Sentence examples for quiet facades from inspiring English sources

As in a Cheever novel, secrets and emotional history lie behind seemingly quiet facades.

"From the onset, we believed a quiet facade was appropriate," he said.

Its first choice, a lofty modern structure of glass, so different from the quiet facade, is jarring to the borough's preservationists, historians and architects, who gathered at the museum yesterday to politely express their objections.

Surprises lie in store when you enter the new-old gallery behind its quiet Arts and Crafts facade.

The guidebook spoke of the facade's "quiet classical graciousness"; it seemed rather to boast wealth and power, the kind of place that explains why revolutions happen.

We stop in front of the ample patrician house of the Gonzenbach family, who settled here at the beginning of the seventeenth century and grew rich in the canvas business, admiring the little tower through which the street passes, and the Venetian balconies, the quiet courtyard, the peaceful facade of the stately home with its double staircase and weathervane.

Beneath her meek, humble facade is a quiet, volcanic fury, the flowering of which is among the film's many surprising satisfactions.

The Russian soon found 19 Heinstrasse, a five-storey office and apartment building with a flat, pale green and beige facade in a quiet, slightly down-at-heel neighbourhood in Vienna's north end.

Located alongside several Korean churches on 33rd Avenue, a quiet suburban street, the mosque's facade is a blend of ancient Muslim arching designs and a smooth gray marble.

But she underplays beautifully here, emphasizing an outsider's quiet watchfulness, which lurks behind the strained social facade, and a kindliness toward her fellow outcasts.

Behind an unpromising black facade on north London's Caledonian Road, a quiet revolution has begun.