Sentence examples for in the face of things from inspiring English sources

We said how strange it was that, in the face of things like these, there should be a popular notion that the Germans hadn't any sense of humour.

In later stories, she asserts her honor, in the face of things that happen which could be read as shaming her.

Writers have produced great work in the face of things far more stressful than the school run: being shot at, in the case of Wilfred Owen; being banged up in jail, in the case of Cervantes or John Bunyan.

His life story has been one of unrelenting optimism even in the face of things such as an infidelity scandal that would have derailed the careers of other famous faces.

But when I look at Kids Today, I see more resourcefulness, and a greater reservoir of irony, in the face of things that trouble me than I would have feared.

Another characteristic of living things that Mita is copying is a concept called "homeostasis," which is just a fancy word for the fact that organisms are good at maintaining their state of being, even in the face of things that would perturb them, like an injury or a change in temperature.

They say that it reflects a culture in which the face of things often attracts more fussing than the soul of them and that it's an offshoot of a political system dependent on impressions, atmospherics, half-truths.

Already he has quietly cancelled a promise to build an oil refinery in Nicaragua.On the face of things, Russia looks better placed than its two friends to resist shocks; before the turmoil, it had built up the world's third-biggest stash of currency, at more than $500 billion.

But since oil revenues pay for around half of the government's budget, this has not prevented cuts in welfare spending.On the face of things, the recent recovery in the price of oil to around $70 a barrel should enable Mr Chávez to muddle through without radical shifts in policy.

The parachuting in of Perrino seems, on the face of things, to be a tone deaf decision by the producers; or Caesars; or whoever made it.

For even conservative estimates suggest there is one chance in four that it will be destroyed in a collision during that period.On the face of things, all this consideration of the problem is good.