face value

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• Maybe it was the lifelong oh-so-mistaken tendency to take him at face value, to see just his exterior gawk and the commonplace physique, the failure to divine his internals.

• Evidently, we should not take Facebook’s commitment to stop hate at face value.

• If you take the rates at face value, you’d expect one once every 50 years or so.

• I think fans and people outside the industry took the press release at face value but people inside the industry heard pretty quickly what had really happened.

• So even if we take links at face value, they’re pretty deeply entwined with brand.

• In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.

• Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

• They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence.

• They are to face oppression with humble persistence and absolute conviction.

• She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.

• It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.

• Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.

• A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.