Sentence examples for accepts at face value from inspiring English sources

McCullough mostly accepts at face value Adams's repeated protestations that he detested the fakery of political life.

One reason the left plays down the growing skills-based gap is that it accepts at face value the conservative claim that educational failure is its root cause.

Mr. Robertson also accepts at face value the ethereal Brucknerian brass band central to all the symphonies; here it was encouraged to blast away.

Woodward accepts at face value Greenspan's alibi: "Keating hadn't done anything wrong at that point, or if he had, it wasn't detectable".

The people Ms. de la Torre sends out all present her with the necessary documents, which she accepts at face value.

If one accepts at face value the Scottish government's insistence that the release of a dying man was simply a humanitarian decision, there is the embarrassment that he turned out not to be dying so quickly as doctors had predicted.

To him the world is a puzzle that only fools accept at face value.

Mr. Ramirez contends that his rationale should be accepted at face value.

I have to accept at face value the sincerity of his apology.

"Nothing can be accepted at face value or in words alone," he said.

But Lazarus's factual assertions cannot always be accepted at face value.