Sentences with phrase «at face value simply»

The text may be presented to its readers at face value simply as the literary structure of a linguistic code (langue), but its otherness includes an authorially originated speech performance (parole).

There's much to be said for being one of the oldest people in the room and the credibility you receive at face value simply for not being young.

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To all of you who keep claiming this was about «not wanting to lose to a girl»: Why can't we simply take what this kid said at face value?

For some time it has been obvious in the academic world that the scriptural texts can not simply be taken at face value but presuppose a thought world that is alien to...

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

There are tons of words within James 1 and 2 which evidence that James is speaking to folks as if to take their faith at face value and is simply urging them to get to work.

All the commentaries embraced the all - too - popularized belief that James is questioning faith in the absence of works, when in reality he is questioning the absence of works in his audience's walk given their faith or having taken their faith at face value, and is simply urging them to «get to work», (Eph 2:10).

If God doesn't go «zap» then we can not simply accept all the miracle stories as true at face value.

Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother's utterances with the fullest and most over-sensitive interpretation of the tone and the context of the suspected intention.

If anyone is silly enough to take anything that Wenger says at face value then you have been in a coma for the better part of 10 years or simply a season ticket holder that gladly renews each year in May when the talking heads from corporate Arsenal start their usual blather about the transfer market and the inevitable success that lies ahead... stop talking Wenger and start doing the very things you and the rest of the suits keep spewing each and every year... just imagine how amazing this squad would be if we even did half the things that Gazidis claimed we would or if Wenger found a way to sign even a third of the players he said he could... that's exactly what Arsenal has become a «would have» «could have» club

These different definitions mean that we can not simply accept at face value the authors» (or media's) headline conclusions.

Although local election and general election results tend to be quite similar to begin with (the two are 90 % correlated) a statistical prediction might offer a better indicator of what is likely to happen in the future then simply taking the results at face value.

Taken at face value, The Post is simply an earnest argument about lots of timely things.

All in all, I'd say the incomparable Angelina Jolie has quite the Oscar contender on her hands if we're simply looking at current face value.

There isn't a moment, either, when Weiner comes clean about his duplicitous acts or admits some sort of deep character flaw: He simply expects you to take him at face value and let his work — not his personal dalliances — define him.

Nevertheless, they are often accepted at face value by the media, which — simply by passing them along for public consumption — gives these assertions unwarranted credibility.

This is a very good Business Class fare if you simply take it at face value but, when you take a look at how many redeemable miles you can earn thanks to the ongoing promotion, it makes the fare that much better.

That said, if you don't compare these two events, and simply take it at face value as a cool addition to the Downtown Vegas scene, I do think it has it's own particular charm and place in the Downtown landscape.

Procedural generation taken at its face value, is simply the use of computing procedures to magnify the input of an artist.»

«We were simply operating within the already given theme of «Made in Los Angeles» — to take that at face value and to understand that within that, that announces a certain kind of heterogenic activity in the locale,» said Walker, director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art museum in Chicago.

The relationship between culture and cognition is surely vastly complicated, but Corner seems to think that complexity can be simply and easily ruled out with just a single questionnaire, and the results taken at face value.

The conceit — in all senses of the word — being that the environmentalist simply takes «science» at face value, whereas those he points his fingers at refuse to see the science because they are somehow blinded by «ideology».

So, we can't simply take the raw data at face value.

It would quite simply be wrong to assume that the public always takes statements of opinion at face value.

The true Gable case was simply too mundane for the press to accept at face value in 1989.

So many people simply look at a ticket at face value without considering how much their insurance will go up.

While most of the world simply takes what everyone else says at face value, there's always been a da...

And while Apple's intentions seem to be altruistic at face value, there are lingering suspicions, based on timing and prolonged (and unaddressed) conspiracy theories, that Apple's goal here is to simply make iPhone owners upgrade on a more regular basis.

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