Sentence examples for bare in the face of from inspiring English sources

He represented the modern action hero, with all his sensitivities laid bare in the face of tragedy.

There is also good evidence that people were increasingly downgrading their cover to the bare necessity in the face of rising premiums, which had almost doubled since 2002, he says.

She and a group of elderly female activists held a bare bottom protest in the face of police violence and achieved all three of their aims.

However, the executive orders will have only limited impact in comparison with legislative action, and his speech laid bare how powerless Obama is in the face of intransigence from the Republican-controlled House.

These seed mixtures are made up primarily of annuals, which will bloom (and die) the summer the area is seeded, assuming the seeds land on bare soil and germinate and grow in the face of stiff competition from weeds.

The airline is seeking to reinvent its business model in the face of bare-knuckled competition from its low-cost rival, Ryanair, and pushing ahead with an aggressive turnaround program that seeks to trim its work force by 20 percent and cut at least 100 million euros, or $141 million, in costs by the end of the year.

A bare arm covers the face of a woman watching TV.

But this author's gift for bare-bones plotting becomes hard to appreciate in the face of the book's crudeness and sadism.

Conversely, in the face of economic crises in 2008 and 2011, U.S. and European governments have done only the bare minimum necessary to avert a complete meltdown.

The Treasury's approach in the face of the tragic toll of air pollution in this country was to oppose anything but the bare minimum as too expensive.

The psychologist and TV presenter Anthony Clare listed Bare-faced Messiah in The Times as one of his books of the year for 1987, commenting that it was "a testament to the gullibility of man in the face of the charlatanry of Scientology", while the film and literary critic Tom Hutchinson complimented Miller for "fascinatingly recount[ing]" what he described as Hubbard's "bizarre career".