facade

"The facade may be solid, but behind it lies a field of ruins."

The front organization functions both ways: as the facade of the totalitarian movement to the nontotalitarian world, and as the facade of this world to the inner hierarchy of the movement.

Pictures from the scene in Place de Coimbra, an area of the city known for drug-related crimes, showed the restaurant's facade riddled with bullet holes.

Nearly as illuminating as the interview are the letters, diary entries and other materials from Stewart shared from her personal archive, which capture the fiery emotion roiling beneath her icy facade.

While Ohtani maintained a calm facade, his teammates were clearly uplifted by his presence.