The phrase "actually fronts" is not standard in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in informal contexts where someone is discussing the act of presenting or showcasing something, but clarity is essential.
Example: "In the debate, she actually fronts her arguments with solid evidence, making her points more persuasive."
Alternatives: "truly presents" or "genuinely showcases".
Edelman does its work by cultivating contacts among the country's opinion élites, with whom it emphasizes the good news and spins the bad; by such tactics as establishing "Astroturf" groups, seemingly grass-roots organizations that are actually fronts for industry; and, as I deduced from my own visit to Bentonville, by advising corporate executives on how to speak like risk-averse politicians.
Thrillers like John Farrow's "Big Clock" (1948) and John Huston's "Asphalt Jungle" (1950) found their heavies in apparently respectable businessmen who were actually fronts for crime and corruption -- a tradition revived in 1974 by Roman Polanski's "Chinatown," in which Huston, wearing his acting hat, played a Los Angeles real estate mogul with more than one dirty secret in his past.
Here's why: At this time of the year, tax prep offices that are actually fronts for criminal identity theft tend to pop up around the country in strip malls and other properties and then promptly disappear a few days later.
While Bryarly was the one actually fronting the cost to bring in the talent and selling the actual tickets, the act of acquiring talent was a shared, crowdsourced happening each and every gig.
I went home with a little nugget of unexpressed belief that I might actually front crawl that length one day.
But as I'm sure many other people have told or you've read, it's a very odd experience working with Woody, unless you're actually fronting one of his films.
More broadly, they said, far from being a national movement advocating a "pro-paycheck message," the group is actually a front for a coterie of political operatives, devised to sidestep campaign disclosure rules.
There are actually several front-lines.
He showed great acceleration and I was actually in front sooner than I wanted to be.
As Chris McManus explains in his remarkable new book "Right Hand, Left Hand," a mirror actually reverses front and back.
Habana was actually in front of the kicker, which is illegal as Brian Moore explains at painstaking length.
