Sentence examples for fragile facade from inspiring English sources
Rising up between the great slot windows at the southern end, steel bowstring trusses will hold the fragile facade in place.
Behind the cloud-studded blue are the facades of fragile monuments under restoration; those structures are also the beneficiaries of the advertising revenue.
These brightly-coloured, cartoon-like facades seem to epitomise the fragile state of Somalia's recovery: rising commercialism on a canvas of rubble and bullet-holes.Back at the airport, I meet brigadier general Dick Olum, who heads the Ugandan contingent of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), the multinational "peace enforcement" body tasked with restoring law and order.
And for "Quiz Show," he examined the flip side of fragile masculinity, as an ultra-smooth talk show host carefully masking any emotion for fear of cracking the facade.
The assumption behind much disaster response by the authorities – and the logic of bombing civilians – is that civilisation is a brittle facade, and behind it lies our true nature as monstrous, selfish, chaotic and violent, or as timid, fragile, and helpless.
The gigantic ads on tarpaulins are hiding — it must be said — facades of buildings under restoration, and the profits derived from the sale of the space contribute to the costly renovations of Venice's fragile monuments.
Who will prune the facade?
The principal facade appeared untouched.
The facade leads you in".
