façade
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Today, visitors enter via the ornate Nativity façade, on the church’s eastern side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Mocked by some as the “Darth Vader” façade for its bizarrely helmeted Roman soldiers, the Passion façade embodies the New Testament story of betrayal, suffering and transcendence in angular, expressionistic figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But step past the luxury façade into the basement, and the quiet disappears.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
A Hezbollah flag had been put on what was left of the façade of his grocery, destroyed after an Israeli air strike hit the building next door last month.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Behind his innocent façade of a doctor without prestige there was hidden a terrorist who with his short-legged boots covered the scars that five years in the stocks had left on his legs.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962, the terminal has a dramatic, glass-walled facade with a sloping roofline that recalls a wingspan.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
BALTIMORE—With its boarded-up windows and peeling facade, the vacant building didn’t seem like the kind of house that would prompt a bidding war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The latest proposal would instead add “Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump” to the facade and name the surrounding grounds “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
But a tarp has remained over the facade since that time, sparking questions about the actual changes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I loved Malcolm because Malcolm never lied, unlike the schools and their facade of morality, unlike the streets and their bravado, unlike the world of dreamers.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Not only that, but a lot of “Love Story” takes place behind the public facades of Kennedy and Bessette, in the offices of Calvin Klein and inside Kennedy’s Tribeca loft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
A 2025 simulation of a densely populated neighbourhood in the French city of Lyon showed that air conditioners installed on building facades could locally raise the air temperature by 1.75C.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The fortunes of Havana's colonial buildings mirror that of the nearly seven-decade-old revolution, their peeling pastel-colored facades are symbols of the repeated crises that have rocked the island, and its surprising resilience.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Stuf’s business model means it doesn’t put up new buildings with blank facades, but neither does it bring new life to existing commercial strips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
I knew the streets, the towers, the somber courts and ways and facades of the Palace.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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