Sentence examples for actions at face value from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Krause is not speaking, he manages to look thoughtful and enigmatic — viewers never quite know whether to take his words or actions at face value.

It's a defining mark of modernity not to take actions at face value but to consider them in relation to origins and personal histories, and even to take their connection to individual backstories as emotionally and morally primary.

This caused the Big Green groups to take Obama's actions at face value and become complacently happy to celebrate their short-lived "victories".

They were taking him at face value, and that action lost us years of what could have been treatment time.

Instead of taking the other party at face value, try to identify the motivations underlying her actions, recommends Lawrence Susskind in his book Good for You, Great for Me: Finding the Trading Zone and Winning at Win-Win Negotiations (PublicAffairs, 2014).

He may be acting at face value.

Nothing should be taken at face value".

Take it at face value.

"We took it all at face value".

At face value, their replies were curious.

Don't take things at face value".