Sentence examples for barefaced from inspiring English sources

But its tone of rational urgency, its playfulness and barefaced cheek, must have loosened a few corset hooks-and-eyes over the years.

Scott Clayton, claims fraud and investigations manager, said that to claim the chef had exhibited barefaced cheek by staging the fall "feels like an understatement".

He describes the difficulty of rendering the crowiness of a crow, 'the barefaced, bandit thing... the macabre pantomime ghoulishness and the undertaker sleekness... the unkillable biological optimism'.

For all of the editors' labors, the reception from independent scholars was not flattering; the official history explained that, once Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward drove the nation into famine, he "worked hard to correct" the mistakes, a judgment that a Dutch scholar called a "barefaced lie".

"I would imagine there's a little bit of discomfort" with the prospect of talking business barefaced or in a bathrobe, she said.

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She spent 15 hours on Sunday at a Moscow polling station, where she witnessed barefaced fraud by the station's head and tried to lodge a formal complaint.

The study's 25 female subjects, aged 20 to 50 and white, African-American and Hispanic, were photographed barefaced and in three looks that researchers called natural, professional and glamorous.

But peel back the spangles and special effects, and the Beyoncé Knowles on display in "Life Is But a Dream," to have its premiere Saturday at 9 p.m. on HBO, is subdued, barefaced and emotionally raw.

MARION COTILLARD was barefaced and sleepy eyed.

Fake-random, because for all the air of careless disruption – the models were barefaced and stomped past the audience at a speed that made it tricky to see the clothes – every piece at Vetements is highly considered and comes with a price tag to reflect this.