of the house underwent no alterations.†   (source)
  • I tried to maintain a serene facade in the upstairs chamber, even as I agonized over my husband's safety.†   (source)
  • She continues, "Were the 1920s a period of true intellectualism, or was it just a facade of intellectualism?"†   (source)
  • He pointed at a tall, gaudy facade at the edge of the square.†   (source)
  • …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)
  • The brick facade of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour glistened with dew as we said our good-byes.†   (source)
  • Mia's eyes reach out to meet mine, and for a second I fear that my facade will fall apart.†   (source)
  • But the time for facades was at an end.†   (source)
  • Momentarily disoriented, she looked down the street at the facade that had drawn her attention.†   (source)
  • She fell, her own shot wild, hitting the temple façade behind me, shattering some god, bright-colored chips flying.†   (source)
  • I hurried to my address and was challenged by the sheer height of the white stone with its sculptured bronze facade.†   (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)
  • So much of the Jackal's various facades is tied to the Church.†   (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)
  • Gazing at the facade of the abandoned tenement, he said to himself that he never wanted to leave here again.†   (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)
  • Forgetting the cool facade, she propped her elbows on the table and leaned forward.†   (source)
  • It is raw and urgent, with no facade to hide behind.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The buildings pressed close, their facades blank, chalky, windowless.†   (source)
  • "Who indeed?" retorted Jensin Brent, now a bit of fluster showing through his calm facade.†   (source)
  • Then he chuckled and shifted his eyes away from the glossy faux marble facade of the lofty building.†   (source)
  • I realized that my profession, my reputation, my entire perception of myself was nothing more than a facade.†   (source)
  • And one of those firms was Sanxin Facade, based on the South China Sea.†   (source)
  • The entire southern facade of the National Counterterrorism Center had been shorn away.†   (source)
  • In about three minutes they pulled up before an ornate facade resembling, of all things, the front of a tomb.†   (source)
  • They're just an imposing facade.†   (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)
  • Miles and miles of row houses, all with red brick facades, flat rooftops, four or five marble or sandstone steps.†   (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 Democrats, however, were jubilant—although concealing their glee behind a facade of shocked indignation.†   (source)
  • The whole facade drooped and gave way in the soft light, like the face of an old woman fallen asleep in church.†   (source)
  • They had stopped in front of Taki's, with its sagging roof and windowless facade.†   (source)
  • "The cathedral facade is blocking the searchlight," Langdon said.†   (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 cheeriness of the place now seemed ominous, a facade hiding a darker truth.†   (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)
  • It offers a glimpse of what's hidden behind this huge blank facade.†   (source)
  • Behind the fragile facade of greenery lived a press of people who could gather at a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • The brick facade of a manor house shimmered through the leaves of a circular group of lime trees.†   (source)
  • A squat citadel with a giant, neon equal-armed cross emblazoned atop its facade.†   (source)
  • Shea and I sat in front of the Cue Lounge, a bar and billiards club whose facade was painted black.†   (source)
  • It wasn't enough time for me to pull together a calm facade.†   (source)
  • Or was this all a facade to get what she wanted?†   (source)
  • At the Quinto Patio, with its hot pink facade, a sign beckons: LADIES DANCE.†   (source)
  • Good, I'd succeeded in getting under that perfect facade.†   (source)
  • Her fingers crawl down the facade, find the recess in the front door.†   (source)
  • The only lights on the castle were exterior floods illuminating the facade.†   (source)
  • Do I scale the sheer facade of a ninety-story building, wearing a clip-on belt?†   (source)
  • Her building has a crumbling stoop, a terra cotta—colored facade with a gaudy green cornice.†   (source)
  • As he stood there, the lights on the facade of the church went out, and it was dark all around him.†   (source)
  • The name punches through his mask, cracking the facade of cool indifference, but isn't enough.†   (source)
  • The facade of a grand building rises gracefully, pilastered and crenelated.†   (source)
