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Discover LudwigThe phrase "all facade" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is superficial or deceptive, suggesting that there is more beneath the surface than what is being presented.
Example: "The company's commitment to sustainability was just all facade, as they continued to pollute the environment."
Alternatives: "purely superficial" or "just a front".
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"All facade".
"Theirs is a Potemkin foreign policy of all facade and no substance," he said.
The new Roath Lock studios for BBC Wales in Cardiff are, architecturally speaking, almost all facade.
When he built his house, a neo-Palladian fantasy, he remarked, very tellingly, "The house is just like me -- all facade" (it is 86 feet wide and only 18 feet deep).
Not all facade projections are authorized or institutionally approved: In 2014 and 2016, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction, a group that fights for the rights of workers in Abu Dhabi, where a branch of the Guggenheim Museum is planned, projected messages like "Ultra luxury art, ultra low wages" on the facade of the Guggenheim in New York.
Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com called it "a pretty movie to look at with its grandiose sets and top notch creature FX, but it's a lot like Anderson's previous works in that it's all facade and no foundation".
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"Behind all the facade of yelling and screaming, there is a man who cares for survivors".
"Strip away all the facade and it's the same story in all my movies: people relying on their intelligence and wit to overcome great obstacles," he said.
In 1998, after bricks fell from a Madison Avenue office building, the city passed a regulation known as Local Law 11, calling for inspection of all facades over six stories.
1700 Paris, France April 1771 St .Petersburg, Russia Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli, (born 1700, Paris, France died April 1771, St .Petersburg, Russia) French-born inventor of an opulent Russian Baroque architecture that combined elements of Rococo with traditional elements of Russian architecture, producing multicoloured and decorative ornamentation on all facades.
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