Beneath Ms. Cary's tough facade, an embattled romanticism peeks through in her versions of "Angel Eyes," "All the Way" and "At Long Last Love".
But behind the tough facade lies a touching back story: he's been openly gay in the force since the mid-80s and has taken his fair share of abuse.
What emotion she reveals tends to leak through a tough, assertive facade as her voice momentarily cracks into a quivering vibrato.
Despite their tough facade -- the helmeted shell, leather-black eyes, and stiff exclamation-point tail -- horseshoe crabs are relatively harmless.
Just imagine, I suggested, such powers in the possession of a ranting bully who exaggerates and lies without shame — a man who sports a tough-guy facade but is in fact a coward who picks on women, demeans minorities and is thoroughly lacking in human dignity.
Our tough facades quickly melted as the movie progressed, with Tommy Kehoe running out of the theater during Linda Blair's notorious intimate encounter with a Crucifix.
The lady cops drop their tough facades and turn into two regular girls from Queens who just got their nails done.
She finds Brody curled up in a corner, his Marine-tough facade utterly shattered.
Alex, beneath her super-tough facade, has a soft heart and a poetic bent.
