face value

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.

Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.

With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.