Sentence examples for an appearance of normality from inspiring English sources

If Willis's form of denial is relentless irony, hers is maintaining an appearance of normality, as if distress were also a disease, and a shameful one.

This is foreign territory for them all, and as Roger bullies Catherine into an appearance of normality, she is surprised to find her usually remote colleagues - Ben, vast and enigmatic; Julian, preening and brittle; Dagmar, a young woman as fiercely independent as Catherine is shackled to fear - piquing her interest, and perhaps her passion.

He creates the same impression that would have been made by an ordinary seated figure, preserving an appearance of normality without disguising Seneb's unusual physique.

This reflects the actions of the women in this study who were often reluctant to share information with their partners regarding perineal pain or incontinence so as to protect the partner from experiencing distress and concern, and maintain an appearance of normality [ 44].

On a day when the appearance of normality was a precious commodity at the White House, Mr. Clinton's only public event was a ceremony in which he officially received the report of the Advisory Board to the President's Initiative on Race.

It indicates a widely shared experience that enhances the appearance of normality.

Opposition sources said prisoners had been moved and tanks concealed inside government buildings to give the appearance of normality.

While her mother, Marjorie, ferociously insistent about the appearance of normality, would gossip merrily with Woody, and her older brothers, Arlo and Joady, would sing to him, she would curdle with humiliation.

They have caught the public's imagination not because of outdated deference to royalty but because of their appearance of normality and togetherness even amid the strictures of royal protocol and the frenzy of press coverage.

Traveling into "liberated" (i.e. rebel-controlled) Syria, I was initially struck by the appearance of normality.

This may also be characterized by a sense of shock or numbness at what has happened, and although we give the appearance of normality, we may only be going through the motions but enormous change is occurring in our life.