| Louis was the sort of low-grade man child that shoestring celebrities often employ as muscle to keep up appearances and work as a butler. |
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| It was just a general, unspecific blanket condemnation of that sort of thing, you know, to keep up appearances. |
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| The residents of tree-lined avenues in Surrey will probably start petitioning to have higher charges to keep up appearances. |
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| But to keep up appearances, perhaps for the benefit of us tourists, a ridiculous play is acted out. |
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| My parents, brothers, and sisters would be here, so we had to keep up appearances. |
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| They despise each other, but of course must keep up appearances in front of the sensitive young mistress. |
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| The only thing expressed in this election was a cry for help from a confused and lost nation, desperate to keep up appearances. |
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| The singer feigns ignorance, and makes a valiant if contradictory effort to keep up appearances. |
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| Desperate to keep up appearances, they travel to the fashionable salons of Europe in search of a wealthy suitor to marry their daughter Amy. |
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| It's not very clean, although more care is taken to keep up appearances in summer. |
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| We keep up appearances and avoid what might lead to conflict. |
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| Her boyfriend had dumped her, the staff at the newspaper had bailed on her, yet still she managed to keep up appearances, as if nothing was wrong. |
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| For the other 364 days, the turkeys struggle to keep up appearances, and to get by. |
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| With the latter there is no winking, no fig leaves, no need to keep up appearances. |
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| Most want to keep up appearances, even if their preference is not in doubt. |
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| Mr. Speaker, what the government is not saying is that, this year, it has managed to keep up appearances. |
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| During the announcement of candidacies there was not even an attempt to keep up appearances. |
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| But how do you keep up appearances when there's no bus to let you appear? |
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| They may feel that family and friends don't understand what they're going through. Some women also want to keep up appearances, and don't want to burden their families with their troubles. |
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| Even if the opposite is claimed to keep up appearances, we can conclude that inequality is not an undesirable random consequence that can be corrected, but a key mechanism for the model's workings. |
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| Desperate to keep up appearances, they search for a wealthy suitor for their daughter and hire a Canadian writer to educate their sickly, gifted son. |
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| Or have we just found new ways to keep up appearances? |
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| Desperate to keep up appearances they travel to the fashionable salons of Europe, search for a wealthy suitor to marry their daughter and hire an aspiring Canadian writer to educate their sickly genius son. |
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| This ambiguity cannot remain concealed behind fine sounding final declarations in which attempts are made to keep up appearances of European unanimity. |
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| It was important to keep up appearances and not give European citizens the impression that the structures of a federal state were being put in place. |
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| They prefer for the European Commission to continue with the same instruments and policies that have led to this situation, albeit with a few pink and green touch-ups to keep up appearances. |
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| And it is possible that some of our colleagues in Parliament will throw up their hands in horror, and even say that we need to keep up appearances, and that they are against hooded men and women appearing in Parliament. |
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| Sophia, who was anxious not to be reckoned a usurpress and who wished to keep up appearances, held two thrones and two crowns on behalf of Ivan and Peter. |
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