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In the face of.
If people act in the face of something, they do it despite it or when threatened by it.
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She laughed and sang and smiled in the face of angry crowds.
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I prided myself on smiling in the face of sexist remarks.
We are adept at smiling in the face of difficulty and realising that it's not all about us.
This is a party that will smile in the face of a Colin Powell while waving Confederate flags behind his back.
If Alain voices Kundera's oedipal libido, Ramon loudhails his raison d'ecrire: smiling in the face of life's vagaries, contradictions and tragedies.
"Or even, is he working hard enough to deliver results?" There has been a good deal of discussion of his purchase of what he called a thirdhand Porsche, with the president saying he hoped people would understand that it helped him "to smile in the face of the many problems that have been left for me to deal with".
However, they are best regarded as Martins' uplifting attempt to smile in the face of life's blows and to fashion a timeless monument from her humble dwelling.
"How can you smile in the face of all this?" the reporter asked them, incredulous.
I had the feeling Maureen was snickering devilishly, defiantly -- I had to smile in the face of this.
A lot of holiday get-togethers can amount to smiling in the face of how we really feel.
"Sometimes it's more important to smile than to shout" - Saffiyah Khan went viral for smiling in the face of the EDL pic.twitter.com/PVzBaQFtlS.
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