Sentence examples similar to false front of respectability from inspiring English sources

Yet "he put on a false front of confident ease and farm-boy garrulousness" to raise the troops' morale.

This errand will keep up the false front of his mission to any watchful eyes.

Too many of the world's finance centres enable the predators who rely on offshore corporate vehicles to mask their identities; loop their finances through offshore jurisdictions; and use prestigious law firms, accountants, financial advisers and public relations firms to give their destructive behaviour a false veneer of respectability.

At best, this initiative leans toward a false hope of respectability.

I came to think of the concept of home as an elaborately constructed false front".

"Millions of people read the false front page banner headline and they deserve to see the truth.

Always putting on a false front.

Sometimes our sense of being overly vulnerable prompts us to downplay our emotions, or put up a false front.

In the film, Los Angeles is a world of false fronts and phony people.

Nev quoted Facebook's estimate that something like 8percentt of its accounts are false fronts.

It allows for false fronts, a false bravado and, with both, a false, reckless velocity.