Sentence examples for forbidding face from inspiring English sources

It is both a fortress and a palace, thrusting a grim, forbidding face outward and an ornamented countenance inward.

Dick Deadeye, based on a character in "Woman's Gratitude" (1869), represents another of Gilbert's favorite (and semi-autobiographical) satiric themes: the misshapen misanthrope whose forbidding "face and form" makes him unpopular although he represents the voice of reason and common sense.

Just as with the passage of a law forbidding face coverings in public, effectively banning the burka (complete covering of the body, including the eyes) or niqab (covering all but the eyes) in public spaces, commentators have scorned the ban as men behaving badly and forcing women to conform to their ideals.

I make my guilty "oh sorry I had no idea that photographing nude strangers in a supermarket was forbidden" face and rush nakedly out the exit.

But one of the minister's biggest controversies came while defending a 2011 policy that forbids face-coverings during citizenship ceremonies a.k.a. the niqab ban— that was being challenged by a Pakistani woman hoping to get her Canadian citizenship.

"She took that grim forbidding aristocratic face off English gardening, and with her charm and her writings, gave it a friendly, domesticated face".

Mr. Messner met with worldwide acclaim when he returned, not only for being the first to climb the forbidding southern face of Nanga Parbat but also for being the first to "traverse" the mountain -- to go up one side and down another.

Face-sitting is forbidden but face-fucking is A-OK.

A1 Problems for Nuclear Sensors Experts on nuclear terrorism say that even the latest detection technologies face forbidding odds.

Fiddling with a dumpy black cell phone, he looked up, smiling, and asked, "How did you recognize me?" Falafel is typically unshaven, but the stubble is not forbidding, and his face easily fills with warmth.

In an interview for this article, Richard Drayton, a professor of history at King's College, London, said that bypassing Charles would face forbidding obstacles, including "an act of Parliament, and probably a decision by Charles himself to abdicate".