Sentence examples for brave faced from inspiring English sources

Look at the photographs: the brilliant, smiling faces of the young recruits; the dignified surety of the commanders; the brave faced mothers and wives waving handkerchiefs of farewell.

Brave faces fell.

They had to keep up a "brave" face for their children and they only surrendered to crying when they were alone.

He brave-faced the fact that he will break his own targets on debt and welfare spending and did his utmost to sprinkle around what little money he could – splashing around small Treasury giveaways on cathedrals and sports lessons and sprinkling cash in Faslane and Teeside and East Anglia – but it was thin stuff.

The brave face, the sudden collapse.

Negotiators put on a brave face.

BIL put a brave face on the news.

THEY put a brave face on it in Catalonia.

EUROPEAN commissioners often have to put on a brave face.

Ministers are putting a brave face on things.

BOTH sides put a brave face on things in Ankara.