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  • To a local, all those empty storefronts are evidence of poverty - but to Hollywood, they're a blank canvas, ready to be prop-decorated and facaded with fake storefronts!

    New York In An Afternoon ericmonster 2006

  • Beyond the ripening tomatoes you can see the side door to the stone facaded garage.

    Veggie Harvest « Fairegarden 2008

  • Yeh GOP ‘facade’, how many more little predators does the GOP have facaded?

    Think Progress » Conservatives Respond To Foley Scandal With Anti-Gay Smears 2006

  • The corridor gave onto metal-facaded double doors with ostentatious brass doorknobs in the centre of each.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

  • I remember once to have stopped in the street with a fair countrywoman of mine to interrogate a little figure in sabots, -- the one quaint object in the long, formal perspective of narrow, gray bastard-Italian facaded houses of a Rhenish German Strasse.

    The Twins of Table Mountain Bret Harte 1869

  • The seven-room duplex is located in the Neo-classical, limestone-facaded 1929 building dubbed, "one of the most storied coops in New York City" by the

    All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

  • Instead of such elegant buildings, they raise humongous skyscrapers made with cold steel and impersonal glass facaded structures, meant to make the most of space jutting upwards, void of any human creativity and creative impulses such as those shown here in the magnificence of the JB old town heritage.

    MAHAGURU58 2008

  • I am going to think of the man in this video, who plays a red violin, quite awfully if I may say so, but quite beautifully i shall say so, in the ruins of perhaps an abandoned village, in a mountain in north of Tehran which in most likelihood awaits the ugly monsters of developers to wreak havoc to it and turn it into stunningly beautiful marble floored and granite facaded apartment complexes, that are to be occupied by a new-rich of lowest intellects and highest complicity, who has perhaps ascended through a thick rope of connection to the ruling elite in Iran, while acting like a poor populist stinky bearded tuna melt in the oven of the grand leader!

    neo-resistance 2009

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