Sentence examples for mere face from inspiring English sources

I didn't want to shell out that much for a mere face cream, so I didn't fill the prescription.

While the "right to exclude" is doubtless, as petitioners assert, "one of the most essential sticks in the bundle of rights that are commonly characterized as property," Kaiser Aetna v. United States, 444 U.S. 164, 176 (1979), we do not find that right to have been taken from petitioners on the mere face of the Escondido ordinance.

For there the Court thought that the testimony of Appel was 'on its mere face, and without inquiring collaterally * * * not a bona fide effort to answer the questions at all.' In the instant case there was collateral inquiry; the testimony of other witnesses was invoked to convince the trial judge that petitioner was a perjurer.

Nevertheless, the person who hears strange voices and yet answers the item "false" clearly is responding to something the answer still is a reflection of personality, even though it may not be the aspect of personality to which the item seems to refer; thus, careful study of responses beyond their mere face validity often proves to be profitable.

Perhaps that's our human intuition an evolved sense that there's more to a situation than the mere face of it.

It's hard to know, for this transformation will require major reconstructive surgery to economies at home and abroad, compared to which health care reform is a mere face lift.

But more than mere face-saving, a new agreement would save the fund and other international financial institutions from a default on money Argentina owes them, arguably more serious than the one suffered last year by private bondholders.

For almost the first time in the vast scholarly literature on the topic, they are complicated individuals who come alive, rather than set-piece proletarian heroes or mere faces in the "mob" or "rabble" of right-wing imagination.

Further research will be necessary to determine, if it is possible to adjust the components of a blended learning approach in this context to achieve also an improvement of practical skills compared to mere face-to-face teaching.

From that point on, concerts were the tip of the iceberg, the superstructure, the mere public face and shining aftermath of elaborate planning.

That great smile was no mere game face, donned to please the paying customers: it told the truth about the man who wore it.