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outface
verb
To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down
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Until bigwigs in Brussels and Washington are ready to outface their cosseted farmers, Mr Zoellick's tariff-cutting plan will go nowhere.
The bank has friends in finance, the press and parliament, but probably too few to outface a determined Mr Kohl even if Hans Tietmeyer, the bank's president, says he may resign.In this section On track Those mutinous French Who's for prime minister?
True, their thin shade is negligible, But then again there is not that tragic autumnal Casting-off of leaves to outface annually.
One had to reflect, however, that if Berlin wants to outface Cannes, this is the way to do it.
Self-styled "traditionalist" Anglicans and the Curia both emphasise ancient authority in their efforts to outface the inexorable realities of modern life, which some others might style new workings of the Holy Spirit.
Sontag's determination to outface death became part of her legend.
Look at him and Frances de la Tour trying to outface each other: it's like watching an ant and a cobra going head to head.
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He outfaces them, just as he outfaced Sigmund Freud, who spent three weeks in 1913 trying to figure out the sculpture's emotional effect.
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