Literary notes about facade (AI summary)
In literature, the word "facade" is employed both to depict physical structures and to evoke deeper symbolic meaning. Writers use it to describe detailed architectural elements—a building’s carefully arranged windows, brickwork or ornamental features, as seen when a fresco embellishes a stately exterior [1] or when a building’s polished front outlines the skyline and landscape [2]. At the same time, "facade" often carries a metaphorical weight, suggesting that an attractive surface or a noble exterior might hide underlying imperfections, pretense, or decay, as when a brave facade conceals an inferiority complex [3] or when the crumbling face of antiquity mirrors the deterioration of the human spirit [4].
- The painter Ferdinand Andri executed the frescoes on the facade and Meinrich Tomec those in the department for waterways.
— from Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission - From the windows in the facade there is a beautiful view of the city, the winding Missouri, and the hazy blue bluffs beyond.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota - A brave facade of self sufficiency covers up a vast hinterland of inferiority complex fully supported by real inferiority.
— from Financial Crime and Corruption by Samuel Vaknin - A whole facade of the human mind half crumbled, that is antiquity.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo
