Sentence examples for collective face from inspiring English sources

It's the collective face of the disease".

The look on their collective face at the exact moment the penny drops is priceless.

However, as the collective face of the new signorial state, petty officials also drew attention to structural contradictions in these problematic regimes.

It is possible that they will fall flat on their collective face, especially since most successful contractors offered to deliver for huge discounts.

To ensure that a large audience at the Rose Theater kept any hint of a smile off its collective face, there was the F minor Quintet for Piano and Strings after intermission, with the pianist Gilbert Kalish.

It's no surprise that there is steadily building up a complete and utterly bamboozled look of awed incomprehension on the public's collective face about what on earth politicians mean by what they're saying.

The Phillies could follow the 2002 Mets and fall flat on their collective faces, but they have a chance to contend.

As three members of the Russian punk collective faced judgment in a Moscow court Friday on hooliganism charges, their supporters in more than 60 cities worldwide were gathering for demonstrations to mark Global Pussy Riot Day.

Come Monday morning we could be sitting here with egg on our collective faces, as Keisha Castle Hughes parades her best actress Oscar and Lord of the Rings walks away with nothing.

"The egg on the judges' collective faces," wrote Paul Lukacs in his "American Vintage" (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), "came from their inability to discern what until then everyone had assumed was obvious -- namely that great French wines tasted better than other wines because they tasted, well, French".

"I didn't even know I was the most successful British Olympian until a journalist told me," Redgrave has said, pancaking our collective faces with a teetering cardboard plate loaded with his own extreme humility – and also stating as fact something that is simply contention.