Sentences with phrase «to keep up appearances»

This is especially true where local convention requires keeping up appearances of family harmony.

Some couples have decided to keep up appearances for one last holiday season as an intact family.

And, to him, this shows that they're diligent about keeping up their appearances and overall state of being.

Some people are so concerned with looking cool and sexy that they become too wrapped up in keeping up appearances that they come off as cold and boring.

But publicly, they at least kept up appearances.

I was the help for a family that kept up all appearances until I got pregnant.

Keeping up appearances When considering the design of a school website, it is highly recommended to take into account the maintenance factor.

He wanted to learn, to feel good, and began keeping up his appearance.

It's that much harder to be present in the truth because you're so busy keeping up appearances.

As much as I would love to keep up the appearance of being perfect, I just can't!

Whatever happens out on the road, you'll need to keep up appearances with a decent virtual office — and that means someone answering your phone calls while you're away.

From a purely practical standpoint, it makes sense to at least keep up the appearance that the data is coming from the covered entity directly.

Many people actually borrow money to keep up appearances when they can't afford a night at the pub at the end of the month.

So if your teacher was pro-McCain, he may have felt that Bush was an idiot for not keeping up appearances for another year or two until he was out of office.

• Ascertain that the reception area is kept clean and tidy at all times while keeping up the appearance of professionalism.

Homme Less (Unrated) American Dream deferred documentary chronicling the plight of homeless, former fashion model Mark Reay who keeps up appearances by day, while sleeping on a Manhattan rooftop at night.

«The debt also prevented the chain from keeping up the appearance of its stores and ensuring its employees were well - paid.»

All those wonderful yesterday well - wishing birthday greetings help keep up appearances — a power of goodness impossible to extinguish.

It's that whole «what will the neighbors think» mentality that results in too much time spent keeping up appearances, doing good works just so that you can be seen doing them, and worrying about how fabric choices in the new parish hall parlor will reflect on us as a congregation.

Just as Jeroboam claimed: «Behold your gods... who brought you up out of the land of Israel,» because it was the true God he wanted to worship, so Ahaz keeps up appearances, observing all the ordinances laid down by Yahweh.

I've kept up appearances quite well.»

The initials on the bag are key and has definitely kept up its appearance the past 2 years I have had it.

In episode 201, the second season premiere, Tommy outmaneuvers a U.S. attorney as he and Eileen keep up the appearance of a happy marriage; Michael tries to reestablish his memory and his territory.

To her left is the Kepps, Bina (Kudrow) and Jerry (Robinson), whose marriage is struggling so bad they don't even bother keeping up the appearance of smiling happiness or tolerable hatred anymore.

Ultimately, this is about a woman's place at this time; how tolerant they were expected to be and how keeping up appearances was at the forefront of their place within a fractured, consumerist environment.

Over the years after its introduction, the Dodge Ram kept up appearances until the advent of the second generation in 1993.

However, this game of keeping up appearances becomes too difficult after a trip to the nurse, and Ash is exposed to her superiors: Her mesmerizing, heart - rending journey from her jail cell back to her beloved Bartholomew is sure to absolutely captivate readers.

SpaQ day spa offers many pampering treatments, including manicures and pedicures so your teen can keep up appearances whilst away.

Previous games haven't really focused on the fact that Bruce Wayne is the mask and Batman is the secret identity, so I appreciated how much the game emphasizes keeping up appearances as Bruce and maintaining his affable but somewhat clueless billionaire playboy façade.

Keeping up appearances here, the Nendoroid version of Tracer is suitably stubby looking, but comes complete with a set of weaponry and even the ability to have move her hair over her face to emulate her famous victory pose.

Other Frieze = > Baselers — Sadie Coles, Leo Xu, Long March's Lu Jie and David Tang, Lorcan O'Neill, Sean Kelly, James Cohan, Jay Jopling, and the like — try their best to keep up appearances despite layovers, delays, sixteen - hour flights.

Keeping up appearances counts for a lot in China, but rarely do they conceal such a huge health crisis: in China's 14 largest cities alone, air pollution is responsible for the deaths of 50,000 newborns each year, writes the Shanghai Star newspaper.

In another study Keeping up Appearances: Perceptions of Street Food Safety in Urban Kumasi, Ghana (September, 2008), it was noticed that consumers prioritize price and accessibility of food — failing to put much thought into the food safety.

It's also great to hold, and the smooth matte finish keeps up appearances with a resistance to fingerprints and smudges.

Fortunately, 148 - year - old Yale is doing more than just keeping up appearances.

You can't keep up appearances forever and you will appear unconvincing and risk putting your opportunity at risk by not being yourself and trying to be the person the employer wants you to be.

Law firms began lining up for new space to keep up appearances after Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw agreed to anchor Hyatt Center at 71 S. Wacker in 2002.

All this fretting about keeping up appearances means that over a quarter of those surveyed (26 %) are unhappy with the way at least TWO rooms are decorated in the house.

Plus, if you say yes all the time, you may appear over-eager, and more interested in keeping up appearances than doing what's best for the company.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

The beauty of this deal is that IDC members can support, even co-sponsor, progressive legislation, to keep up appearances with their constituents.

Now she must learn to dodge bullets while keeping up an appearance of normalcy.

Once you've utilized the cleaning services of the vinegar / soap / water solution, you can keep up appearances by using either straight vinegar for extra grime, or a solution of equal parts water and vinegar.

This isn't about keeping up appearances, but it is about finding Sugar Daddy or Sugar Baby fun right now.

If «Les Misérables» does anything well, it's in keeping up appearances of being an Oscar contender.