Sentence examples similar to took at face face from inspiring English sources

The crucial thing about "Higher Ground" is that it takes at face value the faces, many bearded, almost all beatific, that the camera surveys — quite an achievement, given Hollywood's woeful record in the dramatizing of faith.

Nothing should be taken at face value".

Can this be taken at face value?

This should not be taken at face value.

Nothing, it sometimes seems, can be taken at face value.

These assumptions cannot be taken at face value.

Yet none of this can be taken at face value.

But in northwest Georgia it was taken at face value.

But that's hard to take at face value.

But they shouldn't be taken at face value, either.

Taken at face value, this suggestion is at best misguided.