Sentence examples for away in the face from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Ong chooses to present Ah Na's life as a slight, weightless fairy tale, whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism.

Productivity languished, and American industry was fading away in the face of foreign competition.

Gilbert was the colored officer in Korea who ran away in the face of the enemy.

"I think that barrier falls away in the face of the right connections," she told me.

But Rubin's game fell away in the face of a barrage of searing shots from Clijsters.

Then it backed away in the face of strong opposition from Congress and the European Union.

The agency made this push back in 2014, but tucked the idea away in the face of backlash.

It's hard to take that away even in the face of something scary and seemingly insurmountable".

The fact is, the thought of all those memos and reports and manuals made Dewey anxious, and that anxiety has never really gone away, even in the face of evidence that paper is no longer something to be anxious about.

People tend to get more aware, policies and practices change, and important issues have a nagging habit of not going away, even in the face of the most obtuse, benign neglect.

For this he was convicted of 'shamefully casting away his weapon in the face of the enemy'.