Sentence examples for facade of normalcy from inspiring English sources

Washington Heights had a facade of normalcy about it yesterday.

Behind the sale of such trinkets and the facade of normalcy, there are fears.

Despite a facade of normalcy -- classes were not canceled and pedestrians walked the snowy grounds as on any other afternoon -- yellow police tape flapping from trees and squad cars parked here and there piqued the interest of passers-by.

It suggests that the 50's facade of normalcy -- represented by the routinized, orderly lives of Frank and Cathy Whitaker Dennis Quaid and Julianne Mooree) -- concealed both incendiary passions and a ruthless social machinery devoted to their suppression.

"How easy it would be to become eccentric," another character muses, "to just give up the facade of normalcy and its uniforms, to let yourself go, go wild, to swing out farther and farther away from the center".

She also mocks Sonny's desire to join the world of what she calls the squares, who are portrayed throughout the movie as hypocritically kinky behind the facade of normalcy.

By taking an active role in the conflict, Damascus residents can push back against the capital's facade of relative normalcy.

As WorldCom's accounting scandal has illustrated, the failure of Internet traffic to grow at anything near the predicted pace contributed to the pressure on its executives to create a facade of financial normalcy.

The facade of semi-normalcy I'd struggled to maintain was falling away, revealing the person I'd been since childhood.

In Tribeca, he deploys the cornices and rows of uniform, period-style windows as a sign of normalcy that is subverted by the fragmented facades.

"My sense of normalcy was warped.