Sentence examples for maintaining appearances from inspiring English sources

Corean believed in maintaining appearances.

Women played a critical role in maintaining appearances by calling at the correct houses and hosting selective soirées.

The parents in Inge's plays don't know how their children feel, because they're eaten up by the effort of maintaining appearances.

"We've found Albert Herring to be quite a New Labour opera," says Lloyd. "It's all about maintaining appearances and the avoidance of scandal.

Maintaining appearances cannot have been easy, for Mr. Whitehead has spent the last three months at the Rikers Island Detention Complex on a parole violation, and was arrested there Thursday on the latest charges.

He knew about maintaining appearances and placating benefactors, and he invests the scene of Victoria's conversion (which we've included in this clip) with an extraordinary, nearly mind-bending intensity.

At family gatherings he maintained appearances.

"They would do anything to maintain appearances," he said.

And even when that ran out, Modigliani maintained appearances.

In a crumbling old Victorian home, a family crumbles while doing their best to maintain appearances and lie to themselves.

In June 2012, on the day of his election, Morsi seemed to understand the need to maintain appearances.