  • The marble facade blazed like fire in the afternoon sun.†   (source)
  • Tudor facades, tiny metal balconies, wood chips under the stairs.†   (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)
  • The facades had soaring white columns like Roman temples.†   (source)
  • Maintaining a facade of normalcy had been exhausting.†   (source)
  • Finally, I reached the Midgard facade of the Hotel Valhalla.†   (source)
  • I—I am not able to create the perfect facade at all times.†   (source)
  • That was successful for a while, but over time, cracks appeared in the facade.†   (source)
  • He'd maintained the facade without breaking.†   (source)
  • My facade crashed down, but I struggled to keep it together.†   (source)
  • Jason scanned the palace's facade for an entrance.†   (source)
  • Brick facades and chimneys still stood, but wooden frames and roofs had been incinerated.†   (source)
  • But behind the Norman Rockwell facades, each holds its secrets.†   (source)
  • My fingers twitched—the irritation breaking through my perfect facade.†   (source)
  • Simon was sitting on the front steps, looking up at the facade.†   (source)
  • I watched her, forgetting for the moment about being cool and friendly, about maintaining my facade.†   (source)
  • His face was expressionless, the blank facade that meant he was in the grip of some strong emotion.†   (source)
  • Many have an ornate facade of red brick, with four-or five-step stoops leading to the front door.†   (source)
  • It was all a facade, a perfectly designed mask.†   (source)
  • She hurried across the yard, keeping her step light and her back to the facade of the house.†   (source)
  • Charlie was quiet for so long that I wondered if he heard the strain beneath my facade.†   (source)
  • A sign attached to the façade read 7/24/60.†   (source)
  • When Shaunee was gone, some of my happy facade faded.†   (source)
  • The one without the attitude, without the facade.†   (source)
  • But behind the Norman Rockwell facade, I'm slowly coming to terms with our secrets.†   (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)
  • He begins studying the front facades, his step slowing.†   (source)
  • He had fit in, blended so well, created the best possible facade as a detective.†   (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)
  • I wanted to please Moody, even if he saw through the facade of my thin-veiled plan.†   (source)
  • She had the pleasure of seeing his smooth facade shaken a bit by her statement.†   (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)
  • Once she ordered the drink she knew the facade would crumble.†   (source)
  • I cared too much about appearances, about the facade that faced the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • And Sanxin Façade, it turned out, would be the firm building the glass in Freedom Tower.†   (source)
  • I peeled the costume mask off his face, the last facade ripped away.†   (source)
  • His face was as benign as ever, but unlike before, I sensed a strange blankness behind the facade.†   (source)
  • School is the one place I can keep up my "perfect" facade; everyone at school buys it.†   (source)
  • Edgar could see part of the east facade of the Plaza, about a dozen blocks away.†   (source)
  • The view from her bedroom was a firewall on a gable facade.†   (source)
  • The hi-bounce rubber ball, the pink spaldeen, rapping back from the brick facade.†   (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)
  • Up ahead, I see a faded blue 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)
  • …lost, along the banks of the Hoolie River in the "sparsely populated section of town where the Old City decays into Jacktown amid a jumble of tall warehouses which prevent even a glimpse of the ruined towers of the cathedral until one turns a corner onto a narrow cul-de-sac and there is the shell of the cathedral; its chapter house has half fallen away into the river, its facade is pocked with remnants of the mournful, apocalyptic statuary of the post-Hegira expansionist period.†   (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)
  • These gave way to Ardsley Park, an enclave of early twentieth-century houses with proud façades that featured columns, pediments, porticoes, and terraces.†   (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)
  • Their small flat was in a once handsome building, with an ornate though now crumbling facade that dated back to the colonial era, in a once upscale, presently crowded and commercial, part of town.†   (source)
  • I noticed a discolored outline on the building's facade where the Hilton logo used to be, back when the place had been a hotel.†   (source)
  • The way they were all packed together, they seemed to share one continuous facade—which once again gave me the terrible feeling of being lost.†   (source)
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