Sentence examples for facade it was from inspiring English sources

The smile, the jokes and the charitable spirit were all there, but beneath the joyous facade it was easy to see that Jayson Williams was troubled.

Tate Modern is to get a summer facelift, with a group of the world's most acclaimed street artists being asked to produce work for the building's Thames-side facade, it was announced yesterday.

With its trapezoidal windows and stepped-back facade, it's what the Guggenheim isn't: starchitecture with the right amount of ego, meaning that it works for art.

Farley Farm House in Sussex has an 18th-century, self-effacing, red-brick facade – it is in no hurry to give its extraordinary history away.

So therefore this is a facade, it's a mirage.

As it says on the house facade: "It is truly swizzfiggingly flushbunkingly gloriumptious".

When cracks appear in this facade, it is both natural and healthy to try to see through these cracks.

"Other than the facade, it's going to be a new building, with new elevators, new mechanical systems, new bathrooms and a new central courtyard," he said.

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).

Teledesic's new headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., presents a thrifty facade: it is the back half of a warehouse abutting a railroad line in an industrial section of town.

Steve Crotch, another resident at the Nouvel building, said that despite the condominium's fabulous facade — it is made up of hundreds of panes of glass that hang together like a shattered mirror just before the pieces fall to the floor — he felt it was the prisoners who were the victims of the view.