Façadism, with its emphasis on show and its disregard for authenticity, is very much a postmodern approach.

In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.

1.2. Wherein haſt thou loved us? or, which is worſe, deſpiſe God himſelf; turn back upon the Mercie-ſeat, grow very negligent, cold and careleſs in the Worſhip of God: nay many times the minde is efferated and grown bruitiſh and inſolent both towards God and man[…]

He's the kind of person whose trials are writ in water; but even he has waited by an unringing telephone, even he has futilely hoped, even he carries memories that continue to smart.