This coastal chain, like its Rocky Mountain cousins on the eastern flank of the Cordillera, conceals bewildering complexity behind a facade of apparent simplicity.
Mr. Peterson is — to use one of his favorite terms — something of a national archetype, the default setting of the Canadian male: a dull but stern dad, who, under a facade of apparent normalcy and common sense, conceals a reserve of barely contained hostility toward anyone who might rock the boat.
Projecting air-conditioners, often not so apparent on more elaborate facades, are particularly jarring in this case, especially on the 68th Street side.
Oddly shaped forms are grafted onto the facades with no apparent rhyme or reason.
This perspective may even be a problem baked into the industry norm, its apparent purpose being to create a facade that can compete with the behemoths who can afford great prime-time commercials.
Some buildings, for example, appear not only with their park-front facades, but also, in apparent defiance of perspective, with their sides.
Yeah, the facade is plain...
Once you strip away the facade, the inner structure becomes apparent, giving you an architect's overview of the workings of the building.
Yet now, even in states such as Gujarat, cracks in the facade of respectability are becoming more apparent.
"The facade of calm and normality that is apparent to the occasional visitor to the country, and others confined to sections of the capital, belies the consistent patterns of serious human rights violations," the report reads.
In a dig at bland reports by western diplomats and visiting correspondents, the report says: "The facade of calm and normality that is apparent to the occasional visitor to the country, and others confined to sections of the capital, belies the consistent patterns of serious human rights violations".
