Sentence examples for barely a face from inspiring English sources

Myers's portraits are of British people there is barely a face here that could not have confronted William the Conqueror's armies in 1066 at a moment when the British government, with the support of the electorate, had embarked upon an effort to diminish the country's island separation in favor of a more cosmopolitan, interconnected ideal.

Smith, highly experienced and highly regarded, a BBC man for decades and thus accustomed to flak, barely moves a face muscle, coughs every now and then, and says much less, but enough to put up a decent point by point defence.

Today there is barely a white face among the 117 students.

She is also barely a recognizable face in Canada, which may explain why she allowed herself the luxury of some spontaneous streetside conversation, forgetting that a film festival subverts the normal laws governing her fame in this part of the world.

The orchestra's new president and chief executive, Allison Vulgamore, on the job for barely a month, faced the board formally for the first time on Monday at a meeting.

The sun sparkled on what he barely recognized as a face.

In little over three short weeks, Clegg has gone from a face barely recognised outside the Westminster village to a phenomenon.

A face barely starts to emerge, then disappears, then slowly reappears in the mercurial circle, which finally comes to rest as a coin imprinted with the profile of a king.

SMG – her strange little teardrop of a face barely changed in the years since we best knew her – plays twins: bad girl Bridget, a recovering addict with slightly bad hair (aka SkankBuffy), and good, Grace Kellyish Siobhan (aka ChignonBuffy).

The presence of a face barely budged the percentages when it came to brand awareness, favorability and purchase intent; and cluttered ads actually did better than uncluttered ads, albeit marginally, in these same categories.

It made me think of a baby's instinct for reading two dots and a dash as a face barely before its eyes can focus, a fundamental anthropomorphism upon which art has always thrived; and of the curious, often theatrical way in which policemen declare their profession by eyeing the world.