Sentence examples for elegant facade from inspiring English sources

Paint a picture of this proud, splendid and welcoming hotel, with it's elegant facade, its morning-coated doorman and its worldly concierge, waiting to welcome you in.

Its elegant facade overlooks all the other 19th-century architectural splendours along the Paseo del Prado, including Havana's exquisite opera house.

But wildlife experts say that the swan's elegant facade conceals an ecological menace that devours shoreline vegetation, scares away other waterfowl and can even attack humans.

That is how she ended up spending an evening at Lyon's famed opera house, which has 18 levels, an elegant facade and a foyer; it is often praised as one of France's most dramatic stages.

Wittnauer International, based in New Rochelle, contributed its time and resources to fixing the clock, and it recently was replaced in the elegant facade of the stately former bank building.

The store had to be rebuilt after it was destroyed in a fire that resulted from the 1906 earthquake, but the elegant facade remained intact and will be restored.

These buildings are considered striking examples of the Rococo palace; they combine interior comfort with noble, simple, and elegant facades that have an impressive public grandeur.

The city's elegant facades look better maintained than they did when I was last there a little more than two years ago, and any potential fuel problem clearly does not extend to petrol.

The elegant facades of shuttered department stores are being restored to their former Art Deco glory, historic fronts are being preserved and new buildings seem to be going up daily.

Architects have started using it to give a touch of historical sobriety to new suburban palazzos, and conservators have begun restoring the elegant facades of grand monuments like the Cooper Union on Astor Place in Manhattan, where Abraham Lincoln addressed crowds before the 1860 election.

Many of them daily walk by Jackson Square, which was designed and built by the French baroness of the title, an American who was born here, lived unhappily and violently in France and returned home in 1849 to oversee this series of elegant facades and galleries.