false front

But honestly, it felt scarier to me in the beginning of my life not talking about it and just keeping everything inside and then having to put on this sort of false front.

Winthrop’s old-timey appearance today is a false front, to a degree.

He’d pull out his false front tooth to show the result of a collision with a crossbar to amuse his three daughters at the kitchen table.

But McClay, the author of the textbook “Land of Hope,” also said it didn’t have to present a “false front” of unity.

However, for a few, it's wearing off and they are feeling the exhaustion of having to keep up a false front --- the veil is falling from their eyes and they can no longer look away.