put on a good face

"This is a chance for the river to put on a good face."

Second, she will no longer have to put on a good face as first lady.

It ruined the party for him, though he put on a good face.

She'd put on a good face when she was in public, then come back here and go into a funk.

It was cold and icy, but they were putting on a good face.

But, regardless of how she felt, she had to put on a good face.

For years gardeners have put on a good face for neighbors.

"I'll call Denis from the hospital, ask him to join me there, so we can put on a good face for the media.

Footsteps approached down the hallway-his mother, probably, telling him to put on a good face and suffer in public along with her.

"It's a good teaching case," Laurie said, trying to put on a good face before moving on to her table.

I thought people were just joking with me, and lying to me, and putting on a good face.

She says she tries to put on a good face for her daughters, saying that her hope will not die.

"He was putting on a good face."

Urban gardening shares with suburban gardening the idea of putting on a good face, especially to help increase property value.

It was a sunny day at Shea Stadium yesterday and inside the Mets put on a good face.

She must put on a good face for them, impress them, so that they would see that Valdemar was worth aiding.

My parents' reaction was predictable: they fell apart, then they put on a good face, and then they took me to Disneyland.

A little of the day's brightness vanished for Rae, but she put on a good face for Nancy who cheerily insisted that everything would turn out right enough.

Come on, Vittorio, you and Fra Diamonte and I will pray, but for your mother put on a good face."

"Terry Malloy has testified against the longshore Mafia, and the pressure is on to put on a good face and make sure everybody has a job.

There's something about the way they're going about it now, with the convention coming and the Governor's desire to put on a good face, that makes me think they might succeed."

And since there was nothing else for it than to put on a good face and behave nicely to each other, Cicero and Clodius proceeded to do so.

"It forces you to come and put on a good face," said Charles M. Oberly 3d, the state Attorney General, a Democrat who was not running this year.

The hotel's general manager, Christopher Knable, said that even though the hotel would not reopen until Friday, he wanted it to "put on a good face for Monday's bell."

"I hear they're putting on a good face, but they're making no significant progress," said Mark Gordon, the producer of "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Patriot."