The façade proclaims success, but behind it the building dwindles to nothing.
How about trying something new and proclaiming success after the first 100 days?
Because the rest of the talks had progressed well, the two sides had already drafted a joint communique proclaiming success.
When Hanoi handed back 591 prisoners,the Nixon Administration proclaimed success.
Everything he'd worked for, the action he'd been proposing for three years... Ritter was proclaiming success.
Official Soviet propaganda proclaimed much success in these rites tearing people away from the church, however, this may not have been truthful.
These set-asides increase farmers' cost-of-production - but as long as crop prices increase, policymakers proclaim success.
New York was among the first states to try the new technology, and as it proclaimed success against welfare cheats, other states followed.
A Japanese official even proclaimed success because there was "no Japan-bashing."
The Liberals proclaimed success in forging an egalitarian, antimonopoly land policy.