maintain a facade

She did not much care for them anyway, but she had to maintain a facade of geniality.

He could not avoid the feeling that fate had arranged some dread event for him, and was maintaining a facade.

By using such paramilitary structures, the leaders were able to maintain a facade of plausible deniability.

Now the wise extra-mural department would doubtless maintain a facade of what appear to be voluntary committees.

Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death.

I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Brachiano is another who maintains a facade.

Normally J maintained a facade of British reserve and imperturbability that made him seem hardly human.

Most of his customers maintain a facade of normality in order to gain semblance and hide their tumultuous lives to some extent.

The unsophisticated and desperate ones brazened it out by maintaining a facade of affluence or normalcy by borrowing.

A few Whites, all but one Warderless, attempted to maintain a facade of cool reason while jumping at their own footfalls.

In fact, he has his fingers in most other illegal activities in the city, while maintaining a facade of solid respectibility.

The report also said that Tharp was frequently heard "saying that coaches had to maintain a facade of 'plausible deniability."'

In the following years, Ms. Bosworth relates, the family's problems accelerated, though her parents did their best to maintain a facade of glittering conviviality.

If he had any hope of discovering and thwarting the Falorian plans, he had to maintain a facade of trust.

And while Gregor was careful to maintain a facade of Imperial even-handedness, no one had any doubt the Progressives were the party he privately favored.

I was amazed at my ability to maintain a facade of self-assurance, though of course my heart was trembling with anxiety at each word.

American and Saudi investigators have attempted to maintain a facade of mutual assistance, with periodic pledges of cooperation and occasional discussions of the case.

For Deanna's sake he had maintained a facade of placid control, but his emotions felt like a storm battering the empty shores of his psyche.

De Bouillé carefully maintained a facade of peace in his dealings with Dominican authorities while he began preparing his forces on Martinique.

The reason Saddam is not showing this to his people is because it makes him look weak, and his whole regime depends on his maintaining a facade of invincibility.

Modigliani used drink and drugs as palliatives to ease his physical pain, helping him to maintain a facade of vitality and allowing him to continue to create his art.

Officially, the Reagan Administration maintains a facade of indifference to the ups and downs of the financial markets, but worry over the stock market's great fall this week are beginning to pierce through.