Sentence examples for decent face from inspiring English sources

Yunior was fourteen and had an I.Q. that would have broken you in two but he would have traded it in for a halfway decent face in a second.

It's really hard to find decent face paint these days.

But it appears that all Mr Brown required before a cave-in was a decent, face-saving interval.In this section Thriller!

On the face of it, a developer would have a decent case.

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, urged all three senior executives to "do the decent thing" and face MPs.

Frazier, wrote Mailer, was "twice as black as Clay and half as handsome," with "the rugged decent life-worked face of a man who had labored in the pits all his life".

"A good British boxer who's not really had many decent opponents to face during their prime, and wants to be seen to beat a big name who was once one of boxing's best ever.

His party has fractured, thanks to the intervention six weeks ago, as a challenger from within, of Simba Makoni, a former finance minister whom many of Zimbabwe's black and shrinking white professional middle class see as the decent and competent face of ZANU-PF.So a bitter triangular contest has broken out.

Heinrich Himmler, in his notorious speech to SS officers in Poznan in 1943, congratulated them on remaining "decent" in the face of a mountain of corpses, adding: "This is a glorious page in our history which has never been written and never will be written".

Rachel Springall at financial data provider Moneyfacts says: "It's shocking that some banks are slashing rates well above and beyond the base rate cut of 0.25%, and it leaves savers who are hoping for a decent return to face a brick wall of disappointment".

This ability to be decent in the face of the horrors and temptations present all around us is humanity's superpower, the superpower of each of us.