Sentence examples for took at face value from inspiring English sources

He added: "I took at face value that they were truly committed to change.

One is a Swiftian essay in favour of torture (which some serious-minded lefties took at face value).

Alan C. Greenberg was one of the dupes: he "took at face value the ratings on the bonds," he writes.

If you took at face value Erik Satie's conceit that his piano piece "Vexations" could be played eight hundred and forty times in succession?

She does not deserve to be demonised for a remark that the overcautious masses took at face value because she is, like generations of evil western imperialists, white.

The ship's captain, Patrick Campbell, was a capricious authoritarian, who took at face value allegations that some of his onboard reformers were set on fomenting mutiny.

Nothing should be taken at face value".

Can this be taken at face value?

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

Those threats should be taken at face value.

For MSF, this is difficult to take at face value.